This is pretty neat. The magnetic field caused by the acceleration and braking of some commuter trains in Japan are apparently strong enough to go through the car and cause paperclips on the floor to stand on their ends. [via]
IMAGI stops production on Astro Boy
January 26, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
I was really looking foward to the Astroy Boy movie even if it was being made by IMAGI, the same studio that did the incredibly bad Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in CGI. But now it looks like I won’t be able to see the film any time soon because Cartoon Brew is reporting that IMAGI has officially stopped work on Astro Boy in order to refocus efforts on Gatchaman and Tusker (2 other films they have in production). If the studio doesn’t get more funding somehow, it looks like we won’t be seeing Astro Boy on the big screen (at least not from IMAGI…which could be a good thing).
The end of the road for new year’s glasses
January 2, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
Photo: COURTNEY BLETHEN / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Above are Richard Sclafani and Peter Cicero, co-founders of the hugely popular “Glow-Year Glasses” that you see everywhere during new years. The glasses use the 9 and 0 of the new year as make-shift eyeglass openings, and this past new year — 2009 — marked the end of an era for the two men. You see, 2009 is actually the last year that these glasses can be made to use the new year’s numerical digits.
When 2010 rolls around next year, it’s unlikely that you’ll see these glasses around because the 1 in 2010 just won’t be suitable for seeing through.
Anyway, it’s interesting to read how these two men went about their business of creating these glasses. It started as a doodle and in the past 19 years, they’ve sold over a million of these things (the actual number of glasses sold in the likeness of these Glow-Year Glasses is probably much higher because of the numerous knockoffs).
Anyway, for years I can remember these things selling like mad at the wholesale store that my family owns and it’ll be funny to see what takes its place next new year’s. I guess there’s always still hats and horns and glow lights.
DHL U.S.-domestic services to end in January
November 10, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
So long! DHL is suspending U.S.-domestic shipping beginning January 30, 2009. But if you want to ship internationally from the U.S. using DHL, you still can.
DHL is hoping that this move will reduce operating costs for their U.S. Express business 80% (a total savings of about $4.4 billion). Holy crap. What will it do with those savings???
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