ENGRISHFUNNY

From the lolcat geniuses, a new website, Engrish Funny, which takes the mickey. Love it.


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disassembled household appliances

One of the best Flickr sets I've seen in ages. It is, as the name suggests, disassembled household appliances. Some of it's not so well executed - lighting is a bit off etc - but it's still impressive.

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Electric carving knife

Juicer

The rest are all here.

Sailfish 1, Sardines 0

"Paul Nicklen's amazing underwater photos of sailfish are a stunning series of seriously bizarre-looking sailfish attacking a school of sardines as big as an elephant." In the Whirl (Thanks, Marilyn!)
(from BoingBoing)

Newlyweds tasered twice in 48 hours

(Photo by Kacper Skowron/For the Sun-Times)

"The short version of the story is they didn't want to quit their partying," said Mike Sepic, Berrien County, Mich., chief assistant prosecutor. "If you put this in the class of wedding receptions gone bad, I guess this would take the cake."

And the story didn't end after the reception. Two nights later, the bride and groom were again arrested in Michigan -- and again shocked by a stun gun -- after struggling with police investigating a noise complaint, Sepic said. The groom was charged with pushing his new wife down during that incident, but the charge was later dropped as part of a plea bargain, Sepic said.

Newlyweds are Tasered, arrested at reception melee, and again two days later (suntimes.com) (via For Your Entertainment)

Improvisation in Thailand

Thomas Kalak is a photographer from Munich, Germany who specializes in the offbeat. His subject is the curious art of found technology. He's accumulated a magnificent gallery of old American cars in Cuba called "Havana Oldtimers". In Thailand he focuses on the often-seen but rarely-noticed jumble of wires that weave their way overhead every street. Adhoc in design, these almost organic nests have their own charm if you let them seduce you. Kalak has collected an entire portfolio of Bangkok Wires.

These and more are included in a new book about Thailand called "Thailand -- Same Same, But Different. No cliches here. No lovely maids, palm beaches or grand temples. Instead Kalak captures odd moments of street use. Plastic chairs in alleys; traffic cone patterns. Even the locals are blind to their off-center beauty. Kalak has a keen eye for the way folks improvise. I think of this work as improv zen.

The ubiquitous plastic bag becomes an instant cheap bottle if you add a straw. And you can hang it anywhere.

Owner-built key ring boards.

I think these are home-made brake lights. Suspended by a wire, a bulb inside a bottle covered with read plastic will light up at night.

Filled with water this can keeps the table cloth from blowing away.

A mop made from old socks!!

Reflectors made from CDs.

From KK Streetuse.

Fridge Magnet Force

An investigation has been launched into claims that cheeky police are said to have left a fridge-magnet calling card after smashing into the wrong house. Officers hunting a criminal recalled to prison for breaching his release conditions broke into the home of a couple in Oldham.

The family came home to find a hole in their back door, police in the yard, and fridge magnets rearranged to spell "OLDHAM TASK FORCE CALLED".



Aaron West, his partner Leeanne Baker, and their two-year-old son Leighton had only moved into the rented house in Letham Street, Hathershaw, 11 days earlier.

Mr West, 20, said: "It's pathetic and childish. I want a written apology. We came back from shopping to find the back door smashed in and on the kitchen work top. The police here didn't tell us much, so I went to the station to ask why. But when I told the desk sergeant I didn't know who they were looking for, they just weren't interested.

"When I came home I noticed the fridge magnets had been rearranged and said: `OLDHAM TASK FORCE CALLED'. "These are for children, they're not for the police to leave a message they've raided your house."

Police bosses have launched an investigation.

From here.

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Old Estonian advert for processed chicken meat

This is what advertising is about: echoing conceptual jazz chants, meat slurry being extruded from a machine, and nervous chickens. (via BoingBoing)

Ten Kens: Bearfight!

Ten Kens: Bearfight! from Earz Mag on Vimeo.

Strange, very strange. But I like it.

Politicalego

Lego gets political:
Dunechaser, the dude on Flickr who makes the best sets, has debated long and hard, but finally decided to get political. No signs of an Abu Ghraib set yet, but he has got his own version of the CIA's extraordinary rendition as well as a rather nice set-up of Fidel and Castro:

Unnecessary censorship

RayBan Vagabond

The Ray Ban Vagabond has an aviator profile but is made of plastic instead of metal. These ones have a laminated "rainbow" multi-colored frame combined with 'ambermatic variable density and colour lenses' (jeepers) which are good for varied conditions as they cut haze and boost contrast.

Uh-oh karaoke

Check for the basement jacks...

Wolverine Frogs

Trichobatracus robustus (top) and Astylosternus perreti (bottom)—sport a Wolverine-like defense mechanism, scientists have announced. When threatened, the amphibians pierce their skin with toe bones, sprouting makeshift claws with which to attack predators.

David C. Blackburn, a biologist at Harvard University, came across the frogs while conducting fieldwork in Cameroon. When he picked up one of the fist-size amphibians, it kicked its hind legs violently.

"I was surprised to come across frogs that can give you such a nasty scratch when you pick them up," Blackburn said. "When I got back to the U.S., I used preserved museum specimens to study the anatomy of these claws, because it was obviously pretty unusual."

After going through 63 species of African frogs, Blackburn found that in at least 11, the bones at the ends of the toes are connected to smaller and sharper free-floating bones. These smaller end bones are part of structures called nodules that are connected to the rest of the foot by a collagen-rich sheath. (Related: video: "See-Through Frogs Bred By Japanese Researchers" [October 1, 2007].)

By flexing a certain foot muscle, the frog causes the bone to retreat from the nodule and pierce the skin, revealing a clawlike structure. Unlike ordinary claws, such as those of a cat's, the frog bones do not possess a protective coating of a protein known as keratin, nor do they emerge from a specialized structure in the foot.

The frogs, all in the genera Astylosternus, Trichobatracus, or Scotobleps, appear to employ this mechanism only when threatened, as revealing the claws causes traumatic damage to the frogs' skin.

Blackburn's study is described in a forthcoming issue of the journal Biology Letters.

—Sara Goudarzi (from the National Geographic)

Russian ghostie pics (long exposure)

Alexey Titarenko's "City of Shadows" is a series of haunting, gorgeous long-exposure shots of street-scenes in St Petersburg, Russia. The long exposure-times turn the people in the shots into ghosts and suggestions of motion. Link, via Boingboing.

Samurai Champloo

The perfect mix of katana, Edo-stylings and contemporary counterculture references, Samurai Champloo is well worth watching.

Stuffed with swordplay, slapstick comedy and swift-moving plot, it follows Fuu (dizzy teenage girl), Jin (disgraced master swordsman) and Muguen (breakdancing psycho) as they try to find 'The Samurai who smells of sunflower', travelling across Japan and having all sorts of adventures.


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The whole thing is the brainchild of Shinichiro Watanabe, the man who gave us Cowboy Bepop. As you'd expect, everything from the music to the pace of the story has been well looked after. There are terrific set-piece scenes, and fantastic attention to detail throughout.

There's a Samurai Champloo fansite here with plenty of downloads, but Veoh.com - from the embedded video above - has all the episodes for free, so you get your laptop and watch 'em in bed with a hangover.

Pan-Kun and James

Wow. Just wow.





Mark my words, one day they'll take over.

Cornelius - Omstart

Watch this

It's so funny a little bit of wee might come out. Or so I'm told.