Camera/projector

Nikon has made a camera with built-in projector. I can see how that can be useful, for example for a quick show of pictures you've just taken at a family party.

Pablo Reinoso design

Pablo Reinoso design.

Moon publicity

I hope this either is a joke, fails, or gets outlawed.

Book sequel

Here's a good one from aforementioned show Gavin And Stacey. It had me rolling on the floor.
We cut to a quiet middle class home. Two women (stable characters) are sitting reading. One of them are reading this book.
She closes it with finality, and they have a brief chat about the satisfaction of finishing a book. The other woman is reading the Satanic Verses, and she says it's tough going.
Then the first woman says: "well, I think I'll get cracking on the sequel." And she picks up this book. She says "Same author... he's had a terrible time of it."

Sappy rainbow

I don't normally pass along sappy inspirational crap, but the happy ending of this one speaks to me... (warning, link not Safe For Work.)

Wine label banned

[Thanks to Jim.]

Wine label banned, business booms, article.

ATM theft

If your card is apparently confiscated by an ATM machine, beware of this scam. Very clever.

Chilluns going

[Thanks to Mad Cap Elron.]

A man was walking in rural Florida, and he saw a toddler playing by the river, when sudden a crocodile leaped out of the water, snapped up the child and was gone in flash.

Shocked, the man ran to the nearest house where a middle-aged man with a straw hat was sitting on the porch smoking a corn pibe.

Short of breath, the man told about the sight he'd just seen by the river. The man with the hat took his pibe out of his mouth and regarded him for a moment. Then he turned to the house and yelled: "Maw! See? I told ya sommin was gittin' those chilluns!"

Frozen milk

[Thanks to Ian.]

Anybody figure out how they do this?
At first I thought it was time-frozen picture of thrown white liquid, but now I'm leaning towards a latex-substance which is then dried. But how they get it in the splash formations, I can't figure.
... No, some of it is drops in the air, so part of it must be time-freeze. But I don't think all of it, you couldn't control it.

Gavin and Stacey

I'm watching the second season of Gavin And Stacey (US link and UK link), and it just keeps going.

It's technically a sitcom, but it's one of those news spawn of the Golden Age of television where you don't really know what you have. It does not have that age-proven formula for sitcoms where even if you don't understand the language, you can hear from the rhythm when you're supposed to laugh. You know: set-up... response... punch line.
No, this is something new. It could be real life, except it's just damn funny. Warmly recommended!

Two sides x2

[Thanks to Ian.]

Two car salesmen were sitting at the bar.

One complained to the other, "Boy, business stinks. If I don't sell more cars this month, I'm going to lose my ass."

Too late he noticed a beautiful blonde sitting two stools away.

Immediately, he apologized for his bad language.

"That's okay," the blonde replied, "I can relate; if I don't sell more ass this month, I'm going to lose my car.

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A couple had been married for 50 years.
They were sitting at the breakfast table one morning when the wife says, 'Just think, fifty years ago we were sitting here at this breakfast table together.'
'I know,' the old man said. 'We were probably sitting here naked as a jaybird fifty years ago.'
'Well,' Granny snickered. 'Let's relive some old times.'
Where upon, the two stripped to the buff and sat down at the table.
'You know, honey,' the little old lady breathlessly replied, 'My nipples are as hot for you today as they were fifty years ago.'
'I wouldn't be surprised,' replied Gramps. 'One's in your coffee and the other is in your oatmeal.

Spotify online radio service

Through The Lens pointed to Spotify, which is a an online "radio" service which seems to work even better than Pandora. You can choose music and sequence, and it does not seem to be limited to some countries unlike Pandora (last I checked). I wonder how they got around all those legal barriers? Or if they really have. For a while there I could use Pandora in UK, but that was blocked later.

So far, I'm impressed. Right now I'm listening to a CD I'd heard about but never had a chance to hear, a 1994 collection of covers of songs of one of favorite Danish bands in the seventies. I'd never expected to find a reasonably rare Danish item in a second after my first search.

Update: it seems that Spotify, refreshingly, is started in Europe or UK. And not yet available in North America. See comments for more info.