Chopstork

Parody of the creepy Big Dog robot from a couple weeks ago. Hilarious! Made by Seedwell.

via the Squid Who Laughs

It’s no lama lama duck, but there are only 3 words to learn:
bader bader mushroom

Any time aspergers disease comes up in conversation, “ass burger” of course comes to mind with a snicker. It turns out there are real life ass burgers. If you’re French…and Canadian.

I don’t know why aspergers comes up so often, by the way … there was a story a while ago about Silicon Valley possibly being a hotbed of aspergers or something.

via Neatorama

Wow.

What the god damn f-ing hell are the people in City Hall thinking? They spend $500,000 on dumb ass GPS units to track the transit system buses? The problem isn’t that we don’t know where the buses are—the problem is that they suck. They don’t run often enough and they don’t stick to their schedule.

Here’s the page where the buses are supposed to be mapped real time. Only works on IE, and you need the Adobe SVG viewer…. REALLY??? A $500,000 system that only works on IE?! IE isn’t supported by Macs. And a quarter of UVA students (and a whole lot of the rest of the population) use Macs. And SVG viewer??? Straight from the Adobe Download site, on the FIRST LINE: “Please note that Adobe has announced that it will discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer on January 1, 2009.” Plus, I’m assuming an SVG viewer isn’t going to work any portable internet savvy device (iPhone, crackberry).

They installed little interactive screens at some of the stops, but guess what… they’re only at some of the stops! What the hell good does that do if I’m not at one of those stops?! Even if my stop does have one—great thanks, I trekked out to the bus stop in the rain only to find out that my bus is 20 minutes behind schedule so I get to wait here and get wetter while watching a blinky light taunt me for 20 minutes… because I couldn’t check it before I left my home because I don’t have god damn Internet Explorer.

Here’s a big DUH-UH-UH-UH-UH to the city of Charlottesville on this one.

story and a lot of the links via cvillenews

… I changed my mind, I’m not done. Didn’t Curt (remember Curt, the really smart dude that we worked with that could do anything?)—didn’t he intern for a trucking company and make a system to track their trucks that just used regular old pagers? Definitely didn’t spend $500k on it either. So even if Cville thinks it really really needs a new tracking system, there are way cheaper ways to do it! Ok now I’m done.

Once upon a time there was a dog. A dog named Dule.

Dule made a doodie. But the doodie stuck to her booty. She must have eaten some hair. Dule did not notice the doodie stuck on her booty.

Her owner tried to tell her. Dule was busy digging a hole.

Then Dule thought something smelled funny. She looked at her butt, where smelly things usually appear. There was a doodie! This scared Dule!

She ran and ran and ran around the yard. But this doodie was chasing her. She could not get away. She dragged her rear on the grass. But this doodie was stalking her. It would not go away. Her owner said, “I’m not wiping your butt; you better figure it out.” She ran and ran some more.

And finally it let go. And Dule was happy.

Old Man, here’s to your “some day we’ll all have robots to do our jobs for us so we can do fun stuff all day,” theory.

via Laughing Squid

This has to be one of the coolest games ever

The game is still in development, but there’s a simpler version available for download here

I think this is how a lot of our friends are feeling right now. Me too.

Ken Robinson, on how our education system is designed to kill creativity. I watched it and bought his book.

via Fresh Creations

One of my favorites (even though I only did it once), Bring Your Own Big Wheel (BYOBW) is on this Sunday at 5pm. They moved it to Vermont St, on good old Potrero Hill. From the pictures last year on Lombard St, it looked like there were crazy huge crowds! Guess they messed up the foliage a little much and had to move.

Here’s us riding down Vermont St. In a car. After Monkey Bowls at Lingba. Scott frantically keeping us on the road.