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BEATBOTS
Designed and built by Hideki Kozima, Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. It has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.

The Tanqueray brand is at it again. With the help of award-winning director Tommy Kuntz, composer John Frizzell and production company MJZ, the brand has created an exclusive web adventure show dripping with flavor. In this episode, Tony Sinclair and his crew search for the rare Rangpur lime and find much more – a new [...]

Take a peek at: The Baby Name Wizard.
You’ll find that names below are way out of date. Pity them if they still shuffle among the popularly-named people.
Ira - 1980s
Ida - 1980s
Etta-1970s
Gertrude - 1960s
Prudence - 1950s
Fanny - 1940s
Agnes - 1970s
Pearl - 1950s
Morton - 1950s
Mortimer - 1940s
Humphrey - 1890s
Mabel- 1950s
Augusta - 1930s
Bertha -1970s
Elmira - 1940s
Maude - [...]

I’m currently researching family structure in utopian communes, and i’ve just come upon a late 60s system of proslytizing used by the cult ‘Children of God.’ It’s a way to transfer the hippie ideals of free love into Christianity, because God is Love, and any expression of it is holy.
Flirty Fishing was a subset of [...]

I guess now that this is a video only blog, I better keep it up. Here’s an astonishing display of RC acrobatics

Lordi - Hardrock Halellujah
Finnish Hardrockers.Hard Rock Hallelujah!
Hard Rock Hallelujah!
The saints are crippled
On this sinners’ night
Lost are the lambs with no guiding light
The walls come down like thunder
The rocks about to roll
It’s the arockalypse
Now bare your soul
All we need is lightning
With power and might
Striking down the prophets of force
As the moon is rising
Give us the [...]

GIZMO
by Howard Smith Here we have perhaps the funniest collection of old footage I ever did see. It features many many hilarious people with their inventions, sideshow talents, and advice. The deepest desires of science are here revealed by a load of enthusiastic crackpots.
This movie is a collection of stories of people obsessed by [...]