“Things to do while on house arrest.” — TrueArche
Organizing The Bookcase
02/24/11 -- Pretty Cool
Top 20 Greatest Voice Over Performances
02/24/11 -- Top Lists
“Voice over work is an art. The golden age of radio brought it into the world, and the realm of animation thrust it into the limelight. Toss in live action CGI characters and animatronics and puppetry and we’re hearing more and more exciting voice over work with a fair percentage of films that are released. I have included in this list 10 fine examples from animation and 10 from other venues of voice acting (puppetry, animatronics, CGI). These entries are in no particular order. They are all stand-out examples.” w/ photos
Violin-Playing Robots
02/23/11 -- Only In Japan
Top 10 Best Time Travel Video Games
02/23/11 -- Top Lists
“Just to be clear, we’re talking about games in which your player characters actually travel through time, not games in which you use time manipulation (so no Braid). We haven’t yet seen all of the new Back to the Future games from Telltale, so they could very much belong on this list eventually. Until we get to judge those games yet to come (which is certainly one of the first things I plan to do with my time machine) these examples will have to stand for now as the most creative uses of the time travel concept in gaming.” w/ videos
World’s Loudest Cat
02/23/11 -- Amazing
“Pet cat Smokey is believed to have the LOUDEST PURR in the world – with piercing purrs as loud as a lawnmower. Most cats purr at around 25 decibels but Smokey’s powerful purrs average an amazing 80 DECIBELS. When measured close-up her purrs reach an incredible 92 decibels, equivalent to the noise of a lawnmower, hair dryer or a Boeing 737 coming into land. Owners Ruth and Mark Adams say Smokey’s deafening purrs make it impossible for them to hear the television or radio when she is in the room and they struggle to have telephone conversations.” w/ photo + video
Misery Bear Goes To Work
02/23/11 -- Hilarious
Printing Real Body Parts?
02/23/11 -- Interesting
“The next step in the 3D printing revolution may be body parts including cartilage, bone and even skin. Three-dimensional printing is a technique for making solid objects with devices not unlike a computer printer, building up line by line, and then vertically layer by layer. While the approach works with polymers and plastics, the raw ingredients of 3D printing have been recently branching out significantly. The printers have been co-opted even to make foods, and do-it-yourself biology experiments dubbed ‘garage biotech’ – and has most recently been employed to repair a casting of Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker that was damaged in a botched robbery. But at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, the buzzword is bioprinting: using the same technique to artfully knock out new body parts.” w/ photo + video
AT-AT Tree House
02/23/11 -- Pretty Cool
“The freestanding, self-supporting house-by-a-tree is a playhouse designed with contemporary design principles, deviating from precedents that model real houses or garden sheds. Instead, the design was guided by the goal of creating interesting and different spatial experiences for children that inspire new forms of polay… The furnishings are minimal and simply constructed from dowel pins that allowed children to participate in the making of their playhouse. The tree features a permanent and retractable bench, and scattered operable openings at different heights in the walls. The house also features a plexi-glass wall at one end that makes the house visually accessible.” w/ photos
