The World's Hideous Doll

The World's Most Hideous Doll stands about 16" tall and is made of firm, painted foam. The doll is a baby with two heads. One head is relatively normal, while the other is your standard-issue demon-spawn creature from Hell. I'm going to have nightmares with this thing lying in my bedroom.

Illustrations by Eamo

Influenced by American underground comics of the 60s and Japanese manga, Australian artist Eamo paints subject matter that is distinctly Australian, provoking a nostalgic feeling of the land downunder. Now why I can't ever draw like this?

(via Recogedor)

The Milky Way galaxy suspended in a glass cube

A 3D model of the Milky Way, with the Solar System positioned in the exact center of the glass cube. A laser was used to etch around 80,000 of the stars in the Milky Way, using three-dimensional data from the Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory. Beautiful!

Contender Asia gag order on the media is crap!

Straits Times writer Tay Yek Keak wrote in the papers yesterday saying that he can't tell you who's the winner of The Contender Asia because of a ridiculous gag order imposed on those from the media who attended the final match at the Indoor Stadium last Saturday. But I can.

Everybody, the winner is Thailand's Yodsanklai Fairtex! Quick, go tell your father, mother, sister, brother, grandpa, grandma, friends and relatives ok.

The Contender Asia is a reality-based television series that follows 16 aspiring Muay Thai middleweight fighters from 12 countries as they compete in a series of outdoor challenges and sanctioned matches. It is a production of local media company, Imagine OmniMedia in association with Mark Burnett Productions.

The media were invited together with around 6000 people to the Indoor Stadium on Saturday night to witness the final fight between Yodsanklai and Aussie John Wayne Parr. The producers insisted that the media sign a non disclosure form not to reveal the winner. This gag order will last until April 24. The finale will only be shown on AXN on April 23. Now tell me if that's not the most ridiculous thing you've heard.

I think the producers should be shot. They invited journalists to witness their great spectacle but these poor folks can only report on the outcome of the match some 12 days after watching it. WTF! The producers might as well get the entire 6000 people at the stadium to sign the non disclosure agreement too because I'm sure they will be telling their friends, etc about the match and the winner.

Journalists from traditional media like Mr Tay above can complain all they want but if they really think that the gag order makes everybody look stupid then they should not have attended the finale if the producers insisted on the non disclosure agreement. Why sign the ridiculous agreement just so that you get free tickets to watch two men fighting each other? Traditional media people have no balls. They should just boycott the finale. I doubt bloggers will sign such a thing if they were invited as part of the media. I'm sure we bloggers will just give the producers a good fark off!

For the record, I was invited to watch The Contender Asia Finale but I decided not to go. Not because I had to agree to the stupid gag order but because I was never a big fan of the show in the first place and more importantly, I cringe everytime I see and hear the host Jaymee Ong. Sorry but I think she sound as if she's breathing in helium all the time.

For clips of the final match between Yodsanklai and John, click here, here and here and for a report, read this. Take that stupid Contender Asia producers!

Japanese Ikea Train

I think this is a brilliant marketing idea by Ikea. The Swedish furniture giant converted the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a moving showroom to promote its new retail outlet launch.

Kalashnikov alarm that is guaranteed to scare away burglers

Afghan inventor Hanif Molavizadeh, an unemployed electrical engineer, makes his own home burglar alarm using a Kalashnikov rifle. Once an intruder triggers the alarm's motion detectors , it will set off a song-like warning. An automated voice then warns him on his cellphone that there is an intruder. He can then remote-fire the Kalashnikov attached to the wooden box of his alarm. If that doesn't scare away burglars, I think nothing will.

A Set Visit to the X-Files Sequel

Lucky dude visited the set of the new X-Files movie. Damn, it looks like it's going to be a werewolf flick after all, or maybe not. From Shock Till Your Drop:

The entrance to Playland directs one past a roller coaster - the same one used by James Wong (another X-Files alum) for the opening of Final Destination 3. But where I'm heading is to the ice rink, that's where the crew is working today. Inside it appears the converted rink has been bisected, most of the action is predominantly occurring around a faux house facade garnished with the foliage. "This would be Mulder's house," co-writer and producer Frank Spotnitz informs us, greeting ShockTillYouDrop.com by the porch. He's enjoying the warmer environs here after shooting for three weeks in sub-zero temperatures north of Whistler in Pemberton. "It matches the real house [located in Fort Langley] which is supposed to be somewhere around the Washington D.C. area in the movie." For Spotnitz, the realization of another X-Files case, "has been a dream. I didn't think it was going to happen - after six years, negotiations, working on the story."

Previously:
X-Files 2 to be shown in Singapore on July 31
The X-Files Vancouver Press Conference
X-Files 2 Werewolf Disinformation
X-Files 2 Teaser Trailer and Release Date

Today's Singapore News

1. $20,000 back if your bank goes bust
2. World's highest apartment rents: Singapore at number 9
3. NETS says there is no shortage of CashCards
4. Singapore monetary policy criticized
5. Behind the scenes at the Whitley Road Detention Centre
6. S'pore's first coral nursery blooms a year after it was started
7. Singapore biomedical sector grows fourfold
8. Online hawker-food price guide to deter profiteering
9. Singapore to enjoy full mobile number portability from 13 June
10. Parking in Marina area? These signs can help

Read them all at Topix Singapore News, edited by yours truly.

Mum's 1968 school yearbook redrawn

Dude redrew his mother’s entire high school yearbook from 1968 - that's over a thousand heads! He then published the project as a book called Excelsior 1968, a high school yearbook for the fictional Bristol County Secondary School in the fictional Staedtler, Ontario.

(Thanks GeekGod)

Star Wars Urban Photography Mash-Up

Wow! French photographer Cedric Delsaux photoshops various Star Wars characters into his stunning photos of modern day urban locations. The lighting and setting make these photos look damn real.

(Thanks Mr Big)

Refacing.. erm, defacing the US Dollar

Take a couple of US dollar notes, use a pen or some colour markers and get your creativity flowing on the faces of the US Presidents. This is Emo Lincoln on the US$5 note. The genius behind this calls his Flickr set Refacing Government Tender. Ha! Shouldn't it be defacing? I like to see someone do this to our Singapore moolah.

(via Straydog Scraps)