Little red wagon

[Thanks to Kirk.]

Very kewl custom car.

Weezer offered $10m to split up

Weezer offered $10m to split up, Guardian article.

A group of frustrated music fans want Weezer to break up, and they're willing to pay them. Claiming the band has never improved on their 1996 album Pinkerton, the organisers of a new campaign hope to raise $10m to convince Weezer to pack it in and stop "disappointing" fans. "This is an abusive relationship," the project's creator said. "It needs to [end]."

Too flippin' funny.

Ganesha in Copenhagen

Our friend Ganesha Games is currently visiting Copenhagen.
He writes these observations:

• All Danish women are cute, long-legged blondes with a bicycle and a miniskirt. For some reason, they all dress in black.
• All Danish speak English, making learning the Danish language pointless. Today I was approached by a bum, told him "sorry I do not speak Danish" and he replied in English " Well sir, I was just asking you for some change to buy a bus ticket".
• There are more bicycles in Copenhagen than mysteries in Nature.

Ouch

Ever photograph a golf ball hit by a master, while it's still inches from your lens? Bet he got a black eye, there's speed in them things.

Unit automatically becomes portable when carried

[Thanks to Cap Kirk]

Splendid optical illusions

Splendid optical illusions.

(This was made in a 3D printer!)

These were made in metal. Somehow!

The B.A.T. mobile

The Alfa Romeo B.A.T. mobile.

Propeller jetpack

A "jetpack" with propellers instead of jets. I guess it's safer. More so, it should be commercially available one day.

I just hope I get one before my neighbors, for I'm sure they'll be noisy!

Panasonic GH2

I said a couple days ago: "(I can't believe they haven't updated the GF1 yet. I hope they'll do something great with it, unlike with the G2, which was a pretty trivial update.)"

 Well, how about that. No GF2 yet, but there's a GH2, and it has just what I was looking for: (at least claims of) super-fast handling and autofocus (they say it's faster than a good DSLR!), and much-improved high-ISO performance.
It would surprise me if these are not real, and if they don't also make it into the next-gen GF camera. Kewl.

Update: Yes, it is super-fast, but it depends on the lens. The 14-140mm lens is designed to be extra fast. The older 20mm lens is much slower in focusing.

Aging rock stars

Google goggles

Embryonic technology, but very promising.

Scratched Glasses Give Perfect Vision For Any Eyesight

Scratched Glasses Give Perfect Vision For Any Eyesight, Gizmodo article.

I'd like to try those, I'm tired of changing 'round between normal and reading glasses alda time.
Hmm, of course they may not help me, since I got astigmatism on both eyes too.

Rasterbrillen or pinhole glasses (see comments):

Neeraj says that the world through the pinhole glasses looks "Funny - maybe like looking through a bug's or fly's eye. As I have mentioned: You have to get used to integrate the superposition of all the single pictures of every hole, which needs some time and training."