Human Clock

This site is very cool - a live clock which tells the time with user-submitted clock photos. Continually pulling new sets of photos, and coordinating with your computer's clock, Craig Giffen's site is a very cool digital art project.

Here are some of the best from a half hour period.


7:57 - San Francisco CA
7:59 - Avon Beach, England
8:01 - Marhamchurch, UK
8:08 - Waukesha, Wisonsin
8:20 - Pleasant Hill CA
8:26 - On Clinton Street, Portland OR

And check out this awesome hometown contribution - from Maple Ridge, BC.


...and by 8:07 Fluffy was licking the electrical socket again, yearning for it all to stop

Amazing Futurama Quotes

I'm bored. Futurama rules.

If you're not yet a fan, perhaps a brief break for funny quotes will cure both my insomnia and your extreme ignorance.

Nibblonian: You are the last hope of the universe.

Fry: So I really am important? How I feel when I'm drunk is correct?

Nibblonian: Yes - except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock.

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Oh, dear, I should have shown him "Electrogonorrhea: the noisy killer" instead.

Fry: All right. It's Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape... Let's rock.

Amy Wong: You just have to give guys a chance. Sometimes you meet a guy and think he's a pig, but then later on you realize he actually has a really good body.

Bender: Shut up and pay attention to me, Bender! Look, I love life and it's pleasures as much as anyone here, except perhaps you, Hedonism Bot. But we need to be shut off! Especially you, Hedonism Bot.

Hedonism Bot: I apologize for nothing!

Leela: Bees communicate by dancing.
Fry: Just like my parents! Oh wait, that was hitting.

[Fry is in a Captain Pike-style life-support machine]
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Do you understand the charges?
Kif Kroker: One beep for yes, two beeps for no.
[Fry beeps once]
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Yes, so noted. Do you plead guilty?
[Fry beeps twice]
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Double yes. Guilty.

That's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid and unexpected things make them feel scared."

God: Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.

Bender: Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money.

God: Yes, if he makes it look like an electrical thing.

Bender: Come on, universe, you big, mostly empty wuss! Give me all the juice you got!

Whenever you're in Cody, Wyoming, just ask for Wild Bob

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. A great writer; a great thinker; a great humanist; a great man.

Chicago Robot Attack!

The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is a fantastic storehouse of all kinds of awesome.

But let's skip the handshakes and get right to the robot exhibit!

Robots Like Us is a fantastic collection of twentieth century toy robots, mainly retrofuturistic ones from Japan in the 1960's!


Way more amazing photos in my album. I don't know why it's okay to take photographs in museums but not galleries, but hey - don't mind if I do!

Yes. Yes. Yes. Dancing Robot Baby Love.

I'll post more on this amazing robot, designed for non-verbal interaction and play with infants and children, later.

In the meantime... I can't stop watching this incredible, wonderful video: