Friday, August 27, 2010

I have been back home for a few days now but I haven't spent much time really home, if you know what I mean. It's been really busy lately. There's still a music festival I have to attend to this weekend and, according to the plan, I'll get back to work and to posting early next week. Hang in there my friends.

Friday, August 6, 2010

It's that time of the year again. Finally! So I'm leaving tonight for a big trip around Europe. No laptop. I don't know what to tell you about the number of posts you'll be seing here in the near future. All I can say is I'll get back to work in 3 weeks, when hopefully the regular daily posting will resume too. Until then, here's a bunch of animals stacked on each other:

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The straddling bus, first exhibited on the 13th Beijing International High-tech Expo in May this year. In the near future, the model is to be put into pilot use in Beijing’s Mentougou District.

Proposed by Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co., Ltd, the model looks like a subway or light-rail train bestriding the road. It is 4-4.5 m high with two levels: passengers board on the upper level while other vehicles lower than 2 m can go through under. Powered by electricity and solar energy, the bus can speed up to 60 km/h carrying 1200-1400 passengers at a time without blocking other vehicles’ way. Also it costs about 500 million yuan to build the bus and a 40-km-long path for it, only 10% of building equivalent subway. It is said that the bus can reduce traffic jams by 20-30%.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Only in Japan: Meet Telenoid R1, a creepy-looking robot that was created to aid people with their long distance conversations. I don't know about the Japanese, but all that does is scare the shit out of me.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Monday, August 2, 2010

An Oklahoma judicial candidate is fending off a political attack from his daughter, who has taken out a local newspaper ad urging voters: "Do not vote for my dad!"

McClain County judicial hopeful John Mantooth's daughter and son-in-law paid for the quarter-page advertisement, which features a picture of the daughter's family, highlights cases in which Mantooth has been sued and lists a website the couple started, http://www.donotvoteformydad.com.

Mantooth said the bad blood stems from his 1981 divorce from his daughter's mother.

Jan Schill, 31, said she never has had a good relationship with her father and doesn't think he'd make a good judge.

"We just felt like it would be bad if he were to become a judge," Schill said in a telephone interview from her home in Durango, Colo. "I assumed that he would not appreciate it, but he's made so many people mad, I'm just another mark on his board of people's he's had a beef with."