Whole new realm of party balloons
Great potential to terrify your children if you hired this guy for a birthday party.
Big scary monster balloons
What is a Web Browser?
Anybody who has spent any amount of time playing the role of “family tech support guy” can appreciate this.
Luckily, Jason Toff at Google decided to act on this tedious endeavor by creating a website that defines and explains what a web browser is.
I’m forwarding this to my parents right now.
Gyromancer
A game by PopCap and Square Enix that’s a combination of Bejeweled Twist, Pokemon and Final Fantasy RPG-stylings?
My life as I know it has ended.
Penny Arcade sums it up perfectly.
via Penny Arcade
Google Wave
I’ve been observing Google Wave from the periphery trying to really wrap my head around it before I make any judgments as to how its usefulness or how it can apply to my work life. The above video succinctly describes a scenario where Google Wave will beat email hands-down in terms of multi-party collaboration on a project. And, like the author of the video says, it’s only “…like 3.5%” of what Google Wave is capable of.
Now I’m interested.
via Lifehacker
LEGO Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube Solver
All of this was built and programmed using the Lego Mindstorms NXT Retail-kit. Awesome!
From Tilted Twister:
Tilted Twister solves Rubik’s cube fully automatically.
Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister’s turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read the colors of the cube faces using a light sensor. The robot turns and tilts the cube in order to read all the faces. It then calculates a solution and executes the moves by turning, tilting and twisting the cube.
Here’s a video:
Unclutter with Evernote
Being a religious user of Evernote, I’m always excited to find new ways to use it. Considering how our garage is now a blackhole of forgotten items (in bins), this is a great idea!
I already use Evernote for note-taking and receipt keeping, so storage inventory fits nicely into my world. For those of you unfamiliar with Evernote, here’s a little overview from Lifehacker.
Robot Coolness
This is pretty amazing. I can’t help but view this as yet another weapon in the arsenal of our future robot overlords, though.
Thanks for the link, Darren!
Distractions of the Digital Persuasion
Whoa, Nelly! An entire month passed without a new post to MCOJ? My apologies!
What better excuse than a post on digital distractions. 
via Information is Beautiful via Lifehacker
Microscopic Sculptures
The ship on the left is a hand-crafted sculpture by Willard Wigan. The thread and needle on the right is for scale comparison.
I echo Darren’s sentiment of: Whoa.
"You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat – the pulse of your finger can destroy the work." Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve microscopic figures out of rice, and fragments of grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pinheads. To paint his creations, he uses a hair plucked from a dead fly (the fly has to have died from natural causes, as he refuses to kill them for the sake of his art). His sculptures have included a Santa Claus and a copy of the FIFA World Cup trophy, both about 0.005mm tall, and a boxing ring with Muhammad Ali figure which fits onto the head of a match.”
Nice find, Darren!
via Amazing-Planet
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