"But, she makes me feel young"

On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride's virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest

"Road" shuns cgi for authenticity

Director Hillcoat shot The Road at 51 real-world locations to give the R-rated film, which opens Wednesday, an extra dose of authenticity.

“For all the spectacle of CGI,” he said, “there’s something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame. It’s enjoyable for that fantasy aspect, but the book felt so much more real.”
Hillcoat and his team spent several months in preproduction matching scenes from the book to locations in states including Pennsylvania, Oregon and Louisiana.
“We referenced all these man-made and natural disasters, then went all around looking for that stuff — it’s all out there,” Hillcoat said.

Really?

Man, I am a fan of strange cinema. I loved Eraserhead and the Audition. But this. A mad sciencetist (is there any other kind?) Well I let you read the synopsis.

Two pretty American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany they end up alone at night with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day they awake to find themselves trapped in his terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. An older German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric system, in doing so bringing to life his sick lifetime fantasy "the human centipede".
Check out the stills. If you are feeling brave...

I don't need it. But I want it.

USB alien with illuminated tongue
This scary realistic alien toy modeled after the Alien movie series will sporadically stick its glowing red tongue out at you if you plug it into your computer via its USB cable

Kraft Craft

"The Stygian emptiness is without form. The void between the spheres was a stellar desert, sparsely dotted with small oases consisting of frozen chunks of dust and ice. Through it was moving something of determination , a vehicle of purpose and will.
It was moving at just below the speed of light. At such velocity , it was not viewable.
Traveling as such, it was more an experiment in physics than a spacecraft. It was the pinnacle of man's technological achievement . A chalice in which the sum of his knowledge starting with the first crude chiseled hand tool to the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, from the first rough loomed sail to fill with a virgin breeze, to the first man to hurtle heavenward on a pillar of flame."

A "good" Patient

In 1822 a French trapper named Alexis St. Martin was wounded in the abdomen by a musket blast. The resulting injury healed but left a fistula in the digestive tract that was open , a Doctor named Beaumont was intrigued by "almost being able to see the process of digestion" that he tied various foodstuffs such as roasted and raw meat to a piece of string and lowered it into the stomach and observed and noted the process of digestion.
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but, they tracked me down in Sasebo Japan for the $3015.00 in student loans

In 2005 the CPA audit of Iraqi oil revenue could not account for $ 8,800,000,000 .
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what could happen? They have a whole team of engineers on it....

In 1999. The Mars climate orbiter, a one hundred and twenty five million spacecraft was lost because of a mismatch between meters and feet. Lockheed Martin who designed and operated the craft for Nasa operates in english units. Nasa since the 1990s uses meters. After a 286 day flight the spacecraft  fired it's engine late and caused the craft to plunge deeper into the planet's atmosphere then designed to operate.
 It caused the orbiter to plow through the atmosphere and back into space. Where Nasa believes it "could"  now be orbiting the sun.
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better living through chemistry

A closed study in which twenty severe ptsd patients were given ecstasy(mdma) was done. The results were then observed and recorded. Out of all twenty patients. Twenty reported improvement in symptoms.

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robot art

Brian Despain's robot art is both nostalgic and non threating. Something novel for the genre'.

You didn't, you should.

A Peter Jackson tour de force. A truly unique bem (bug eyed monster) movie. Great overall gritty feel with undertones of apartheid. Get the dvd.

Is it because they are blue?

Let's get it out of the way to start with. Cameron delivers. His latest effort ten years in the making, Avatar is due for release. His filmography is stainless. Aleins, True Lies, Terminator 2, The Abyss. So why the fluttering in my stomach? I have seen the trailers, love the premise. But I can't get excited about it. Which might be a good thing.  I couldn't wait for Terminator Salvation. And then sat there afterword with ashes of disapointment in my mouth. But is it because the Avatars are blue? If they wern't blue would I take them more seriously?
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rhino says no, means no. Or is that a tusk in your pocket or are you glad to see me?

Young African elephants experiencing "musth" at a much earlier age have been seen mounting and killing rhinos. Meanwhile in India a herd of elephants got a hold of a quanity of rice beer got hammered and trampled a village in Assam. All and all sounds like a weekend at the Jersey shore.

Sound Advice

Men's Journal "How can we win the war on terror?"

Robert Baer(CIA vet, author.inspiration for Syriana) "We've got to get our minds around terrorism as a political problem.We can kill Bin Laden today- so what? He'll just become a martyr. We are going on seven years in Afghanistan. and the Taliban are still closing down schools in Kandahar. It's a joke. And iraq is a corpse that Petraeus keeps putting lipstick on to make it look alive. All the Iraqis are doing is cooperating to get American arms. Petraeus says it's thanks to Iran that they are keeping the peace. That's a extraordinary statement: Our main middle eastern enemy is keeping the peace for us? Were f**ked. What to do? Come home. Just come home. Impose visa's,make sure you know who is coming into the country,lock the cockpit doors, and be nice to Muslims here. The worst things we can do is to continually shed Muslim blood."