by Tomislav Safundžić

Just in time for the weekend. Thanks science.

Been busy and the bookmarks have been piling up so this is a somewhat larger collection and all over the place at that.

First, Space & Science stuff:
• June 30 to be 1 second longer
• Mars Reality Show Could Fund Manned Colony by 2023
• How Humans Could Get to Mars in Weeks, Rather than Months
• BBC’s Space Travel Guide
• Researchers Test Infinite-Capacity Wireless Connection

Internet/Computers stuff:
• Pre-computer chess algorithm by Alan Turing goes up against Grandmaster Kasparov
• We know what your doing: a social networking privacy experiment
• Because of Google Ads, TV Tropes Deletes Every Rape Trope
• List of Worthwhile DOS Games

Sports!
• London’s wildly over-budget Olympics (101% over and counting)
• The US Olympic running team’s upcoming coin toss decision its 387-word procedure

And other things of very different tones (sorry)
• More than 200 church leaders across the US now say they no longer believe in God
• Conservative Rabbis Approve Gay Marriage
• Girl Found Alive In Dead Mom’s Arms After Tornado Throws Them From Home
• Journalist Natasha Smith’s account of being sexually attacked in Cairo
• Fan gets kicked out of Kenny Chesney concert for looking too much like Kenny Chesney
• Skater Punk Gets Stuck in Soda Machine, Needs Jaws of Life Rescue
• Swedish police appeal for help to find girl’s missing teddy
• Warren Ellis on the fiction of money
• Video: Nick Offerman Read Tweets from Young Female Celebrities
• Videos: 10 Essential Dirty Phrases in Sign Language
• Announced! The Big Lebowski 2: The Dude Goes To Washington
• Letters of Note: Helen Keller’s letter to Mark Twain in lieu of being unable to attend a Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind conference

So I wanted to post about this robot developed at Tokyo Uni’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory that uses a high-speed camera to predict how a human hand moves during a game of paper-scissors-rock, allowing it to react within one millisecond…

But then I scrolled down to see the youtube comments and as always, they’re the wonderful antithesis of horror and hilarity.

It’s only taken five years since the release of Team Fortress 2 and the debut of their awesome “Meet the…” promo shorts, but “Meet the Pyro” has finally been released and it is oh so darkly funny.