Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Another company is selling little plants for your cell phone. Their selection is impressive, I wouldn’t mind getting a blue jade plant, those look pretty cool. I bought a keychain plant as a gift last year and the tiny cactus is still alive and looks ok so I’d say that they are a pretty good investment. I’d like to see one of the algae pal kinds though, those seem pretty odd.
Look at this fine model that was enterd in this years Wonderfest. What is Wonderfest you might ask? Well, to quote the web site, "WonderFest is THE annual expo for model and toy collectors of s-f, horror & comics subjects–especially plastic kits & garage kit. Featuring the largest imaginative model contest in America, how-to seminars, movie special f/x & comic art guests, parties, and a make & take room for beginners." Sounds like a blast!
This Eagle Rescue Transport from Space:1999 is a thing of beauty.
This sounds exactly like a game my friends and I used to play when we were in high school called ‘Killer‘ by Steve Jackson Games. We used everything from eggs filled with Snap Caps (grenades) to rubber dart guns to the dreaded disc gun (high rate of fire but low accuracy). Nowadays the game Killer is heavy on the Nerf weapons, I’m glad of that. Today if your running around with a a rubber dart gun your likely to spend a whole lot of time in jail and pay huge fines for having the cops use all of their cop gear to cordon off an entire city while they look for your sorry butt.
This modern version looks to be limited to only a few plays, a hundred or so. And only water is to be used take out your target. I’m sure as this hits the mainstream more and more people will be trying this for themselves and end up getting in the news. Not in the good way either.
I’d like to know if this new version has any ties to the Jackson game, other than the premise. It’s clear that the people that run this are worried about copy cat (or lawsuits)s, you only get the rules once you have been screened and approved to play. This is about all you get from the web site:
At the start of the game you will receive a manila envelope containing the following:
- A picture of your intended target(s)
- The home address of your intended target(s)
- The work address of your intended target(s)
- The name of your intended target(s)
- Contact information of your intended target(s)
Upon receipt of these items, your (or your team’s) mission is to find and kill (by way of water gun, water balloon or super soaker) your target(s).
You can hunt your target down any way you see fit; you can pose as a delivery person and jack them when they open the door, disguise yourself and take them out on the street, etc.
If you are successful in your assassination attempt, the person you killed will give you their envelope and the person they were supposed to kill becomes your new target. This continues until you work yourself through all the players and retrieve the envelope with your (or your team’s) picture(s) and name(s). Then you win. Cash…but first live in fear.
There is nothing like knowing that your being hunted to make you alert and aware of everything. Quite exhilarating, like playing paintball for weeks on end. Except that you never know when that ball is going to strike and you only get one shot.
[via Wonderland]
Have some old NTSC monitors gathering dust in your basement? Why not make a triple head display out of them. Sounds kooky but you can drive three monitors from one card by sending data on each color. So you get one monitor each for the red, green, and blue signals. Cool, eh? You have to hack your video cards BIOS a bit to get the refresh to match the TVs, but that’s well worth it.
[via hack-a-day]
I think I might have seen one of these in Bangkok but I’m not sure.
Patented in 1967, K67 was prepared for its serial production in 1968 with the first exhibition of prototypes in Ljutomer (Slovenia). In April 1970 K67 was published in an English design magazine with the article "Low life from the streets" and the Museum of Modern Art in New York included it into its collection of 20th century design. The K67 was sold in large quantities not only to the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia, but also to the COMECON countries and other continents (eg. Japan and New Zealand). Due to the fact that the K67 principle is copied several times by other companies, K67 came to embody the Eastern European kiosk culture.
This looks to be a handy tool. You enter the body diameter, the rocket weight, drag coefficient, and the motor type and you get an estimation of how high it will go and even how long it will take to land if you add the parachute size. You can use it for other things too, like seeing if you could launch a full roll of paper towels into the air. You can, it takes about 3 D-12 motors. 🙂