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Step aside, Segway, Here come the Honda U3-X
Honda developed the U3-X with technology originally developed for ASIMO the robot. Honda states that the “U” stands for unicycle and for universal. Check it out!
Archive for the ‘Strange’ Category
Why Can’t I Pay my Bills on Saturday?
While the rest of the world seems to be operating 24 hrs a day, banks and your service providers still operate on “business” days even when it comes to internet banking.
As I found out yet again, it is impossible to pay a bill, through your on-line banking service, on a weekend or holiday.
For some strange [...]
Toronto’s New Waste Bins. Convenient or Clutter.
its been a few months since Toronto introduced the new larger waste management bins in the city’s core. On the surface them seemed like a great idea. More room for recycling, more efficient for the collectors. But it turns out that so far they are just an eye sore and obstacle for pedestrians, wheelchairs and [...]
When Will It End
On my walk into work today I passed a newspaper bin and saw, in great big letters above the masthead, Oil: $97 CDN Dollar: $1.09 and Gold: $827. Whoa, that just crazy. Just checked the dollar, we passed $1.10 earlier this morning. Hold onto your bucks, this is not over.
List of 25 Things Every Person Should Do Once In Their Life.
Here’s a list from some science nerds at Cosmic Variance.
Found a utopian colony.
Integrate by parts.
Decode the Voynich manuscript.
Defy gravity.
Recover lost treasure.
Translate the pre-Socratics.
Make love on the 50-yard line.
Raise a pig and make sausage from it.
Lead a witness.
Outrun a bear.
Raise a point of order.
Memorize Paradise Lost.
Swoon.
Wake up in Vegas in a stranger’s house.
Collapse a wavefunction.
Run for [...]
iPod, a work of physics?
Turns out we have Albert Fert of Universite Paris-Sud in Orsay, France, and Peter Gruenberg of Germany’s Forschungszentrum Juelich to thank for the ability to squeeze and entire library of music into our iPods. They will split the $1.5 million prize for their independent discovery 20 years ago of an effect called giant [...]
Toronto Archeology Excavation
There is currently a “dig” going on at the corner of Adelaide and University beside a historical building. It appears that they have uncovered an old set of foundations. Archeologists have 4 months to excavate a former upscale neighbourhood before another is built.
Christopher Hume the Urban affairs columnist for the Star wrote: Brief window into [...]
Young People Fucking…no, this is not porn it’s a review. ;-)
The film festival opened yesterday in Toronto and I managed to see one of the many great Canadian films entered this year, Young People Fucking (YPF). By the title I am sure you are imagining a hot porno featuring young, tight bodies going at it like rabbits. Well, you would be half right.
The cast is [...]
Late Fragment, North America’s first interactive dramatic feature film
Heads up to everyone: NFB/CFC will debut North America’s first interactive feature film at TIFF next month. I will be posting screening/event dates and times soon. There has been some good media pick-up about this film and I invite you all to post blogs, digg it, del.i.cious, etc. Here’s an article from The National Post last week, [...]