Intern Abuse

What happens when you give interns cheap food and ask them to document the experience? Good things. Good things...

Working hard?

Liar. Play a cheesy game anyway.

The Art of Propoganda

This site has some AMAZING WW2 era propaganda posters for sale:

Looking through them, it is extremely interesting to dissect the visual mechanisms in which each artist created powerful feelings of patriotism, vulnerability, aggression, hope and (most predominantly) fear.

One of my favorite images shows a stylized German face in the shadows showing only the eyes with the tag "he’s watching you." The sharp edges, dark colors, mechanically "steel" figure and the inability to see a facial expression makes this image quite intimidating.

With few visuals and copy, the artist's intention of dehumanizing / vilifying the enemy and creating a sense of "danger" is well met.

In fact, there are so many excellent propaganda pieces on this site to discuss, a small but opinionated group of people from all over the world could (conceivably) post multiple comments to this Blog with their opinions and thoughts.

Bompie

What would happen if members of Stomp, the Blue Man Group, and David Bowie all had sex? (and what is the likelyhood that they havent already?)

Probably something like this.

Enjoy.

Another wonderful nugget from okflavor

Robotic Marvel

Today in Japan, a small robotic firm announced a fully autonomous humanoid robot that can perform tasks completely without human input or intervention of any kind. A robot that could reason and function completely alone.

In a packed news conference room, the robot was given a set of complex puzzles. Some tasks required reason and hand dexterity. Other tasks required the lifting and manipulation of weight that no human could manage.

The scientists flipped a small switch at the small of the robot's back, and quickly light blue robot moved, and began to observe its surroundings. With a glance, it viewed the puzzles before it, and then turned its electronic eye toward the eager sea of reporters.

Then, with its powerful and precise limbs, it pushed two of the blocks together and laid on top of them both. Getting comfortable on the boxes while turning it's back on the confused crowd of onlookers, the machine reached behind itself, flipped the switch at the small of it's back and went limp.

Clearly, the most human robot ever constructed. Simply amazing...