Archive for March, 2008
The Big Dog
March 17th, 2008
This thing makes me feel extremely uncomfortable. The technology behind the “big dog” is really quite impressive (notice how it recovers after a fall), but it’s such an “uncanny valley” sort of beast.
Reverend Canaan Banana
March 15th, 2008
Diplomat, minister and first president of Zimbabwe, Rev. Canaan Banana held that country’s highest office between 1980 and 1987.
He was later imprisoned on 11 charges of sodomy.
Banana had some difficulty investing the office of president with the required aura of reverence and in 1982 a law was passed in Zimbabwe forbidding jokes about the president’s name, though it continued to invite cheap jibes, illustrated later in such headlines as “Man raped by Banana[.]”
He died of cancer in 2003. He is survived by his wife, Janet Banana.
A Paper Moose
March 1st, 2008
Robert J. Lang is a truly brilliant origami artist. He does it with math.
His galleries are spectacular.