Woman sees own heart on display. The 23-year-old woman had developed a life-threatening heart condition and undergone a heart transplant; she describes seeing the original organ as “an emotional and surreal experience”.
Year: 2007
The goggles, they, er, do something!
New Uvex super-goggles change tone depending on light conditions. Now you can go ahead and ski well into the evening with confidence — but note that the goggles won’t otherwise help your skiing skills…
The reverse of Engrish.
Hanzi Smatter – dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in western culture. A good counterpoint to “May I take your order” (below), this site with its tattoo focus does raise an interesting question — why would someone write something on themselves permanently without knowing what it means?
A cure to Directshow weirdness
I’d love to use nothing but Linux on all my computers… if only I could. Unfortunately I regularly work from home using Windows-only software, and Linux support for games is barely there at all — it is completely missing for the newer games, and DirectX10 will only serve to compound this issue. In short I have to use Windows more often than I’d like. And unlike with Linux Windows bugs are very tough to identify and even harder to correct. Recently I had to deal with an internal Windows system called DirectShow that was downright broken. Continue reading A cure to Directshow weirdness
If that’s what the menus are like, no wonder tourists only eat at McDonald’s.
May I take your order? Taiwanese restaurant’s English menu is more confusing than trying to read the original Chinese descriptions. Personal favorites include (seriously) “J&J Living the Bowel”, “Cowboy Leg”, “Every form rape” (DO NOT WANT) and “The special features Namely Whets the Almond” (huh?).
Life imitates old, obvious joke.
Suicide at Burning Man was mistaken for performance art. I guess his buddies just thought it was a *very* convincing, lifelike piece…
‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ -Ben Franklin
Using Sony memory sticks will break the security of your Windows PC. Proving once again that despite its “cool” image Sony remains the idiot child of the technology age.
‘Because only major losers have sex – which everyone knows is only for fags.’
Sex is for fags! Billing itself as “abstinence-only coolness for boys”, SIFF isn’t quite Landover Baptist — its language would push it closer to the Westboro Baptist camp — but it comes pretty close. Together with Iron Hymen the site hopes to one day bring abstinence-only coolness to all mankind… well, OK, maybe not. The site belongs to Chickenhead Productions, which owns the whitehouse.org domain and irked the Vice President with a spoof article. The parody site was also quoted as the official White House web site by MSNBC earlier this year.
If this hasn’t won some sort of design award, there’s no justice in this world.
The Da Vinci prostate surgery system. I know what it is and what it’s used for, but did the designers really have to make it look like that? Oh well, at least they — and the doctors who use the thing — seem to have a pretty good sense of humor about their jobs!
Linked for truth…
Men are least happy in their late 30s. Now if only I had enough cash to get myself a Corvette I could at least have a proper mid-life crisis!