Athens Multi-Screen Monitor Makes Me Cry – Gizmodo

Gizmodo gets it just right: so lovely it makes me cry.

Wonder if there’s a turbo-charged mouse to get from one end to the other?

BBC NEWS | Business | Dogs’ fate gnaws at HK Disneyland

Jeff Randall on Radio 4 did a great piece on the opening of the HK Disneyland. Sounded like an overwhelming day in terms of humidity, queuing and desultory protests, accompanied by the clang of cultures realigning without synchromesh.

ISTR that he avoided saying either ‘chairman mouse’ or ‘mickey mao’so I thought I’d fill the punning void 😉

The doggy title made me think it was on the menu (after all, it was only in June that Sharks’ Fins came off the menu) but the story’s about a clear-up around the area… One sighting of a giant Goofy
should’ve been enough to clear the area.

Cockney suits abuse f**king email | The Register

Brilliant. While anecdotal and personal experience would of course confirm the ‘robust’ nature of email exchange, I just love the fact that someone’s put in the time to do the survey. Or then maybe they didn’t…? Who’s going to check 🙂

Ah – August in the city!

Really, this ‘tongue in cheek’ yet earnest site should be in the ‘webshite’ category, but “Stuff” was too easy a pun to miss..

In case you thought this was just a recent craze…

Competitive eating is among the most diverse, dynamic and demanding sports in history. It dates back to the earliest days of mankind and stands alongside original athletic pursuits such as running, jumping and throwing. If you have 30 hungry Neanderthals in a cave and rabbit walks in, that is a competitive eating situation. Of course, in the last two centuries competitive eating has been practiced with somewhat more formality.

International Federation of Competitive Eating – IFOCE

Linked from a BBC News article.

Balloon Bazooka the Ultimate Water Balloon Launcher

Oh yes – Gotta get me one o’these!

Our Basic or Entry Level Model can launch a balloon over 300ft. It has a small air tank, great for folks who don’t own an air compressor or are on a budget…

Entry level? “Folks who don’t own an air compressor”? I’m on a different, amateur level to these guys, but one look at the picture of them on the home page makes you realise that these are fun-luvvin’ professionals. I’m adding an Air Compressor to my Christmas List!

$99 is pretty good for this weapon-grade fun. Wonder if it’d get through UK Customs… 😉

Lost in Translation

What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? The authors of the Systran translation software probably never intended this application of their program. As of September 2003, translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of “Telephone”? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained. Try it for yourself!

The results can be a bit hit and miss, but there are some real gems.

“up and away in my beautiful balloon” becomes “for the distant and moved ascent far in pretty aerostat of the mine”. Er, exactly 🙂

Google Moon – Lunar Landing Sites

How much fun is this? In honour of the manned moon landings of 1969 (er – why honour them now?) Google has ‘adapted’ its mapping software to map the landing areas.

Fun to see the surface of the moon and zoom ever closer… Just select the maximum zoom for the fun revelation 🙂

Great. The FAQs are funny too. What a fun place to work 🙂

Pistake Urinal – For When You Have to Know :
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Thanks Gizmodo 🙂