This robotic mule from Boston Dynamics appears to be in testing phase for use as a “packmule” for soldiers. In this video, you can see how agile and strong it is. Of course, I doubt its battery life and ability to operate in any sort of real world military conditions. None of that makes the video any less interesting though.

[via youtube.]

This muscley dog eats food off the table while balancing on his front legs. I am pretty sure he takes steroids. Or he’s the Jack Lalaine of the animal kingdom. It’s hilarious.

[via VH1 webjunk on iFilm.]

This is really, really well done. I have no idea who created this Simpson’s intro using real actors, or why, but it’s pretty great.

[via waxy.]

I am pretty good in the kitchen. I quite like the process of turning simple, fresh ingredients into a complicated meal. I also love to bake cookies. Nothing else, just cookies. I am terrible at brownies and cupcakes and cakes and pies. But cookies, cookies I can do. I experiment a lot. My latest, greatest recipe for chocolate chip cookies is an amalgam of quite few different ones that I’ve tried. I finally think it’s right, so I thought I might share it with you all. Let me know how it goes.

Chris DiClerichip Cookies
[makes 25 – 30 nice cookies)

2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda (NO powder)
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter MELTED
1 cup DARK brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups Ghirardelli MILK chocolate chips

- preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- butter the cookie sheets
- mix together the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda) and put to the side
- mix together the butter and brown and white sugars until creamy
- keep mixing and add in vanilla and eggs
- keep mixing and slowly add in the dry mixture (flour, etc.) until the whole thing is wet and sticky
- mix in the chocolate chips by hand
- bake for 13 to 15 minutes until the edges are brown. it’s ok if the middle seems soft
- cool that shit for like 5 minutes, get high, and eat the whole batch (25 – 30 cookies)

That’s it. Enjoy them.

Tony Jaa, star of Ong-Bak and the upcoming Tom Yum Goong, is quickly becoming my favorite (or maybe second favorite to Jet Li) living martial artist. The absolutely incredible acrobatic and athletic talent this guy brings to his martial arts is just awe inspiring. This video compilation of him giving various demonstrations is set to a Linkin Park song is just incredible. Enjoy.

(this is also a test of the new Google Video embed option.)

As usual, another brilliant appearance by Jon Stewart. This guy makes so much sense it hurts. Why oh why is the only reasonable political commentary coming from a guy on Comedy Central?

(This is also a test of the YouTube video embedding functionality.)

YouTube version can be found here.

[via screenhead.]

I have wanted a pair of decent looking, good performing, bluetooth headphones with iPod controls on them FOREVER. The only shit that has been available have been huge, nerdy, white, shit that I just don’t want. Finally TEN Technologies has released this very nice set of black headphones, the TEN Naviplay Bluetooth Headphones. Bluetooth, iPod controls for volume and track, works with cellphones as well, 8 hour battery life. They’re $200, but if they work as promised, I will be buying these soon. Dr. Bott has them already.

[via gizmodo.]

Human Upgrades is a company offering “DNA plastic surgery”, imporving on the body in ways we haven’t ever thought of. They offer “upgrades” in the categories of Simplicity, Lust, Hi-Tech, and Victory. Everything from single nostrils and one-piece teeth to multiple nipples and clitoris installations on palms. Very, very nice.

[via manny.]

Here is an awesome collection of Katamari Damamcy desktop wallpaper. I think might all be fan art, but I can’t read Japanese. There are some awesome images here.

[via drawn.]

Tony Jaa (Ong-Bak) and others show off their incredible martial arts/tumbling skills in the video. God, I love this shit. Enjoy.

[via alldumb.]

This is one of the best viral campaigns we have ever seen. Monk Mail, from CareerBuilder, is a brilliant little app where you select and customize a chimpanzee and record or type out a message to be delivered. The whole thing is powered by the underutilized technology from Oddcast, and it works so well, I can’t really believe it. This is funny shit.

[thanks to my long lost friend Lori and her little chimpanzee kids.]

I saw these brilliant macro photographs of tiny plastic figures on gourmet food a few months back. Recently boingboing found them, reposted on some Russian photographer forum. Of course, the original source is a French site which I think is the portfolio for a husband and wife (?) photography team. The effect of the figures posing on the food is absolutely fantastic. You must see these.

[via memory and boingboing.]