5 hot and sexy pics of La Miu Lingerie Girls

I've been told that new Japanese lingerie company La Miu sells really nice lingerie. Its web store isn't ready yet but fortunately for us, we have these lovely models to wear the lingerie for us.

Time-lapse videos of massive change on Earth

Wired Science have made several videos, compiled from images posted on NASA’s Earth Observatory, of some of the most impressive conquests of man over environment. Above video shows the urbanization of Dubai.

Carpet doubles as an Airplane Kit

This has to be the most innovative carpet ever. In it's original form, the JU87-G STUKA carpet looks like a giant plastic aircraft model kit. Cut out the various pieces of the carpet, assemble them and you'll have a model of a German dive bomber. Hopefully it comes with instructions.

Japanese Hulk Comic

B&W scans of Haruku: Monsutaa Komiku which means Hulk: Monster Comic. According to David Brothers at 4thletter!, the comic originally ran in Weekly Bokura Magazine beginning in 1970 and it is about Dr. Araki (Hulk), a survivor of Hiroshima who went to Nevada to work on the gamma bomb.

(via Nerdcore)

Horror novel on toilet paper... only in Japan!

If Koji Suzuki of The Ring fame, has his way, everyone in the world will be reading his horror stories when they go to the toilet. His latest project is Drop, a nine-chapter novella printed on toilet paper! You read, shit, wipe and then flush it down.

Suzi Chua's Stone Paintings

Malaysian artist Suzi Chua specialises in stone painting, a unique form of art where stones are painted with acrylic and transformed into beautiful subjects such as pets, insects, wildlife animals etc. Check out her gallery here.

12 Truck Drivers. 12 Different Views.

Andrey Gordeev created these cool illustrations for a truck trading company's corporate calender. Called Around The World For Twelve Months, the illustrations in the calendar depict the view from a truck driver's perspective. There are 12 different truck drivers from 12 different countries.

Anakin Skywalker Jedi Utility Belt

Now you can be like the famed Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker (before he turned to the Dark Side and became Darth Vader) with this Jedi utility belt which includes a belt, 3 fully functional Jedi pouches and 8 energy/food capsules. Lightsaber not included.

Mocca wants to challenge inSing.com for Singapore's most irritating banner ad

First, it was inSing.com scaring the shit out of Singapore web users with their Nasi Lemak banner ads, now it's Mocca's turn. What's with these assholes? Are they really out to fight for the title of Singapore's most irritating banner ad? Mocca's web banner ad has no "Nasi Lemak!" but it has "Click! Click!" played over and over and over again. Watch the ad in action in the above video. Warning: May give you clickalitis. Click! Click! Argh! Enough click click already, Mocca!

Previously: Nasi Lemak! Nasi Lemak! Nasi Lemak! Enough already inSing.com!

Man-made floating island is a recycled paradise

I've always wanted my very own island and after looking at this amazing floating island, I'm truly inspired. The island is made using 250,000 plastic bottles, bamboo, plywood and lots of sand! Oh, it has a solar-powered waterfall and ponds too.

DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand

It’s small, light, free, green and is super easy to make. The DIY Cardboard Laptop Stand is just brilliant! The best part is you can take it apart and it will go wherever your laptop goes. I want to make one.

Twitter on Paper

Sam Potts has created a free service called Twitter on Paper that generates hand-made one-of-a-kind editions of Twitter tweets. There are two types of tweets you can request. If you select New Tweet, he'll make something up and send it to you. If you request Old Tweet, you can then specify which tweet you'd like.

A fanny pack for your head

Cap-sac is a cap that has a built in fanny pack. Great for those of you who want to keep stuff in your head. Get it? Comes in 8 different exciting colours.

(Thanks zinc)

Watch the first 5 minutes of Blood: The Last Vampire

Watch the first 5 minutes of Jun Ji Hyun's latest film (her first in English!), Blood: The Last Vampire, courtesy of the folks from Yahoo Japan (video above). Jun under her English name Gianna Jun, plays Saya, a sword-wielding girl hunting down supernatural creatures. The movie is based on the hit anime film of the same name. Jun Ji Hyun was in Singapore recently to promote Blood the Last Vampire. Watch her being interviewed by Channel News Asia here and view some photos of her at Bugis here. Blood: The Last Vampire will open in Singapore on 4th June.

Kiss Your Face Make-up Kit

Kiss, kiss, kiss your face and get your act together! A 1978 TV advertisement (video above) for Kiss Your Face Make-up Kit. It has everything you need to make you look like a member of one of the most iconic and unique rock bands, Kiss.

Tokyo film camera users show off their cameras

I love looking at other people's cameras especially those film ones so it's timely that I came across Tokyo Camera Style. Dude behind the photoblog says, "People who shoot film simply do because they choose to. When I meet them out on the streets, I ask to photograph their camera."

(via Mefi)

Awesome Game Cartridge Art

Slip from Hush Monkey Studios takes old game cartridges and turns them into works of art! First, he draws the images of the game characters, then cuts them out and pastes them onto the cartridges. The images are layered to give a more pop-out effect.

(via Nerdcore, Eayz)

Donkey Kong Wall Decals

This official Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong wall graphics are movable and reusable decals that are based on the same 8-bit graphics from the NES version of Donkey Kong. You can stick them on the walls of your room to create a bit of 80's gaming nostalgia.

Dude folds paper into amazing pictures

Simon Schubert has an amazing collection of pictures that look like they were drawn or painted but you may be surprised to know that they were created by making hundreds of tiny folds in paper! Schubert spends a week to create each picture and has spent two years to perfect his unique art of folding paper.

Knitted Star Trek Meerkats

Niftyknits knits cute meerkats that are partially filled with polypropylene beads. You can buy a mob of Daddy, Mummy and Baby meerkats or if you prefer something more sci-fi, then her new Star Trek meerkats are just for you. They wear original series Star Trek sweaters!

(via Boing Boing)

Can a Jedi lightsaber cut through Superman? Short Answer: No

I love Yahoo Answers, only because they have tons of stupid questions such as "Can a Jedi lightsaber cut through Superman?" and great answers from people who really know their stuff. From Yahoo Answers:

RED LIGHTSABERS
Superman receives his power from the radiation of our yellow sun, and is weakened when exposed to radiation from a red sun. It is possible that a sith lightsaber, being red, might have similar properties.

Even so, Superboy Prime was defeated after being plunged through Krypton's red sun - which weakened him, but did not destroy him. Therefore, a red lightsaber which hypothetically had the same properties as a red star should have a similar effect, i.e. it would injure him, but not "cut" him, much less cut through him.

FORCE OF IMPACT
If Superman were rendered vulnerable by a lightsaber, it would likely create a momentary weakness in that spot, allowing the physical impact to cause damage. However, lightsaber blades, being made of plasma, presumably have a very small mass. Therefore, the force of the impact would be negligible.

In short, hitting Superman with a red lightsaber is like hitting a normal human with a wet noodle.

Microsoft Support tells us to keep moving the mouse!

The problem: When you try to return data from Microsoft Query 97 to a Microsoft Excel 97 worksheet, the spinning globe icon (which signifies that a query is processing) may appear for a long time, and then the query returns no data to your worksheet.

So what do you do? Well, you go to Microsoft's online support to get some answer of course and you come across a method (see Method 2) to work around the problem. Ok. Are you ready for the solution? Here it is: If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel.

Keep moving your mouse pointer! Brilliant! Or is this the worst workaround ever? Apparently, according to some folks at Reddit who has experienced the miracle of the moving mouse, it is indeed a valid workaround for various software products, not just Microsoft.

(Thanks GeekGod)

Previously: Microsoft names research project Cibai, women all over the world feels liberated!

100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

Bet you didn't think it was possible to fit the 100 greatest movie lines into 200 seconds aye. The guys from Liquid Generation have got the video (watch it above) to prove you wrong. Hasta la vista, baby!

Is Mediacorp humiliating local actors in its new Just for Laughs TV show?

Brendon Fernandez, a Singaporean actor was unhappy with the tactics used by Mediacorp to lure local actors to "star" in its Asian version of Just For Laughs. He says, "Mediacorp has been calling up actors and making appointments with them to attend an audition at Mediacorp for an English-language project which has been described as a still in development drama-dy. This is in fact completely disingenuous."

He describes the fake audition process, "In the account that I heard from an actor who attended the audition on 25 May 2009, the waiting time was in excess of an hour and a half past the scheduled appointment time. When the auditionee is finally ushered into the area in which the audition is supposed to take place, he or she is given several forms to fill out. The area is reported to resemble a badly-constructed mock up of a tv-set. The auditionee will be left alone in the room."

"After some time has passed, the auditionee will hear a knock that appears to come from inside the wardrobe that is on the set. There will also be a voice of someone claiming to be locked in the wardrobe, asking the auditionee to let them out. When the auditionee opens the wardrobe, it will be empty. The crew then bursts out from hiding and shouts: Surprise! You’re on Just For Laughs- Gags!"

Brandon feels that what Mediacorp did was humiliating to the actors. "I was saddened and angered to learn that this is how Mediacorp treats working actors today," he says. "This was a deliberately concocted scheme to lure professional actors into a humiliating trap. The people who attended devoted their time and their skills in preparation for what they believed to be an audition for a role in a professional TV series. Some may have given up other opportunities for work in order to attend. These actors responded in good faith to what they thought was an opportunity for work, and they were treated abysmally."

Shocking pics of wild party in Kuala Lumpur!

Our friends up north in KL sure knows how to party man, judging from these pics that have been circulating all over the internet. I got them from an email with the subject: "The wild party in KL Action in Bangsar Mulu Club (KL)." Some party there alright. Can anyone tell me what is this about? And why am I not invited huh?

Check out the 25 shocking pics here which I tried my very best to censor. Sorry, got kids reading this blog, mind you.

The Internet in 1969 vs now: No difference. Husbands still have to pay for wives' expenditures.

This 1969 video imagines how the internet would look like. It's amazing that the things mentioned in the video are all available now in one form or another. I like the part when the commentator says "what the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console" and then the husband bites his finger and shakes his head. Poor husbands. Damn internet!

Fan-made Green Lantern movie trailer is pure awesome!

Dude made a two-and-a-half minute trailer for DC’s Green Lantern (video above) using clips and audio from twenty-eight different movies and TV shows including Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, Planet of the Apes, Chronicles of Narnia and Dragonball.

(via Screen Rant)

How to make a credit card bracelet

Don't throw away that expired credit card of yours. You can cut it up into small pieces and use them to make a nice bracelet. Here's how to do it: "Cut the card into your chosen shapes: squares, rectangles, and ovals work best. Try to get at least six pieces out of each card."

Mario and Luigi fight Ghosts with Turnips

You can now print Turnip Murder by concept artist Winona Nelson and hang it in your home. Winona says, "I'm releasing the fullsize, 9"x12" image for free. It's high enough resolution you could have it printed at double the size if you like."

Salt and Pepper Shakers that look like Batteries

They look like regular D size batteries but you can forget about using them to power your electronics. They are actually Salt and Pepper shakers made of stainless steel and glass. I love the power indicators on the sides that show you the amount of salt or pepper that is left in the shakers.

The German Poo-Shelf Toilet

The German Poo-Shelf Toilet lets your shit sits there, mere centimeters away from your ass so that you can enjoy a quiet time with it, admire it or do whatever you want with it before you flush it down to the sewers where it really belongs.

Fun with Ringgit and other currencies

Remember Yusof Yourself? Some dude from Malaysia had nothing to do at work so he grabbed his Ringgit notes and those from other countries and went around his office to take photos of his colleagues with the folded notes covering half their faces. More here.

(Thanks Annie)

Previously: Yusof Yourself by taking a pic of yourself and the Singapore $10 bill

Ikea instructions for hiding your girlfriend's deceased dog

Now you know how to hide your girlfriend's dog when it dies unexpectedly thanks to this Ikea spoof instruction manual. I know. I know. This is just stupid but I like. Hey, it sure beats digging a hole in your backyard.

Where shall I put the spare keys to my house?

Scared of losing the keys to your house? Fear not. There's a better place to keep your spare keys. No, not under the pot of plant! The Mooncode Key Safe is a heavily padlocked metal box that you an use to lock your doors and it keeps your spare key safely inside too. Simply load, lock and leave. Just try not to forget the four digit password.

HTC Touch Pro battery burns dude's jeans

Dude left a spare battery for his HTC Touch Pro in the back pocket of his jeans. Apparently the battery expanded and started a fire in his jeans leaving a huge hole. Very strange. Maybe he could ask HTC for a new pair of jeans.

(Thanks Dizz)

Frozen toads will make a great giant paperweight for your desk

Rob wants to give away some frozen toads for free. Any takers? He writes: "My friend used to catch toads and freeze them for some project he was gonna do. He is now in Haiti and I am left with over 400 frozen toads. Please take them all."

(Thanks Phil)

Transformers Mouse, USB Drive and USB Hub will transform but not roll out

There's more than meets the eye with these transforming mouse, USB Drive and USB Hub by Takara. The two mice transform into Grimlock and Trypticon. The 2GB USB flash memory thumbdrives transform into Ravage and Tigatron while the USB hub transforms into Blaster. Cool!

Carry two digital SLR cameras like a gunslinger

Now here's a good reason to have two digital SLRs. The RS DR-1 Double Strap lets you strap on two DSLRs, one on each hip. It's perfect for long days of shooting and will actually make you look like one of those gunslingers from those old cowboy movies.

(Thanks Mr Big)

Girl's role model is KFC's Colonel Sanders

We all have our own role models that we look up to. For young Jennifer, her role model is none other than the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders! She writes: "I want to run my own business like him. He is old but I am young. He is dead but I am not. He was very popular but I am not popular." Awww, you are now, Jennifer. Larger pic here.

(Thanks stitch09)

Hotbake vending machine makes tasty sandwiches

Samsara stumbled upon this sandwich making vending machine in the carpark of Mount Elizabeth Hospital. Sandwiches not bad, he says. The company behind it, Hotbake 24/7 says the machine can hold up to 140 sandwiches and offer two sandwich varieties at any one time. Two sandwiches can be toasted simultaneously. You can find the machines here.

Washy Washy Clean is a song for hand washing

The Health Promotion Board has a new song called Washy Washy Clean (MP3) for pre-schoolers to help them cultivate the correct hand washing habit. Lyrics (PDF): "We start with washing palm to palm. Between each finger, let us rub. Now the back of the hands, it’s such a simple plan. We washy washy clean, scrub scrub." So catchy I wanna go clean my hands now.

(Thanks Mr Big)

Classic Toho Movie Monster Illustrations

I love this Godzilla vs. Biollante illustration by character designer and kaiju evolutionist Yasushi Torisawa. Go Godzilla! This illustration is one of the many classic Toho movie monster illustrations he did for the summer 2008 edition of Uchusen magazine.

(via Nerdcore)

Fake Shark Attack Wetsuit

Diddo utilize custom inks and unique printing techniques to map original and lifelike textures onto their range of fashionable wetsuits which include one that will make you look as if you've just survived a shark attack.

Playful Toys

Powerpig sure knows how to take really awesome and playful photos of toys. He says, "Ah, toys! I just love 'em; in particular, Star Wars. Here's a collection of pictures I've taken of the toys scattered around the house." His Flickr photoset here.

American Idol Live!

I was covering the American Idol Finale live on my Twitter. For those of you who missed it, here are the tweets:

-Ladies and gentlemen, I can't believe I'm watching TV this early in the morning but this is... American Idol!!!! Live!

-Based on the scoops last night, it looks like Kris Allen will beat Adam Lambert. Don't know why I'm still watching.

-100 million votes last night for both Kris Allen and Adam Lambert.

-Ryan Seacrest is introducing the Idol judges now with very funny snippets of their judging style.

-Adam Lambert and Kris Allen take the stage! Both in all white, very PAP like.

-The American Idol Top 13 sings So What! All of them in all white!

-Last year's American Idol winner David Cook is singing now! Woohoo! I love David Cook!!!!

-This new single sang by David Cook is actually very nice. Love seeing him again on Idol. I was crazy over Cook last year. Glad that he won.

-David Cook is giving up the title tonight. Says both Adam and Kris are great performers.

-It's the Golden Idol Awards time now. Ryan is presenting awards to those Idol contestants who didn't make it.

-Nominees for Outstanding Male. Hahaha! Showing this guy who is singing this terrible rendition of Mad World.

-This is the funny part of the Idol Finale where we can laugh at the past contestants this year that are really really really terrible.

-The winner for Outstanding Male is Nick Mitchell. Remember him?

-Oh my god. he just stripped on stage!! And is singing now.

-It's time for the first duet of the evening. Lil and Queen Latifah!

-Paula Abdul is always looking happy during performances and dances along. I really like to have the drug she's taking.

-Jason Mraz, Anoosh and Alexis doing a threesome on stage now.

-Showing the journey of Kris Allen. It's amazing how this dude grows stronger and stronger throughout the competition.

-Kris Allen is singing a duet with country music star Keith Urban. Both with their guitars.

-Not bad. Actually Kris Allen should consider doing country music. LOL. Or better yet do Gospel songs.

-The 5 female Idols, Alexis, Allison, Jasmine, Lil and Megan are performing now with Fergie!

-Black Eyed Peas takes the stage!

-Golden Idol Awards again. Saluting the contestants who have the best attitude.

-And the Golden Idol goes to Katrina, the bikini clad contestant! Yay! Her bod is stunning! Esp those fake boobs.

-Katrina is wearing her bikini and singing on stage. Wait. Idol judge Cara joins her, with her clothes still on, of course.

-Oh my god. Idol judge Cara just ripped apart her dress after the song to reveal her black bra and panties!!!

-Allison sings Time After Time with Cyndi Lauper. I actually love Allison. Her voice rocks and the red hair!

-I can't believe that I'm seeing Cyndi Lauper on Idol. Sorry, I didn't know she's still around.

-But seriously, that's a very good performance by Cyndi Lauper and Allison.

-Ryan Seacrest is talking to Kris Allen's parents. Dad says thanks to America for voting for his son.

-Now Ryan is talking to Adam Lambert's parents.

-Danny Gokey is singing Hello. Ha! I'm guessing Lionel Ritchie will step out soon.

-And yes, what did I just say? Lionel Ritchie is indeed on stage!!! Joins Danny.

-BTW, no one sings Hello like David Cook. They should make Cook sing it with Lionel.

-Lionel Richie doesn't look like he has aged. Botox? Plastics? Lots of sex?

-Now showing Adam Lambert's journey on Idol. I'm loving Adam more than David Cook. And I really was crazy for David last year.

-Adam Lambert takes the stage. Gosh what is he wearing?!

-Looks like Adam is wearing for some musical. Oh wait. Kiss just joined him on stage. Adam and Kiss. Now that's something!

-Adam actually looks quite good with the crazy Kiss guys. I think he should put on the Kiss face make up.

-Would I pay to see Kris in concert? No. Would I pay to see Adam? Yes. Coz he knows how to entertain n he got the pipes too.

- Guitar legend Carlos Santana is on stage. With his guitar, what else. Matt Giraud sings along. The rest of the guys and girls join in the fun too.

-Hahaha! Steve Martin plays the ukelele. Michael Sarver and Megan both singing. Ooops that's not an ukelele. It's a banjo.

-Steve Martin thinks that he will win Idol tonight. Hahaha! Amazing that he actually has a music album out.

-Ah, the guys wearing nice black suits, tie with white t-shirts, take the stage now. I'm digging Anoosh's face hair.

-Oh my god! It's Rod Steward!!!! He doesn't like the Idols to be sharing the stage with him. Shoos them away. Ha!

-Last Golden Idol of the evening. Nominees for outstanding female. haha! Time to laugh at these poor girls!

-Tatiana won Outstanding Female. Runs up to the stage. Ryan tells her its time for a break. She insists on singing. All staged.

-Adam Lambert and Kris Allen do the Queen number, We Are the Champions with Queen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Hmmm isn't Queen looking for a lead singer? Adam Lambert should fit in very well.

-Kris and Adam on stage, together. Results soon! Simon says both are brilliant, nice people, future is all theirs.

-And the new American Idol is..... Kris Allen! What did I tell you? I was right. My info was 100% spot on!

-They are giving him the new American Idol trophy. So I'm correct. The Anti Gays, Christian fanatics have voted Kris to win.

-The new American Idol Kris Allen sings the very crappy winner's song. Paula doesn't look so happy.

So, Kris Allen is the new American Idol. Does he deserved it? I don't think so. Adam has been the top dog throughout the competition and for him to lose it at the very end is just totally unfair. Anyway, I first broke the news that Kris has won Idol some 13 hours ago on Twitter. Here are some of the interesting tweets last night about that breaking news:

-BREAKING NEWS! I've been told that someone who works for Idol confirms that Kris Allen has won American Idol. Fuck! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-BREAKING! Source confirms that only a couple of tens of thousands votes separate both Kris and Adam. Kris won Idol by a very slim margin.

-BREAKING! Same source also confirms that Kris did lead in previous rounds and that they did not "fake it" by putting Adam near the bottom.

-My source, the "Idol staff" has not replied to my messages. Hopefully he will not get fired for letting me know the result.

-Kris Allen seemed to consistently beat Adam Lambert by that slim margin for the first two hours of voting. http://tinyurl.com/5ap7mj

-Pastor tells everyone to vote for Kris because he is a believer and he comes from a great ministry. WTF! http://tinyurl.com/qvffzv

-Anti Gays, Christian fanatics, Danny Gokey fans are all voting for Kris Allen. No wonder Adam loses by slim margin.

-Don't believe me that Christians are assembling their army to vote for Kris Allen? Here's another pastor rallying. http://tinyurl.com/qutu4y

-First the Christian fanatics tried to take over pro-gay AWARE, now they are taking over Idol to make sure Gaybert doesn't win.

Risk Reinvention Board Game: A Review

It takes nerve. It takes determination. It takes courage. It's the new Risk board game by Hasbro! Risk Reinvention is an updated version to celebrate Risk's 50th anniversary. It features a new look and modernized rules. I had a chance to play the new Risk together and the new Monopoly Deal (thanks to Hasbro) with my mates recently and we had a blast!

Inside the box, you'll find the updated gameboard, a deck of 42 territory cards, all-new playing pieces that include 5 capitals, 15 cities and 5 sets of coloured units, 7 dice, objective cards and instructions. The instructions are a little complicated but just like Monopoly Deal, you'll learn more as you play the game.

There are three ways to play the new Risk: Basic Training, Command Room and World Conquest. Basic Training is a quick and easy way to play and designed as an introductory version of Risk. It is highly advisable to play this version until you are comfortable with the rules, then you can move on to the Command Room and World Conquest versions.



I actually love the new Risk and my mates too. The updated rules are great and allow players to streamline planning and executing strategic military campaigns and increase the rewards of taking risks during each turn. Game time is fast and furious. One can win the game in less than an hour. Like Monopoly Deal, Hasbro has done it again by taking a classic game and actually made it better.

Risk Reinvention is available at all leading toy and departmental stores at an approximate retail price of S$64.90. Is it worth buying? A 100% yes for Risk fans! Other board game lovers should have it in their collection too. More pics here.



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We live in Singapura, the MTV version

This is an old flash video by NCH Animations of the very funny song sang by Hossan Leong back in 2006 at the TalkingCock in Parliament: We, the Citizens event. The song is a classic and the animation is just perfect! "I live in Singapura. It's not perfect living. But at least it's interesting. I live in Singapura. Though it's kind of crazy. We win other country."

(via misskely)

Texas Star Party Night Sky Time-Lapse Video

Breathtaking time lapse video by William Castleman of the night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens. Watching this makes me miss all those wonderful nights I spent under the clear dark skies with my telescope and my fellow astronomy buddies.

(via Mefi)

Muji wall mounted CD player is simplicity at its best

I didn't know Muji makes CD players but now I'm sure glad they do. Take a look at this Muji CD Player. It's so simple, it's beautiful! The CD player is wall mounted, has speakers that are built into the body and to play a disc, just pull the cable.

Silent Hill cosplay is creepier than playing the game

Judy was at an anime convention in Chicago to capture these creepy but stunning shots of Silent Hill cosplayers in action. Silent Hill is a survival horror video game franchise developed and published by Konami.

(via Nerdcore)

DIY Cardboard Speakers

This do-it-yourself speakers kit by Merkury is made with 70% recycled materials, perfect for all you ecologically conscious audiophiles. The cardboard speakers are of the plug and play design and are compatible with any music system. Comes with six colored pencils for decorating the speakers.

Typewriter Sculptures by Jeremy Mayer

Jeremy Mayer has been working with typewriters since 1994. He disassembles them and then reassembles them into full scale, anatomically correct human figures. He does not solder, weld or glue the parts together. Amazing!

Dude has the most flattering blogger profile ever!

There isn't enough words that Kashmiri, a blogger from Pakistan, can use to describe his glory self. Check out his Blogspot profile:

I m cute smart intelligent nice loving caring dashing Adorable Marvelous Attractive Friendly Lovely Attitude faithful ambitious sensitive silent very good in hide emotions love to sleep full of good qualities Responsible Exciting to be Around Nice Always Dependable Smiles a Lot Friendly Personality .Outstanding Really Great Memories Excellent Listener Very Kind Enjoyable Benevolent charming Dazzling dedicated Exquisite elegant Fantastic Happy face ideal Naughty Optimistic Remarkable Thoughtful Unique Ubiquitous Very Cool Wonderful Alluring .. Appealing Good-looking Glamorous .Beautiful Eye catching Striking Fascinating Seductive Sparkling Full of life Shining turner Seductive Humorous Stunning Superb .Exquisite Fabulous .Excellent .Exceptional .Terrific .Glittering Tempting .Persuasive Influential Credible .Likeable .grabbing Impressive Marvelous Prominent Pleasing .Extraordinary Congenial .Good-natured .Amazing Tremendous Elegant Fashionable Words r Finished But Still Could not Fully Describe

Microsoft names research project Cibai, women all over the world feels liberated!

Of all the names in the world that Francesco Logozzo can think of for his research project at Microsoft, he comes up with the epic word, Cibai. What is Cibai? Here. I think someone needs to tell Francesco or Microsoft what it really means. Don't want them to start producing their Cibai t-shirts and merchandise.

Check out this excerpt from his Cibai research paper (PDF): "The next step in the development of Cibai is the generation of method summaries: we plan to apply Cibai on the Java API so to generate stubs, and then to reuse these stubs when analyzing large programs." Apply Cibai on Java to get stubs then reuse stubs on large programs? Huh? I didn't know Cibai is so complicated.

Update: Cibai has exploded on Twitter. Here are some funny Cibai Tweets:
mrbrown: Dear USA tweeters. Let Singapore teach you the real #cibai. CIBAI is actually a warm Asian greeting. Try it the next time you meet someone!
weirdnotion: I've got so many friends who already own #cibai. You're not gonna make a profit, Microsoft!
starstreet: My friend just said: My CIBAI got virus!! Oh god the jokes won't stop coming. Coming, get it? Coming...?
misskely: Damn Cibai is so complicated? Fear not, maybe they'll publish a manual: Tools and Shortcuts to cibai.

And lastly two of mine:
izreloaded: Friend asked if I tried Cibai before. I said which one? Microsoft Cibai, not yet. Too complicated. I prefer my Cibai to be less complicated.
izreloaded: I've been talking about Cibai non stop for more than two hours already. Think I got the Cibailitis. It's highly infectious.

Nasi Lemak! Nasi Lemak! Nasi Lemak! Enough already inSing.com!

Since everyone is talking about the inSing.com ads that are showing up on TV and the web, I thought I should do an extended version of their Nasi Lemak ad for those of you who can't get enough of, yes you guessed it, Nasi Lemak. Watch the video above.

DK says it best in a comment left on my YouTube video page: "Brilliant! Someone please play this youtube video at the person who approved the stupid inSing ads. Repeat the video until he decides to pulls it down from CNA (Channel News Asia)."

Retro Mini Handheld NES System

Your portable 8-Bit gaming dream is finally realized thanks to the folks at ThinkGeek. Their Retro Mini Handheld NES System plays all your old school 8-bit NES games! Just jack in your favorite original NES cartridge into it and revive your 8-Bit childhood memories. The handheld has a 2.4" LCD TFT screen and built in speakers.

Swedish designers show us the proper way to tell the time

The Clock Clock installation by Swedish designers Humans Since 1982, features 48 electronically-controlled analog clock hands which automatically rotate into the proper positions to form a giant digital display.

Human Faces on Potatoes

Ginou Choueiri on his Potato Portraits: "I chose the potato to portray human faces because of the many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours, but their skin texture and color is very similar, and like us, they come in different sizes, shapes and forms."

(Thanks Eric)

Battlestar Galactica Prop Auction Pics

Screen Rant has posted some photos taken at the recent Battlestar Galactica Props and Costumes Auction. You can view all the lots here. I would like to have the Viper, please.

(Thanks GeekGod)

South Park Cupcakes

These South Park cupcakes by Anna Banana are so cute! She made them for her best friend Michelle. She uses fudge icing and minty marshmallow fondant toppers to create the faces of the South Park characters on dark chocolate cupcakes. More South Park cupcakes here.

Fishing Portraits by Nicola Zingarelli

Nicola Zingarelli is a photographer who specializes in taking portraits of fishermen with their catch. His Fishing Portraits Flickr photoset is beautiful. This one is a Coral Trout (one of his favourite fish to catch and to portrait) caught in Maldives Islands.

The photography of Michael Muller

I'm loving Michael Muller's photographs! I didn't know that he was responsible for the cool Wolverine and Spiderman movie posters. His work has graced the covers and pages of magazines including Vanity Fair, Elle, Rolling Stone and Time Magazine.

(via Nerdcore)

The mother of all Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie spoilers!

Don't click the following link if you're not prepared to learn about the plot of the upcoming new Transformers movie. I'm not sure how true it is but even if it is half true, the movie will be awesome. "Optimus and Bumblebee rush into rescue the kids, but Megatron spears Optimus from behind and takes him out." Yay, Megatron!

Video Game Remake Wallpapers

I'm downloading some of Orioto's brilliant video game remake desktop wallpapers. The wallpapers show how high-definition versions of classic video games would look like if they could be rendered on modern gaming systems.

(via Lifehacker)

Anatomy of the McNugget

Mike the Pod says, "People tell me that this (Anatomy of the McNugget) is hands-down the sickest thing I've ever done. So take that as a warning if you need to. The ironic secret: I still occasionally eat them. Haw!"

Doraemon and his crazy gadgets

My favourite Doraemon gadget has to be the Takecopter which is a suctioned bamboo propeller that once attached to any part of your body, will let you fly like Superman. To move up, down, left and right, just shift your body weight or if that's too tiring, you can just think where you want to go. Awesome! I'll have one please.

Star Wars AT-AT Cake

Lucky dude got this awesome Star Wars AT-AT cake for his wedding. Jennifer who helped to make the cake says, "The cake took about 60 hours (background painting, leg and body cut outs, covering, cake/covering, assembly and painting) so we figured the cake to come in some where around $5,000 at the low end." Flickr photoset here.

Rochester Institute of Technology's Domino Madness!

This insane video was created for Imagine RIT by Jared Lyon and his two co-workers. Imagine RIT is an annual festival at Rochester Institute of Technology focused on creativity and innovation of its students, faculty, and staff. Jared says that the inspiration for the video came from some of his favorite videos including the Sony Bravia balls, paint, and rabbits commercials; the Honda cog commercial; the Guinness 'Tipping Point' commercial; and all of FlippyCat's domino videos on YouTube.

(Thanks Alexander Gartley)

Giant Etch A Sketch built from Projection TV

Is this the world's largest Etch A Sketch? Jeri builds an internet enabled 52 inch Etch A Sketch (video above) from a HD projection TV, tent poles, golf tee and gear reduced motors.

Monopoly Deal Card Game: A Review

My mates and I had so much fun playing the new Monopoly Deal card game. Monopoly Deal has all the fun of owning and building iconic properties of the classic Monopoly board game – from Mediterranean Avenue to Boardwalk – but emphasizes on-the-fly real estate negotiations in game play. It is all about collecting properties and stealing from the other players.





The card game includes 110 Deal Cards, Shuffle Shaker and instructions. The objective of the game is collect three complete color property sets. The first player to do that, wins the game. You need a minimum of 2 players to play. There are various cards in Monopoly Deal: Action cards, Money cards and Property cards. The Action cards are used to charge rent, swap cards, demand birthday money, etc. Money cards go into your bank pile for you to use to pay other players. Each Property card shows you how many properties you need of that colour to complete a full set. Remember, the first player to collect 3 full property sets of different colours wins the game.



Playing the Monopoly Deal is pretty straight forward. After the cards have been shuffled using the Shuffle Shaker, deal 5 cards to each player. The rest of the cards go face down in the center to become the draw pile. Each player takes 2 cards on his turn and then decide which 3 cards (or less) he wants to play from his hand. You can put the money or action cards into your own bank, or put down the properties into your own collection or play action cards into the center.

It takes a short while to get used to the game and the instructions can be a little puzzling but once you start playing, it will all become clear. I love Monopoly Deal because it combines all the best bits of Monopoly in 20 minutes. One thing I hate about playing the original Monopoly board game is that it takes too much time to finish a game.

I like the cards which are of a high quality but I don't really see the need of the Shuffle Shaker. Putting the cards into it and shaking it is just a waste of time, really. Overall, I think the folks at Hasbro did an excellent job to take an old game that has been a favourite for many over the years and and give it a new life. Monopoly Deal has got to be the most fun card game out in the market today and it is highly addictive. Go try it! You can buy the Monopoly Deal card game at all leading toy and department stores at only S$11.90. More pics here.



Previously: Just in: The new Monopoly Deal Card Game and Risk Reinvention

Saving the environment one pizza box at a time

Watch the Green Box in action in this video above. The Green Box is a pizza box manufactured from 100% recycled material that turns into plates and storage unit. The top of the Green Box breaks down into convenient serving plates while the bottom converts easily into a handy storage container. Pretty cool idea.

Homemade Wolverine Claws

Remember the crazy guy who made those Wolverine claw piercings? Here is another dude who has made his own Wolverine claws (video above). They are less painful, requires no body piercing but equally deadly. His Wolverine claws were made in two days using copper tubing for the arm brace, and steel for the track and blades. He then welded it all together and spring loaded it.

Mona Lisa image sent via Twitter

Quasimondo has successfully sent an image he calls Mona Tweeta via Twitter. He writes: "Preliminary result of a little competition with the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet. The image on the left is what I currently manage to send in 140 characters via twitter."

Star Trek Insignia Coasters

I just found this very nice Star Trek coasters by Blyth House Creations. The coasters are cut from a single slate tile and each set features four coasters with the Star Trek insignia on them. I also like their Star Wars coasters.

iPhone controlled R2-D2

Glen is building a life-sized R2-D2 droid and hopes to control it with his iPhone! He says, "I found a way to remote control my R2D2 with an iPhone. I’ve got minimal control working now." Great job Glen. Now, how about making one for me?

19th Century Japanese Pregnancy Dolls

This morbid looking pregnant doll was actually very popular with Japanese who visited the many sideshow carnivals back in the 19th century. The dolls were created to teach midwives how to deliver babies and they were also used for entertainment purposes.

Jay Zuck’s Sketch of the Day

I've been following Jason Zuckerman's work for sometime now. I think he is an amazing artist. Jason uses art as a way to discuss an expansive array of topics, but at other times the piece art will stand on its own. Lately he has been showing readers his alien concept sketches that he has laying around his apartment.

How to customize a Les Paul guitar

Photos showing how new Guns N' Roses guitarist DJ Ashba customized his favourite Gibson Les Paul Classic Goldtop guitar into this insane looking skull casted Leatherface Les Paul in 11 easy steps. I just hope he plays as well as he does his custom guitar work.

Photoshop Madness: Logos gone wild!

A collection of pics by Russian photoshop masters imagining how logos of famous brands would look like if they are placed in real life situations. This one is the famous crocodile logo of Lacoste out in its natural habitat.

Dress made of shredded tax forms

An amateur fashion designer took her tax forms, shredded them into many little pieces and then carefully weaved them to make a tax form dress that looks great for any party!

(Thanks Kam)

Classic records re-designed as Pelican book covers

Flickr photoset of classic records lost in time and format and re-emerged as Pelican books! Littlepixel says, "I undertook to ‘reimaginitize’ some well loved records as if they were published neé released in the modernist sixties on the classic grid in the fifth dimension of alternate reality Donkle."

(via Mefi)

Angel Lap Pillow lets men pee while kneeling

Let's admit it guys. We are bad when it comes to aiming our pee in public toilets. But with the Angel Lap Pillow, we can finally say goodbye to our days of bad aiming. Just kneel on it and pee.

(via Boing Boing)

Digitigrade leg extensions will make you taller and let you walk like an animal

This is probably one of the most insane inventions ever. Digitigrade leg extensions are made of steel and add 14 inches of height to the wearer. They give a person the uncanny and graceful appearance of an animal. Watch the video above. The inventor Kim Graham says that it takes about 60 seconds to get in and out of them and it is best to do this at a bar stool height or better on a kitchen table. She is also offering a fur costume that can be built around your leg extension for those of you who really want to look like a cross breed between an animal and a human being.

NASA links to me on Twitter!

Many thanks to NASA, NASA Goddard, Frank Summers (Outreach Astrophysicist with Hubble) and all the others who linked to the video of the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis that I posted to YouTube. I've been linked by many great bloggers and websites but NASA? How cool is that! NASA Goddard says, "@izreloaded You were faster than we were! Thanks for the post. :)" Watch the video of the shuttle launch below.



Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts are currently in space, beginning their 11-day mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the final mission to repair Hubble. NASA has an interactive feature here where you can learn more about the crew, the new Hubble components, etc.

Meanwhile, you can follow Astro_Mike aka Mike Massimino, the astronaut and mission specialist who is currently on board the space shuttle. Another astronaut, Astro_127 aka Mark Polansky is also on Twitter. He will be on the next shuttle mission.

Inside the Personal Computer Pop-Up Book

Inside the Personal Computer is a pop-up book describing the internals of a 1980’s PC. It's so goddamn awesome! Don't believe me? Check out the video of the book in action. Wah! Got dot matrix printer too.

(via Gizmodo)

Styrofoam Turntable DIY Kit

The folks from Teenage Engineering have designed a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam. The design is straightforward with same measurements as an LP cover and the turntable base has the natural color of white styrofoam. The arm is CNC:d out of orange styrofoam.

Scrabble, Star Wars, Monopoly Cufflinks

Gr0glmann first started making cufflinks from LEGOs and other retro board game pieces in high school for his girlfriend and friends. This unintentionally led to him creating pieces for the whole school! His cufflinks are fun and I especially love his Scrabble, Star Wars and Monopoly ones.

Two weird children's book that you will probably never let your kids read

Illustrations taken from two children books written by Joachim Ringelnatz in the 1920s and 1930s. A commenter sums it up best: "These two books above must belong to the most strangely disturbing things I've ever read. Hard to imagine they were intended for children."

Wolverine claw piercings for all you crazy Wolverine fans

Dude has taken his love for Wolverine to the extreme with his own homemade set of claws. In order to look like Wolverine, the Brazilian body modder has metal claws inserted into the skin of his hand! Ouch. Some people are just crazy.

Sony previews Playstation 9, the future of gaming in year 2078

This is a clever old ad (video above) for Sony PlayStation 2 that shows us video gaming in the year 2078. The PlayStation 9 by Sony looks like a Pokemon ball. It breaks into two to reveal its electronic spores that once breathed into your body, will give you a video gaming experience unlike any other.

Watch every episode of Star Trek Voyager at once

Every episode of Star Trek Voyager playing at once in a grid by Avierkant. This video is a two minute excerpt from a version of the original video playing at 14x speed (reduced from 56 mins to 4 mins).

(Thanks GeekGod)

Playing football with binoculars is not a good idea

Get a bunch of men to wear ridiculous stripped outfits. Stick a pair of binoculars in front of their eyes. Make them kick a ball. Watch (video above) and laugh as they attempt to play the beautiful game.

Happy Mother's Day: Life has to end. Love doesn't.

Since it's Mother's Day tomorrow, here's a repost (slightly edited version) of what I wrote for my mum in 2006. This is how I want my own version of The Five People You Meet In Heaven to be.

"You have to live without love for many years, didn't you?"

I said nothing.

"You felt that it was snatched away, that I left you too soon."

I lowered myself slowly. Her lavender dress was spread before me.

"You did leave too soon mum," I said.

"You were angry with me."

"No."

Her beautiful eyes flashed.

"OK. Yes."

"There was a reason to it all," she said.

"What reason?" I said. "How could there be a reason? You died mum. You were taken away from me. I didn't get a chance to thank you for everything. I didn't get a chance to take good care of you and give back to you. You were the only person I think of everyday since you were gone. You died. You lost everything and I lost everything. I lost my mum."

She took my hands. "No, you didn't. I was right here. And you loved me anyway. Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move then around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. Your nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."

"Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't."

I thought about the years after I buried my mum. It seems like only yesterday. It was like looking over a fence. I remembered my mum told me when I was a little boy, of another kind of life out there, even as I knew I would never be a part of it.

"It is so unfair mum. You shouldn't have gone," I said quietly.

"I know," she said.

"I miss you so much."

"I know." She nodded. "I felt it."

"Here?" I asked.

"Even here," she said smilingly. "That's how strong lost love can be."

She stood and opened a door, and I blinked as I entered behind her. It was a dimply lit room. There was no ceiling, only glittering stars above us.

"I was saving this one," she said.

She held out her arms. It was a small white tube that is roughly around a meter in length. The words EduScience was written on it. A telescope! It was the first telescope that my mum bought for me back then I was 12.

"I thought I will never get to see it again," I said.

"Well, you thought wrong. You did get to see me," she said.

"I never said this to you before mum but thanks. Thanks for the telescope. Without it, I will never have loved astronomy this much. You know after your death, every night when I looked up at the night sky and gazed at the stars, it brought me closer to you. Real close. It's like you were there, looking down back at me."

"Well," she whispered, taking my shoulder, "you always loved those expensive hobbies."

We both smiled.

"Can I ask you something?" I said.

"Yes."

"How come you look the way you looked like when you are young?"

"I thought you would like it this way."

I thought for a moment. "Can you change it?"

"Change it?" She looked amused. "To what?"

"To the end."

She lowered her arms. "I wasn't so pretty at the end."

I shook my head, as if to say not true.

"Could you?"

She took a moment and then she changed. The web of lines beside her eyes, the thinner hair, the looser skin beneath her chin. She smiled and I smiled and she was to me, as beautiful as ever, and I closed my eyes and said for the first time what I'd been feeling from the moment I saw her again: "I don't want to go on. I want to stay here with you mum."

When I opened my eyes, my arms still held her shape but she was gone, and so was everything else...

Happy Mother's Day mum, wherever you are now. I will always miss you.

Star Wars vs Star Trek, Death Star vs Enterprise

40 secs of pure awesomeness! Some clever CGI artists have made a video (above) of the Death Star destroying the Starship Enterprise. Looks like it's Star Wars 1 Star Trek 0. Yay! From the video: "Military force was authorized yesterday minutes after the E.T.'s 48 hour deadline had passed. The E.T's were given an ultimatum to stop their whale poaching and leave Earth or face military action."

(via Nerdcore)

William Shatner sings to George Lucas

I love William Shatner in Star Trek and Boston Legal but I think this is probably his most memorable performance. At the 2005 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas, William Shatner shocked everyone by opening the show with a song complete with backup Stormtrooper dancers and a cameo by Chewbacca. Watch the video above.

Klingons review new Star Trek movie

This is the most original movie review that I've seen in a long time. For their review of the new Star Trek movie, LoveFilm got two actors dressed as Klingons to review the movie in the Klingon language.

(Thanks GeekGod)

Gizmodo's Six-Course Space Food Taste Test

The lucky folks from Gizmodo dined on a batch of space food that didn't make it into orbit from the last ISS mission for lunch to find out if space food really tastes like shit. The result? Surprisingly good! I don't mind trying the Chicken Teriyaki, Creamed Spinach. Or better yet, just send me to space.

Franny's 23rd Birthday Tentacle Cake

Franny had an awesome Tentacle Cake for her birthday! She says, "I made this cake for my 23rd birthday. Not only is it a tentacle-hentai themed cake but it is also gluten-free and vegan, and all made from scratch except for the half-a-barbie-on-a-stick and the marzipan. It was a yellow cake topped with chocolate ganache, a granulated sugar glaze, marzipan tentacles, and some purple buttercream accents."

My Moleskine 2.0 Competition

Got a Moleskine? Then take part in My Moleskine 2.0 Competition. Share your ideas on how to make and do things better, faster, more creative and innovative for both work and leisure with your Moleskine. Selected life hacks will be shown in an exhibition in Hong Kong in July 2009. Competition is open to all nationalities.

Laurence loves Blythe dolls

Laurence is a 15 year old gal from Montreal. She likes writing, indie music, late night conversations, coffee, Paris, books, plastic, photobooths, frozen fruits and she especially loves Blythe dolls! She says, "My dolly addiction started on September 12, 2007. And it never ended." Lovely photosets!

Experience Bram Stoker's Dracula in real time

Whitney Sorrow's brilliant idea for a Dracula blog is to let you experience Bram Stoker's Dracula in a new way - in real time! Dracula is a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries. Her blog will publish each diary entry on the day that it was written by the narrator so that the audience may experience the drama as the characters would have.

Mas Selamat: Is this the end of a saga?

Good news, Singapore! Mas Selamat has been captured by our friends in Malaysia. According to earliest reports, he was in Johor all along (I thought he was hiding in Indonesia) and was caught on April 1. They did not announce it on that day of course - the day being April Fool's Day and no one would have believed them - but it is strange that they took so long to announce his capture.

I guess the Malaysians want to squeeze every single info out off Mas Selamat before releasing him back to Singapore. I can see them forcing him to teach them his now legendary toilet escape trick. Or maybe they want to keep him in Malaysia instead of repatriating him since we had already let him escape once: "Those Singaporeans cannot be trusted to keep a dangerous man behind bars. We better keep him here. Malaysia boleh!"

You know what would be really funny? If he was caught while shitting in toilet! Anyway, for all his jail breaking skills, Mas Selamat is sure damn lousy at evading arrest. This is his third arrest already. What's the use of having the ability to escape via the toilet or walking into walls when you get caught time and time again?

Update: After a few days from his escape in Singapore, Mas Selamat managed to get into Malaysia by swimming the Straits of Johor on an improvised flotation device. While in Malaysia, he was planning a lot of things against Singapore.

Previously:
CNN's unflattering headline for Singapore
Play "Where's Mas Selamat?" Picture Game
Reuters says Mas Selamat escaped without trousers!
Mas Selamat Postcards

Stephen Hawking "gives" lecture at the Origins Symposium

Acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking recorded a special lecture which was delivered by his daughter Lucy for the ASU Origins Symposium on April 6. Hawking recorded the lecture as he was not able to attend due to illness. Watch his lecture above.

The Origins Symposium is an unprecedented event, bringing together 70 of the world’s leading scientists and scholars, including 8 Nobel Laureates, and the world’s pre-eminent scientific public intellectuals, for three days of panels directed at exploring important outstanding research questions such as how did the universe begin? how did life begin? is there intelligent life beyond Earth and are we alone in the cosmos? You can watch all the lectures and sessions here, here and here.

Your Computer Desktop

Download this fun desktop wallpaper for your computer! The wallpaper, done by the folks from Piled Higher and Deeper, an online comic that chronicles life (or the lack of it) in grad school, lets you organise all your icons and stuff on your desktop into various sections. Clever idea.

(Thanks Kris)

Crazy mum fills her house with stuff bought from eBay

Dude thinks his mother who collects stuff from eBay is insane. He says, "My mom likes to buy old glass crap and also other old crap that's not made of glass from eBay. In fact most of the stuff you can see (in her house) is from eBay." He has one crazy mum alright. I sure hope she has a good fire insurance for her house.

Robot Portraits

For US$15, Mr. Austin will paint a robot portrait of yourself on a 5x7 card. Just send him a picture that you'd like robotized or if you prefer a random robot, just include a short description with your payment. Check out his robot portraits Flickr photoset here.

A Star Wars Wedding

Couple dresses up as Han Solo and Princess Leia and gets married in a Star Wars themed wedding ceremony. Among the guests are Darth Vader, the Emperor, Stormtroopers, Chewbacca and a bunch of Jedi knights with their lightsabers.

Japanese illustrators design new labels for Nintendo cartridges

This year's entries from My Famicase Exhibition is now online! My Famicase Exhibition showcases original 8-bit Nintendo cartridges that are given new labels by the finest Japanese design houses and illustrators, each imagining games never created. You can view last year's entries here.

(Thanks Shikyox)

What does a Stormtrooper do in New Zealand? Dance, of course!

Dude dresses up in a Stormtrooper costume and dances on the streets of Wellington in New Zealand. Watch the video above. Great! Makes me wanna grab a Stormtrooper costume and dance all over Orchard Road.

Nintendo Purse is perfect for the gamer girl in you

Jeri Ellsworth made this cool Nintendo purse. She says, "This was a Nintendo on a chip and C64 that I installed into a purse. It used a LCD from a portable DVD player and an 8 amp hour battery, which lasts for 9 hours."

Star Trek cover shoots through the years

Trekkies will love this one! The folks from io9 have rounded up every cool non-fan magazine cover with the guys from Star Trek on it. Most of them are TV Guide covers but I like this one by Mad Magazine the most.

(Thanks GeekGod)

Go Trek Yourself!

Now I know how I would look like as a Vulcan. Ugly! To celebrate the new Star Trek movie, the folks from Star Trek have created a website where you can trek yourself to look like any of the intelligent species in the Star Trek universe. Just upload your photo and choose your greeting message. Here's mine.

All the Lego Star Wars Minifigs in history

Here's a gallery of all the Lego Star Wars minifigs manufactured since 1999. They are a part of the limited edition poster that Lego published for its 10th anniversary Lego Star Wars celebration. I want them all!

Look what Canadian hardware store did to Apple's billboard

Absolutely brilliant! Canadian hardware store Rona decided to hang its own advertising banner below a billboard of Apple's iPod Nano to tell its customers that it recycles leftover paint.

(Thanks Sir Thomas)

Moleskine Art

'skine.art is a site that celebrates moleskine lovers and their art. You'll find lots of wonderful sketches from artists' moleskines such as this one by Nicholas, a watercolor on a pocket Moleskine sketchbook (pen for text) which is part of his “executive briefings” series.

(via Mefi)

The missing hour during the EGM of Aware 2009

Wayneworldmay2009 has did it again. After entertaining us with his parody video of what really happened inside Aware's office a day before the EGM, now he has made another parody video just as funny titled, "The missing hour during the EGM of Aware 2009" starring Rambo as Josie Lau. Watch the video above. He writes: "A very emotional clip. Not for the faint hearts. During the Aware EGM, when the new exco lost the vote and were asked to step down by the old guards, they went missing for an hour to decide on their destiny. What happened during that hour? This video provides the answer."

Update: The video has been removed by YouTube. They claimed that the clip used from the film Rambo has violated the terms of use.

Previously:
What happened inside Aware office a day before the EGM
AWARE and the art of hijacking associations and societies in Singapore

The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom for all you Mario wannabes

Carnegie Mellon University student Theyab has created a funny textbook called The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom. It offers a look at the flora and fungi of the Super Mario Bros universe. This diagram from his book shows how the Super Mushroom breaks apart in the digest system into millions of body bacteria. I'd stay away from the Super Mushroom if I were you.

Hospital food photo blog for all you hungry patients

Hospital Food is a new Tumblr blog that collects photos of delicious and not so delicious hospital meals from around the world. I like this meal served at Clinique du Bien-Naître, a maternity hospital in Paris. Those lucky mums to be get treated to really good food.

(via Boing Boing)

Student creates vanishing car, impresses recycling firm

Sara Watson, a design student has made a battered old Skoda disappear by painting it to merge with the surrounding car park. She took 3 weeks to transform the car which is now being used for advertising by the local recycling firm that donated the vehicle.

(Thanks Mr Big)

My Paper reports on Singapore Twitter users during the AWARE EGM

For those of you who missed today's report by My Paper regarding Singaporeans who created a storm on Twitter during Saturday's AWARE EGM, here's the short article by Chen Jingting. You can read the full story here (turn to page A6).

I don't think there were only 150 of us on that day. I swore there were more than that. Anyway, we were simply awesome and even made #awaresg the top Twitter trend beating the swine flu and Wolverine. Not bad, considering how unbeatable those two are.

After this, I'm so looking forward to the General Elections already. If the media and others think we were hot on Twitter during the AWARE EGM, they haven't seen anything yet. Twitter will explode during GE! Exciting times ahead and I'm sure the powers that be are also anxiously looking forward to it.

(Thanks Annie, WH, Myra Leong, LKee)

Previously:
What happened inside Aware office a day before the EGM
AWARE and the art of hijacking associations and societies in Singapore

Singapore cabbies exposed using Nokia Mobile Navigation

Two friends are out to prove that some cabbies in Singapore are dishonest and that they are just out to cheat their customers. Armed with a video camera and the GPS mobile navigation on their Nokia phone, they boarded various taxis to catch the drivers in the act. Watch the video above. Two more videos here and here.

(Thanks WH)

Japanese TV show scares kids with zombie attack, kids fight back

Valiant Japanese kids show us how to defend against a zombie attack. Watch the hilarious video above. Poor kids. They really think it was a real zombie. Or maybe I should have said poor zombie instead because that's some beating the zombie received at the end. Well, at least now we know that when there's a zombie invasion in the future, we can count on these Japanese kids to fight them all. Yay! We can sleep safely now.

(via Geekologie)

Susan Boyle sings, 25 years ago

Two videos of Susan Boyle, like you have never seen her before, performing at a talent contest 25 years ago, have been unearthed by 61 year old Gerry McGuinness. He says, “She was so shy but she was also very attractive back then – she turned a few heads when she came in. She didn’t win the contest though."

Previously: Susan Boyle can really sing but needs to wear a bra during photoshoots

How McDonald's make the Big Mac

Watch this mouthwatering video showing how McDonald's make their famous Big Mac burger. Yummy! Everything is there - the two juicy beef patties, iceberg lettuce, American cheese, pickles, onion and the special "Mac" sauce served on a three part sesame seed bun! Makes me wanna go out and get one now. But wait, maybe not.

Happy Star Wars Day, Singapore style!

Since everyone on Twitter is celebrating Star Wars Day, I thought I should do the same and wish all you Star Wars fans out there a Happy Star Wars Day! And to celebrate this occasion, here's a cute photo of some Star Wars characters posing in front of the Singapore flag (bigger pic here) taken by jing, who has got to be the most creative photographer in Singapore today. His photos will blow you away, I tell you.

Dude builds Batmobile from Batman Forever

Dear sculptor Bob Causey, can you build me a Batmobile from Batman Forever just like the one you hand built recently, complete with a full-interior, retractable hard top and three LCD displays, please? I'll make you some brownies.

Video games x-rayed!

This is how the PS3 Dualshock III controller looks like when it's viewed with x-ray! Reintji who took this and other cool x-ray images of game consoles, controllers and cartridges says, "In this set I'm trying to combine my work (x-ray technician) with one of my hobbies, gaming!" I just hope those game consoles, etc still work after going through the x-ray machine.

What happened inside Aware office a day before the EGM

The much awaited extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of the Association of Women and Research (Aware) is on right now at Suntec. You can follow missybossy who's there for updates on Twitter. But for those of you who want to know what really happened inside the office of Aware a day before the EGM, watch this hilarious spoof video (above, see updates below) showing the tense atmosphere in the Aware office and the new exco going through their strategy with their lawyers, supporters, members and the mastermind.

Update:
The Online Citizen reports live here and here from the EGM (Thanks Mr Big)
Sorry to those who can't view the video above. wayneworldmay2009, who uploaded the video, has unfortunately just set it to private
You can follow what's going on at the Aware EGM on #awaresg
Video above has now been removed by wayneworldmay2009
A mild version of the video has now been posted. You can watch it above.
Watch the missing hour during the EGM of Aware 2009, and update to the above video.

Previously: AWARE and the art of hijacking associations and societies in Singapore