Adorable robot floor cleaner

Video above shows a robot slug by Nanofiber di Teijin Ltd which double up as a pillow(kidding). It’s gracious movement and gentle outlook may be mistaken for a robot pet.

BotJunkie - Fukitorimushi Floor Cleaning Robot

How to feel miserable and end your life early

Ali Hale from Dumb Little Man has 10 great ways for you who felt that your life is too blessed. Here are the points,

Turn every little problem into disaster
Don’t solve them
Worry about things you have absolutely no power over
Let your problem pile up
Blame on everyone and everything
Torture yourself
Complain, whine and grumble
Refuse all help
Find excuses, don’t fight your laziness
Never take a break

I would like to add few more points. You can drink every night, sleep late, eat as much as you like and stop exercising. If you are still living after couple of years, buy yourself a can of insecticide.

DumbLittleMan – 10 Ways to Make Yourself Miserable

Historical figure without face hair

Here is an imaginary picture of Osama bin Laden without his beard, and more at English Russia.(Link)

Light up my black skull

Matter has a ghoulish and delightful dark candle which I very much like to add to my infantile bed room deco. Alas! 95 dollars is way above my wallet weight to haunt my wife.

Matter – Skull Candle

Singpost got creative in easing junk flyers in our HDB mailbox

Spotted in one local forum, this order form is for advertiser to pay Singpost for their flyer, brochure, ads mail etc to be delivered to HDB mailbox by postman. Click to enlarge.
Hey Singpost, dun liketat leh! HDB cleaner has had hard time sweeping up area around the mailbox.

Can you also design another form for us to pay you so that those junk will not come to our mailbox? My wife keeps complaining about this.

Scientists said you can pass your happiness to your children

Dr. Alberto Halabe Bucay of Research Center Halabe and Darwich in Mexico says,

"My paper suggests a way that the parent's psychology before conception can actually affect the child's genes."

Alexander Weiss, a psychologist at the University of Edinburgh says,

"Although happiness is subject to a wide range of external influences, we have found that there is a heritable component of happiness which can be entirely explained by genetic architecture of personality,"

So now they mean leaving my children with obscene sum of money and power to dictate a multitude, like being the king of some nation, will not make them happy?

Read more here – Live Science, Happiness May Be Inherited

Earth Ozone til 2060, as predicted if CFC is not banned

Over at NASA observatory, a team of scientist set out to predict what the ozone layer would have looked like today and in the future if countries around the world had not signed the Montreal Protocol Treaty banning ozone-depleting chemicals.

As you can see here, by 2060 the Ozone will be gone if Chlorofluorocarbons was not banned.

Earth Observatory - The Ozone Layer If CFCs Hadn't Been Banned

Harvard law professor argues about P2P fair use

Charles Nesson, in his defense of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum, spelled out his defense strategy, which doesn't appear to involve claims that his client "didn't do it." Instead, Nesson argues that it doesn't matter if Tenenbaum copied music; such noncommercial uses are presumptively "fair" and anyone seeking to squeeze file-swappers for statutory damages is entitled to precisely zero dollars. He wrote,

"It would be a bizarre statute indeed that offered two completely unrelated remedies, one which granted actual damages and lost profits, and the other of which granted plaintiffs the right to drive a flock of sheep across federal property on the third day of each month."

Ars Technica, Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use".

Google Doodle - One World Under God

Google has a vote for you favorite doodle competition. The theme is “What I Wish for the World”. I was quite impressed with what the k3 grade has come up with. These are the 4 doodles I voted, in order.

One World Under God
A New Beginning
Significant Others
Time to Go Home

Doodle 4 Google - What I Wish for the World

Root boot, walk like Ent

Demonstration of a boot that not only wraps around your leg like tree bark, but also make ripping wood sound while the wearer moves, a perfect way to walk like an ancient being.

Project source – Root Boot

Abstract Illustration of Bible, verse by verse

Today I join a Facebook group ‘The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible’ and was directed to this site, where many, many artist contributed their illustrated view of Bible’s verses. Most of the illustration is surreal or symbolically represented, which stirs many wild Imaginations in me.

Seen here is from John 11:35 ‘Jesus wept.’ By James Robinson.

Original Site

5000 years of Religion in 90 seconds

Embedded here is a shortwave video of how and when various Religion is spread throughout the globe for the past 5000 year, in one and half minutes.

Source – History of Religion