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Now <i>These</i> Are Small Robots 2003.06.11.23:11

It's small enough to "turn on a dime and park on a nickel," or so say the inventors of a 1cm-tall machine that lays claim to being the world's smallest robot. Make that the smallest man-made robot, for the device developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., would be a Gulliver in the world of the Lilliputian "machines" operating inside living cells.

(Appropriated from Warren Ellis' blog.)

# [/tech]

Special-Effects Whiz Gets Hollywood Star 2003.06.11.23:00

Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion animation master who created legions of movie monsters and aliens, now has earthly evidence of his achievements: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I honestly cannot think of a more deserving icon of visual effects. Congratulations are due, and I plan on finding and photographing the star the next time I go down to SoCal.

# [/entertainment/movies]

Woody Allen Becomes Pitch Man for France 2003.06.11.22:32

Film director Woody Allen, known for his fierce devotion to New York, is working as a pitch man for France, urging Americans to eat french fries, to French kiss and travel to the European nation.

Ummm, the French do understand that most of us here don't take him seriously anymore, right? That he's more of a joke punch-line that even they are? And really, the last thing I want to see or hear is a man who married his pseudo-stepdaughter encouraging the rest of us to French kiss.

# [/entertainment]

Baboon Eats Baby 2003.06.11.10:19

(And herein introduces a new topic group, for twisted shit that I probably shouldn't be propagating to other eyes.)

Serious "ick" factor ahead at the link:

Baboon eats baby in front of mom

(Only click if you really want to read more)

(more...)

# [/twisted]


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