Fallout: Dundee

The Fallout look is actually something of an improvement for the Dundee council building.

Lucy

We got our new cat just over a week ago (on the 9th). She's settled in very well, and took much less time to get comfortable in the house than I thought she would. Then again, she's already six years old so we probably shouldn't have expected her to be as jittery in a new place as a kitten might have been.

She looks fairly grumpy in most photos, though:

Please do it at a pub.

Apparently there's enough concern in the Japanese town of Toyohashi about drunkenness on trains coming up to Christmas and the New Year that they've started putting up these fantastic posters asking people to keep it at the bar:

I love the expression on the face of the guy in the foreground. He looks like he's about to give a stern narration to the viewer.

Via Gaijin Tonic.

Snow!

I don't know whether to be annoyed or happy about this.

Steampunk Star Wars

Drawn by Björn Hurri at Gorilla Artfare.

I love every photo of Dick Cheney

The 666 Club

Going through an old Photobucket account, I found this excellent image of Pat Robertson rocking out and throwing the horns:



I'm pretty sure I've posted it here before, but I still find it funny.

Cops from last night

Realisticats

This is one man's backlash at the "lolcats" phenomenon that's taken the internets by storm recently.

Some of them are a hell of a lot funnier than some of the lolcats images, too.

Electric Unicycle

A pair of 18-year-old Canadians have designed and built an electric-powered unicycle with a top speed of 40mph, which uses similar principles to the Segway scooter to maneuver.

Dubbed the Tango (or Uno, depending who's talking), the bike is based off a Yamaha R6 and was designed and built by the high school students for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in New Mexico.

It looks dangerous as all hell, especially if you're talking about moving at 40mph, but I can see it being quite fun, so long as you're all padded up properly. The designers are hoping to get the Tango to market, with particular designs on bike-heavy areas like China and India - so long as they can get the investment to develop the thing.

Drum mod

I'm not usually big into PC casemods, but this one looks pretty awesome.

Via Engadget

Alberto Gonzales: A Guide

By Mike Luckovich.

(Full disclosure: I love the AG's name. "Alberto Gonzales" is just so much fun to say.)

The Dude abides

I need these Big Lebowski action figures right now.

The internet as a subway

Following on from the periodic table of the internet, someone took Sen. Ted Stevens' (R-AL) "the internet is a series of tubes" analogy and decided to map out major websites onto a Tokyo Subway plan.

I'm not entirely sure who's responsible for this, but it's probably safe to say that they've got a lot of free time...

Via Boing Boing

Copyright as a Venn diagram

Patent and trademark attorney Erik J. Heels drew this diagram to help explain copyright to a friend's daughter, who was shadowing him for a school project.

In this drawing, I attempt to explain the wonderful world of copyright law. As an aside, I think that all intellectual property (i.e. patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret) lawyers like writing about copyright. Because we're all familiar with stuff that copyright protects - books, movies, CDs, DVDs, radio, TV, and the like. Even if, like me, they don't practice copyright law.

What most people don't appreciate is that there are three types of uses of copyrighted stuff. And not all of those rights are protected by (and hence can be legally controlled by) the copyright owner. Have you ever seen a copyright notice that says "It is illegal to make a copy of this copyrighted document." Well, that's not true, because it excludes fair use. I've often thought that the Copyright Act should be amended to say that all copyright rights are forfeit if an incorrect copyright notice is placed on a work. But that will never happen.

A complete explanation of the diagram, which is a simplification of the entire system, is along with the original drawing on Erik's site.

Periodic table of the internet

A full-size version (including links to all the sites on the table) is at Wellington Grey's Miscellanea.

Good Lord II: Gears of War

This Etch-A-Sketchist bloke is bloody mental. Following up to the outstanding Street Fighter sketch, he's taken on Gears of War.

Halt!

Both stolen from chorazin, although I'm not sure who did 'em originally.

Phallic bollards offend Oregon

A $20,000 installation of more than 50 concrete posts at an intersection in Keizer, OR has gotten a rise out of some residents, who are claiming the barriers look like male genitalia.

The City of Keizer is taking heat for installing a group of cement posts designed to protect pedestrians from cars, but which some say is a phallic symbol.

A total of 52 of the posts were installed at a busy intersection in Keizer and they are getting a lot of second glances.

A number of residents have complained to the city that the posts resemble male genitalia.

"I can't disagree with that," said City Manager Chris Eppley. "They certainly did not turn out the way we anticipated."

Some people are far too sensitive. Honestly, I wouldn't have looked at that and thought, "ha ha, cocks" if it hadn't been pointed out to me.

Good Lord

I could never draw anything on an etch-a-sketch; this is just taking the piss.