Or Robots vs. Monkeys. Yeah that's right.

This guy makes the craziest watches I've ever seen. No formal education and a true tinkerer... If life were a role playing game, he's the guy you'd get to fix your broken airship.

A contemporary Japanese designer brings back ninja with her new "camouflage" dress for vulnerable women.

Utah Robotics Firm has been developing a robotic-assist exoskeleton for soldiers. The current model is tethered to a powerline, but the video shows a highly agile and able power suit.

The nuclear green sports drink from Idiocracy is about to become a real live product that you can actually buy.

It's got Electrolytes! It's what plants crave!

The clock in the Panthéon in Paris has been broken since the 60s, when it was smashed up by a disgruntled employee.

The UnterGunther is a Swiss-French urban explorers team whose activity is to restore the invisible parts of the heritage in total clandestinity.

In November 2005, the UnterGunther infiltrated the Pantheon of Paris and, with the help of their professional clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot, started to restore the abandoned monumental 1850 Wagner clock before its irreversible state of defacement.

Alexander Bichkov has been living in the Kologriv woods on his own for 20 years, hunting for food, terrorizing the local populace, and defying the police. Now he's dead. Kind of an interesting story.

Since this is primarily used by mountain climbers I guess it's not that big of a deal for them but you would never find me on this trail!

Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.

Some old skateboarding videos directed by Spike Jonze, the director of "Being John Malkovich" and the upcoming "Where The Wild Things Are."

The beginning of the end of mankind.

"Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology."

This guy repos million-dollar ships, drinks vodka.
Highlight:
"In case harbor officials noticed and tried to call for help on their cellphone, Hardberger had paid a witch doctor $100 to cast spells on the port's soccer field. The witch doctor marked the field with gray powder, a clear warning to believers in voodoo, the nation's dominant religion. No call ever went out."

Excerpt:
...A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population...

Cool....can't wait to see this on some real products.

Good to see some new computer solutions from Microsoft-- this is an interesting use of existing technology, but in its format, encourages a shared computing experience (not to mention the tactile analogies of a tabletop).

Continuing the theme of homemade organs from my last post, here are a couple of examples of a slightly different type.



Main link is a Bubble Organ built by a student at Art Institute of Chicago. Be sure and check out the video.



See extended for a Youtube video of an even radder homemade organ.

So I'm cruising the streets of J-Pan in my new vending machine skirt when all of a sudden this music comes out of nowhere...

Japan now has grooved roads that make driving musical. Perhaps the most annoying thing ever (See extended body for video). It would be an interesting way to control speed though, by grooving for songs that only sound good at a 65mph tempo.

The title and the clip due all the explaining

How to seal an open bag of chips without a chip clip or rubberband-- essential knowledge that I feel robbed not knowing until now.

A book of work by all different artists inspired by 8 bit videogames. Main link is a Russian website with scans of every page (though all out of order). There's some pretty awesome stuff there.

Those of you using Firefox can now post things to Mysterypig much faster than before! Just download the handy Firefox add-on and all your dreams will come true. Automatic install link in extended.

Two Youtube videos. The first is about the Cordyceps Fungus, which makes ants go nuts before it literally bursts out of their heads.


The second is about a parasitic worm which takes over a snail's brain and turns it into a pulsating bird-target so that the worms can move into the bird to reproduce.


Main link goes to wikipedia article about the Cordyceps fungus.