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.)

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.

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.

Serious "ick" factor ahead at the link:

Baboon eats baby in front of mom

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