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| Farewell |
| 03.23.05 (5:48 am) [edit] |
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This has been a decision that I've pondered over for many months now, finally blossoming into a reality. Well, I thought about it this morning on the pot and decided to just call it quits. I'm bored of it and frankly don't get enough respect...
Doctor Thalamo's Secret Brain Lair will exist no more.
I have moved on to bigger and better projects, and cannot waste time on this tblog shizer anymore. I want to thank Robin Z, Van Helsing, and Darth Leigh for their continued support (and unsupportive thoughts and comments) throughout the past year. So to the three of you, I will keep you posted on my future endeavors. For the rest, who cares...
Oh! And Darth, just so you know - you've been flirting with a dude this whole time.
Yep, that's right... Robin Z is a dude. Classic.
I now leave you with one, final blog.
Is Jesus A Zombie?
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| The Millimeter Wave |
| 03.17.05 (12:52 pm) [edit] |
Ah, the new “personal security” firm Quinteq... their latest mad scientist invention may yet prove to be their greatest. They’re calling the technology Millimeter Wave, and scanners based on the device can “see” through walls and clothes, something that the pervs and homeland security officials will love alike. Apparently they are also working on a “hyperspectral sensor” which picks up stress pheromones in the air.
Van Helsing could've used this to spy on Kate Beckinsale, but instead he used it on Robin Z and Darth Leigh's sleep over last night. Yowza!
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| The Bike Tree |
| 03.17.05 (12:40 pm) [edit] |
The Bike Tree is the perfect solution for your city or school. Simply swipe your smart card, enter your PIN and watch as your bike is hoisted up into the glass canopy, filling out a bike rain forest of sorts. Perfect for bike sharing or rental programs, the system was first installed in Geneva and is powered by solar power, but your bike is still accessible 24/7.
 
No jokes on this one - I think I actually like the idea...
(it could be cooler looking though...)
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| The Newest "Night Light" |
| 03.17.05 (12:04 pm) [edit] |
Design team Suck UK brings us the ultimate in trendy simplicity: a nightlight whose encased bulb recharges from natural light during the day, and glows ethereally at night. Functional, aesthetic and environmental for $45 — your nightstand could do worse.
Too bad Robin Z can't get one - he spends 20 hours a day playing flight simulation games in his basement blocking all forms of light except for the eerie glow coming from his monitor. Creepy right?
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| Walking Forest Machine |
| 03.16.05 (7:39 am) [edit] |
Just in time for the new Stars Wars movie! This technological mastery in lawn motors is crazy-looking... it's probably the number cause of Ewok-related deaths.
The walking forest machine is Plustech's best-known innovation. The goal of product development was to create a machine that has the best possible working stability and minimum impact on the terrain
The walking machine adapts automatically to the forest floor. Moving on six articulated legs, the harvester advances forward and backward, sideways and diagonally. It can also turn in place and step over obstacles. Depending on the irregularity of the terrain, the operator can adjust both the ground clearance of the machine and heigh of each step.
 The common Ewok, has lived a tragic life, slowly being wiped out by Walking Forest Machines and unable to find work as being typecast from The Return of the Jedi.
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| P. Diddy Wants to be James Bond |
| 03.15.05 (10:23 am) [edit] |
Listen, that's fine if P Diddy wants to be the first black James Bond character... hell, we all have dreams. I wish my blog was cool. But you learn to deal with what is within your own, personal boundaries...
...for P. Diddy, he should realize that James Bond is British so his dream has now been forever shattered.
The Diddster (I made that one up) was on Conan the other day and this is what transpired:
Conan: I read that you wanna be the first black James Bond in the movies. Is that true?
Diddy: Yes. Definitely.
Conan: Change the name?
Diddy: Yes. It's a new time. We're taking the Bond imprint of what he stood for, but we gon'
remix it. My name's gonna be Robert Ground.
Conan: So instead if saying: "Bond, James Bond." You're gonna say: "Ground, Robert Ground."
Diddy: Robert Ground. It's serious. I'm about to announce the deal next week.
Conan: Is Ground gonna be from England or is he gonna be from America?
Diddy: He gon' be from Harlem. It's America baby! This is our turn!
Conan: Is he gonna have Martinis?
Diddy: Everything. He's gonna be a younger version of Bond.
Conan: When are we gonna see this?
Diddy: It should be out in the next 20 months or so.
Conan: He's gonna be cool. Is he gonna need a side kick?
Diddy: He's gonna have a whole ensemble. It's gonna be a new way to tell it. It's gonna be
edgier.
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| Clocky |
| 03.15.05 (10:12 am) [edit] |
Okay, I've blogged some cool shit before but this tops the cake!
Clocky is a clock for people who have trouble getting out of bed. When the snooze bar is pressed, Clocky rolls off the table and finds a hiding spot, a new one every day. It was created at MIT by god-who-knows, but it's a freakin' sweet-ass innovation.
Actually, I'm kinda bored about this already and I haven't even posted it yet. I have never in all my days EVER hit the snooze button.
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| How Compatible Are You With Jude Law? |
| 03.15.05 (10:05 am) [edit] |
After Chris Rock took a few jabs at Jude Law during the Oscars' opener, the actor was outraged and dumped his talent agent the very next day. It made me wonder how compatible Jude and his agents really were...
...and what the chances are that I could be more compatible with Jude, thus becoming his new agent making him the world's greatest star of all time!
Using Facade's Bio Rhythym website, I was able to mathematically figure out how compatible the two of us really are. Facade has a pretty big list of celebrities that you can you test bio rhythyms with!
(By the way, Jude and I were only 59% compatible... damn)
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| Self-Destruct DiskOn Key |
| 03.14.05 (1:14 pm) [edit] |
Are you a government spy? A private eye? Neither, but still enjoy the cool gadgets that they get to play around with?
In the event that someone really is trying to crack into your files, the KeyPoint CMS has a built-in failsafe procedure that will delete all data on the drive after an excess number of invalid access attempts. With such robust data protection, the drive is actually compliant for use in the medical industry, which is supposedly a big deal.
While searching Google Images for a cool spy shot to use, I came across this camera... nothing really to do with the blog, but still pretty sweet!
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| Could "Mini" Be Taking Over As the Newest Fad? |
| 03.10.05 (9:33 am) [edit] |
I tell ya - in a nation always talking about bigger being better, i think the coolest fads as of late are the "mini"-sized ones. The BMW Mini Coop, Mini Me (sidekick of Doctor Evil, evil classmate of Doctor Thalamo), iPod minis, so on and so forth. Even those lab coat-wearing, uncool physicists who can't gain any respect have finally understood what's cool. To them, it's mini black holes... the famous Cern lab, near Geneva, Switzerland (physics geeky HQs) has jumped on the trendy bandwagon.
Their newest gadget, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will probe deeper into matter than ever before. Due to switch on in 2007, the LHC is designed to probe beyond our current understanding of physics. A while back, scientists discovered all kinds of mysterious rays, X-rays, cathode rays, alpha and beta rays. Where did they come from? Were they all made of the same thing, and if so what?
The hopes are that the LHC will help understand these questions and more, such as dark matter, by producing mini black holes. The LHC will recreate the searing-hot conditions that existed just fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Scientists hope this will enable them to see new physics, and discover the sought-after Higgs boson, or "God particle", which explains why matter has mass.
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| Cool Stuff For Blind People |
| 03.10.05 (6:24 am) [edit] |
Granted, I would probably rather have a seeing eye dog, but this is not a bad substitute! Sound Foresight is now shipping their new UltraCane, a white cane for the blind and vision-impaired that uses echolocation (similar to how dolphins and whales "hear") to determine what obstacles lie ahead.
The main difference between this type of echolocation and that of a dolphin, is that the dolphin uses echolocation primarily for evil purposes of killing inferior animals for sport.
Using ultrasonic waves, the cane detects objects in the path of a user and relays them through buttons on the cane’s handle. The buttons vibrate based on the user’s direction and distance to an object, allowing them to physically perceive what’s in front of them and break that nasty tripping into trash cans habit. $769 from Sound Foresight, includes instructions in Braille. Seriously, it does.
 Just like Big Daddy Cane!
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| Voodoo Knife Rack |
| 02.25.05 (11:57 am) [edit] |
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The Voodoo Knife Rack brings a festive look to anyone's kitchen!
Bring one home to the mrs. or just don't ever think of actually buying one - your decision, pal. I'd be more an asshole on this one, but the last thing I want is someone to actually purchase one of these god-awful things and then I wind up dead with unindentified knife wounds all over my body....
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| The Toaster Lamp |
| 02.25.05 (11:51 am) [edit] |
German Product Design Company Sternform designed a Toaster that also is a lamp and lets users watch the toast process. The Toaster Lamp is making toast a stylish thing to do on the kitchen table.
 
Man, I really hate Germans...
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| Entire Galaxies Made of Dark Matter |
| 02.24.05 (1:36 pm) [edit] |
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Astronomers have discovered an invisible galaxy that could be the first of many that will help unravel one of the universe's greatest mysteries. Theorists have long said most of the universe is made of dark matter. Its presence is required to explain the extra gravitational force that is observed to hold regular galaxies together and that also binds large clusters of galaxies.
The theory suggests that pockets of pure dark matter ought to remain sprinkled across the cosmos. In a cluster of galaxies known as Virgo, some 50 million light-years away, scientists looked for radio-wavelength radiation coming from hydrogen gas. They found a well of it that contains a hundred million times the mass of the Sun. It is now named VIRGOHI21. The well of material rotates too quickly to be explained by the observed amount of gas. Something else must serve as gravitational glue.
For those of you not in the know, "dark matter," is material of an unknown nature that can't be seen.
Doctor Thalamo's Space Factoids:
- Radio telescopes detect the dark matter.
- Dark matter makes up about 23 percent of the universe's mass-energy budget
- Normal matter, the stuff of stars, planets and people, contributes just 4 percent
- The rest of the universe is driven by an even more mysterious thing called dark energy.
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| Charge Cell Phones With Air? |
| 02.24.05 (1:28 pm) [edit] |
Students at the Department of Industrial Design at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have attached a turbine with a mobile phone that helps charge it even when the user is travelling.
"The electricity generated by the turbine when moved by wind energy could charge a cellphone in an emergency. It generates electricity to the tune of 3 to 4 watts which is sufficient to charge a mobile phone," some fucking brainiac said.
The primary objective of the device is to extend mobile 'connectivity' where there is no electricity. The electricity could also be used for other purposes such as illumination and playing a radio.
The device is best suited for coastal areas where the wind flows almost continuously. Or near Robin Z, who blows so much hot air outta his mouth when he talks, he could power the entire city of New York for 3 years.
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| Star Wars: Episode III Spoiler |
| 02.24.05 (9:49 am) [edit] |
This is an incredible, and probably illegal, hack job that someone pulled off.
No, Van Helsing - not "hand job"... perv.
This is a pretty long page full of photos and plot points of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode III film due out this summer... the photo stills are great. Personally, I don't have much faith in this film, but still - I forced myself to only look at a few of the pics and not read a single thing, so not to spoil anything for me.
So don't click on the link if you want this movie to be a complete surprise!
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| Exhaust Flame Thrower Kit For Your Car! |
| 02.23.05 (1:53 pm) [edit] |
I think it's time we all invest in a making ourselves look much cooler on the road.
(God knows I could, driving around my grandma's wh ite, Pontiac Spitfire)
The UltraGear Exhaust flame thrower kit will allow you to shoot flames out of your exhaust at the press of a button!
Easy installation and detailed instructions insure compatibility with most exhaust systems.
...or so they say. You're telling me that I can have flames shooting out of the back of my car for $50?
I can't believe it. I shouldn't believe it. But I want to believe it. So I will definitely buy one!
I can see it now...
FYI - This is at the bottom of their site:
Is Flame Throwing dangerous?
If you use common sense, follow the instructions and generally don't jack things up you and your vehicle should be fine. Always make sure no one is behind your vehicle and that there is nothing that can catch fire. This kit is for off-road, show, or recreational use only. Not for street use. Professional installation recommended. BSeek LLC is not responsible for property damage or injuries caused by this kit.
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| Wikipedia |
| 02.23.05 (1:36 pm) [edit] |
Knowledge is free!
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia is finally getting some press time. For those of you not in the know, Wikipedia is an open-source program on the web where anyone anywhere can add to the largest known encyclopedia. Way more entries than Britannica Online...
The good?
You can find out about a lot of stuff quickly and easily, with each entry full of more and more links for you to dig deeper into (almost as deep as Robin Z digging into Rick Moranis' ass cavity).
The bad?
It's open up to the public to change, delete, and make up as much as you'd like! There are certain security standards in place, but definitely not much. If someone was in a bad enough mood they could potentially destroy 1,000s of hours of work with a click of a button...
The real bad?
Type in Robin Z and you get links to gay porn...
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| Spaceballs 2 |
| 02.23.05 (10:42 am) [edit] |
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Well, it ain't rumor no more! However, who's going to star in it (besides Mel Brooks), who's directing, etc... is all speculative at this point. Has it been too long for this to become a sequel? God, the first one was hilarious...
let's hope Mel has few more jokes up his sleeves.
taken from Playbill Magazine, interviewing Mel Brooks:
MB: I'm writing myself back into the Spaceballs sequel that I'm now writing, so you haven't seen the last of my face. Why another Spaceballs? It wouldn't feel right have anyone else play Yoghurt and the first one was the best experience I've had making a movie since Blazing Saddles.
Playbill: When can we expect that? MB: Best case scenario : a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario : a year after the new star wars opens. |
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| Aquariass |
| 02.23.05 (8:35 am) [edit] |
Great name, great concept... however, I do feel sorry for the fish.
I introduce to you, the Aquariass - half toilet, half aquariam...
not much to be said about this guy - it pretty much speaks for itself.
I wonder if you can keep Crap in there... Oops! I mean Carp!
Sorry - my dislexia can be a problem sometimes....
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| South Korean Homeless Get Snazzed Up |
| 02.23.05 (8:29 am) [edit] |
Some South Korean homeless are dressing in style after the government gave away thousands of fake designer garments confiscated by customs agents. The Korea Customs Service distributed more than 3,500 fake pieces in the southern city of Pusan this month with the permission of the fashion houses whose designs had been pirated. One homeless man, who asked not to be identified, said he appreciated the fancy threads.
"I don't care about the quality of the clothes, but these designs are quite trendy," the recipient said.
This is what I assume the situation is like over there:
Yeah, yeah - I know... Jackie Chan isn't even Korean. But hey! I don't spend too much time on this stupid blog - and he was the first asian actor I could think of so lay off me, pal... have another korean? Let me know and I'll photshop somethin' fierce, yo!
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| Busty Mouse Pads |
| 02.23.05 (7:11 am) [edit] |
Busty Mouse Pads for sale! This should go over great with pre-pubescant boys...
coppin' a feel whenever you'd like for a measely 20 bucks!
ohh-la-la!
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| Calling Paris Hilton |
| 02.22.05 (7:13 am) [edit] |
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Someone cracked Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick and now freaks and geeks everywhere have phone numbers and email addresses of all the top celebrities... Christina Aguilera, Lindsay Lohan, Vin Deisel, Seth Green, Dave Chappelle...
you name it!
Also hacked, since it was her PDA, Phone book, Camera, all in one, you can see celeb shots and text messages as well. Most celebs have turned privy to this hack and have changed numbers already, but it's worth calling Christina and wishing her a congrats on getting engaged!
Supposedly Bijou Philips woke up to 300 missed calls - mostly people from Ireland and the Netherlands calling from another time zone... classic stuff.
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| Math and Language Evolved Separately |
| 02.22.05 (7:08 am) [edit] |
A study of people with language difficulties suggests that mathematical skill evolved independently.
A team led by Rosemary Varley at the University of Sheffield, UK, studied three people with extensive damage to the brain's left hemisphere, including language areas. Two could not speak at all, and the third only in fragmentary sentences. All were competent calculators, though, able to solve simple subtraction, division and multiplication problems.
Most experts believe that understanding syntax is essential for processing mathematical statements. "We've blown that one to pieces, I think," says Varley.
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