Quiddity

Would you eat your friends if you were trapped in a blizzard?

48%

Only 48%?  Hmmmmm...that can't be right.  I mean, I've watched Alive, like, 10 times!  I would never kill my friends for food in order to survive.  However, if they had already died, then it's chow time.  What would you do?

Link via neatorama.     

RIP Brad Renfro & Heath Ledger

First Brad Renfro (read the nice words Sir Ian McKellen had to say about him on his blog), and now Heath Ledger!  How depressing.  They were both so talented. 

God, Terry Gilliam is one unlucky bastard!  His films are cursed.

Walking Away From It

          

Here's the cover art for my fictional band's cd.  Pretty groovy, huh?  Here's how you can create your own:

• Your band name comes from the first article title of a random wikipedia entry.
• Your album title is the last four words of the final quote on this page.
• Your album cover art is the 3rd picture on this page of random Flickr images.
• You're on your own when it comes to editing it.  As you can see, my photo-shopping skills aren't so hot.

Meme via GitM and Lots of Co.

Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie

             

Robots evolve to communicate and learn how to lie for their own benefit.  Um, that's not good.

By the 50th generation, the robots had learned to communicate—lighting up, in three out of four colonies, to alert the others when they’d found food or poison. The fourth colony sometimes evolved “cheater” robots instead, which would light up to tell the others that the poison was food, while they themselves rolled over to the food source and chowed down without emitting so much as a blink.

However, there were some hero robots who "died" to save other robots from harm.

Ranch Sells Beef for Dinner, Bones for Surgery

Turns out that the most valuable parts of cows are the ones that can be sold to medical companies.  They're using pituitary glands, bones, heart muscles and hides to make things such as bone screws and artificial skin.  Weird.

Tough times in the commodity beef market in 1975 forced Prather Ranch to scale back its herd. No new animals have been introduced since. In a lucky coincidence, closing the herd turned out to be great for business. Combined with the cattle's long-time strict vegetarian diet, the closure ensures that cattle have never been exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease, which first emerged in the 1980s.

The Rickerts' unique situation brought them to the attention of a company looking for a safe supply of cowhides to turn into collagen, often used for lip injections. After constructing a custom abattoir, or slaughterhouse, in 1995, they began to attract attention from other medical and pharmaceutical companies.

BSG Future

Here's a new teaser trailer for Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica.  The wait is making me crazy!

Born Again '80s

Born Again '80s is a music blog that focuses on 80's music that has been remixed, covered, or mashed up.  Even if you're not a fan of remixes, you should still check it out for the snippets of trivia & videos that are featured in each post. 

Batdance! 

Link via robot action boy.

Knitted Frog Dissection

      

What kind of a morbid person would come up with a knitted dissected frog?  Wish I had thought of it.

Link via neatorama.

Ice Piano

China has unveiled an ice piano that actually plays music.  Cool!

Great Clocks of Christendom

                           

Great Clocks of Christendom

"I love elaborate clocks - particularly the large, public clocks of the late Middle Ages, and others inspired by them. The best tell not only the time, but considerable astronomical information with various hand and dials - more elaborate models including the month and date; the position of the sun, moon, and zodiac on the ecliptic; the nodes and phases of the moon; and even eclipses and the computus for Easter. The most beautiful have geocentric models of the universe; medieval symbols of the zodiac and seasons; humorous allegorical statues and automata, clock-jacks ringing bells on the hour, crowing roosters or singing cuckoos, mechanical organs, and processions of tiny statues. They are among the most engaging works of art or mechanics ever created."

Marc Jacobs bags Victoria Beckham

            

How funny are these Marc Jacobs ads featuring Victoria Beckham?  I don't why people are always giving her such a hard time.  I love her, bad boob job and all.