FixMyTransport: Report, view and resolve public transport problems

http://www.fixmytransport.com/
Euston, we have a problem

AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY
also
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbYc7qLgBc

via MeFi

Music

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG7OzvSMBA

{

Major Tom (Coming Home) Peter Schilling

} http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsN3icByqUo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJmZHRIzhY

Segway to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kaiQ

via

http://www.fark.com/comments/6519044/Artist-turns-David-Bowies-Space-Oddity-into-illustrated-childrens-book-Spoiler-Ending-sure-seems-to-have-a-lot-of-space-dust-in-it?cpp=1

Children’s Hospice South West - Jasper's Walk

http://www.chsw.org.uk/jasperswalk
Please support them, if you can

Pronoun trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
I Demand That You Shoot Me Now! - YouTube

My Fave bit is when the duck says "Nugh!" - Cracks me up everytime

World Of Mysteries: Hilarious “I Have No Time to Explain” Posters (12 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/hilarious-i-have-no-time-to-explain.html

OK Go ft/ The Muppets: Muppet Show Theme Song | MilkandCookies

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/263724/detail/

FARK.com: (6493818) Dear FBI super-spies: Do not name your FBI surveillance van's wifi network "FBI SURVEILLANCE VAN"

http://www.fark.com/comments/6493818/Dear-FBI-super-spies-Do-not-name-your-FBI-surveillance-vans-wifi-network-FBI-SURVEILLANCE-VAN?cpp=1

Bulletproof Skin Made From Spider Silk : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/tech/bullet-proof-skin-110820.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

BBC News - IBM produces first 'brain chips'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14574747

As U.K. Releases UFO Files, Former UFO Project Chief Apologizes For 'Spin And Dirty Tricks' (Exclusive)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/uk-releases-ufo-files_n_927351.html
Coincident with yesterday's
Boing boing Paul Krugman: save the economy by staging an alien invasion hoax
and a film: Cowboys vs Aliens
A perfect BS storm

World Of Mysteries: Boost Your WiFi Signal With A Beer Can (7 pics)

http://www.themysteryworld.com/2011/08/boost-your-wifi-signal-with-beer-can-7.html

Arduino device mutes uninteresting celebrities on TV – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/16/arduino-device-mutes-unintersting-celebrities-on-tv.html

Fark: Garry Larsen is 61

http://www.fark.com/comments/6476202/Happy-61st-birthday-to-funniest-newspaper-cartoonist-of-all-time-Gary-Larson-From-talking-cows-to-chubby-women-in-beehives-he-brought-absurdity-into-our-homes-Share-your-favorite-cartoons-if-youve-got-em?cpp=1

Dangerous Minds | CAPTCHAs to keep idiots out of comment threads

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/captchas_to_keep_idiots_out_of_comment_threads/
Almost HB'd

Gelsight - Surface sensing

http://www.GelSight.com
http://www.gelsight.com/technology/

http://www.thatvideosite.com/video/surface_sensing_with_gelsight

Researchers demo 3D face scanning breakthroughs at SIGGRAPH, Kinect crowd squarely targeted -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/10/researchers-demo-3d-face-scanning-breakthroughs-at-siggraph-kin/

Hacking QR codes for fun and profit - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/08/09/hacking-qr-codes-for-fun-and-profit/

Phantom cam shoots 1 million frames per second – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/phantom-cam-shoots-1-million-frames-per-second.html

Bored by math class, student turns to squiggling – Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/09/bored-by-math-class-student-turns-to-squiggling.html

Asciiflow - ASCII Flow Diagram Tool

http://www.asciiflow.com/

Trickle of Salt Water -- on Mars : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/space/mars-salt-water-surface-110804.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1


http://spockisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/

http://www.fark.com/comments/6448709/NASA-find-running-water-on-surface-of-Mars-herd-of-buggalo-drinking-from-it-maybe-not-that-last-part?cpp=1

Hack the Vote 2011 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=6447109&l=https://www.eff.org/pages/hack-the-vote-2011