Huge mistake not using Adam West for all the films. They should bring him back in his old age for “Batman Ends” and close out the series.
November 30, 2009
they glued banner ads with wax onto some huge flies at a german book expo… having them freely fly around the place doing the advertising work for some booth.. quite brilliant
November 23, 2009
November 22, 2009
´The body of the robot — named “Robochan” — consists of a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid. The iPhone head, which attaches to the body via the dock connector, displays various facial expressions while functioning as the controller. Using Robochan’s iPhone interface, the user can program it to function as an alarm clock, dance to music, and perform other moves based on user interaction.
This robot’s functions
- change its face
- dance with playing music
- wake up alarm with body motion
- interaction with its body
- teach and playback
November 20, 2009
When friends return from a trip to Thailand, they talk of many things. They talk of the spicy food; they talk of the full moon parties of which they remember nothing; and they talk of the ladyboys.
To the best of my knowledge, a ladyboy is a boy that wants to be a girl, or possibly a girl that was a boy, even though particular appendages may still be in place. It’s quite possible that the term ladyboy covers everyone from “a lad with a moustache who calls himself Sue”, to “a former lad who now has ladybumps the size of small planets”, with his middle wicket having recently been removed by a team of crack surgeons, so to speak.
In a small city a stone’s throw from Osaka, it’s a slightly different story. Here, you’ll find the boyladies.
The Takarazuka Revue Company is a theatrical troupe, and a wildly popular one at that.
And what’s more, the performers in the troupe are all women. This is where the boylady bit comes in. With no men to play the roles of men, the ladies have to don Y-fronts and beards and do the job for them. And they do it with aplomb.
Below: Some members of the Takarazuka Revue Company.
There are no male members in the Takarazuka Revue Company, both literally and figuratively speaking.
arhh.. that was awful
In larger cities, the rush hour might well involve a bloke in white gloves shoving you onto a carriage till you’re so far in that your face squashes up against the window while someone’s briefcase rides up your butt as you try to make sure your hands don’t touch anyone lest you be accused of groping.
Outside the big cities though, the situation is somewhat different. The rush hour might involve a train pulling in to the station, the doors opening, you stepping on to the train in a style of your choosing, walking to a seat at a steady pace and sitting down.
Your main concern will be finding a position which you deem suitable…..
…so that you can kick back and relax….
…and once you’re nice and comfortable, you can happily doze off….
….having taken your shoes off first, of course.
The laying of a new high-bandwidth fiber-optic cable connecting North America and Asia via the northern Pacific Ocean began on November 1st from Japan. The cable line, called “Unity”, is a project of six major communication companies, including Google and Japan’s KDDI.
The Unity cable plan was announced in February of 2008 at a projected cost of $300 million USD. In the wake of rapidly increasing traffic between the two regions of the world, the six companies aim to increase the overall transpacific cable capacity by at least 20% when it is set to start operation sometime in spring of 2010. Yutaka Yasuda, KDDI’s General Manager of Technology Sector, commented “The project is of great importance to Japan and America, as well as Asia.”
The cable, when finished, will stretch approximately 10,000 km (6,200 miles) from data centers in the Los Angeles area to KDDI’s data center in Chikura, just outside of Tokyo. From Japan, information can then be distributed to other countries in East Asia. The planned maximum capacity of Unity was 7.68 Tbps, however that number has since fallen to 4.8 Tbps for its initial use, according to a report from Japan’s ITpro. (For the curious, according to one reporter, John Bourdreau, 4.8 Tbps would supposedly be the equivalent of approximately 75 million simultaneous voice calls!)
The cable-laying ship, operated by Japan’s NEC Corporation, is expected to meet up with another cable-laying ship from America, operated by Tyco Telecommunications, sometime around November 11th. The cable will then be fused together. Tests are scheduled to be conducted before Unity is brought in to operational use early next year.
A new bar in Nagoya called “んだ～ バカヤロウ！” (Nda Bakayaro!) has a perspex “Bakayaro Box” in the middle where uptight executives can get a bit of stress relief. No, it’s not that kind of place.
The menu includes fake beer bottles which you can smash over someone’s head
or you might choose have water dumped on them.
You can also elect to stick the person causing you grief under a giant balloon which slowly inflates until it bursts.
The bar was opened in September by Hiromichi Hasegawa, a waterworks company employee, after a year in which his company saw business drop by a third. He came up with most of his ideas playing “batsu games” with co-workers when they were drowning their sorrows. He decided they were having so much fun it would be a waste not to share with others so he hit on the idea of starting a bar. It has proved popular with company groups and Hasegawa is looking forward to a busy end-of-year party season. Food and drink are all typical cheap izakaya items but the fake beer bottles and large balloon will run to around 3,000 yen. The water dump is only 1,000 yen but, while the bar provides towels to dry yourself off, you’ll probably need to buy a T-shirt and sweatpants from them to change into afterwards XD
