Crazy ball machine

Somebody had too much time on their hands.


Crazy ball machine

I wonder how much time was spent to figure it all out and make this! The cool thing is: it is tileable. Click on the link to see the crazy ball machine in full screen glory .

By xorbit, last changed on June 17, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //         

Ode to a spell checker

Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plainly marques for my revue,
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a whirred
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong oar write,
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as the missed ache is maid,
It nose before two long,
And aye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am sure your pleased to no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.

You can find the story behind this poem and the original at the spell checker poem .

By xorbit, last changed on May 19, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //         

Simon's Cat

Some YouTube gems. Just awesome how the artist managed to reproduce the behavior and movements of a cat in such a recognizable way! I am sure every cat owner will crack up watching these.

Simon's Cat in 'Cat Man Do'

Simon's Cat in 'Let Me In!'

There are more of them on the Simon's Cat channel on YouTube !

By xorbit, last changed on March 12, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //         

Pimped car

What if you want to pimp your car, but you don't have enough money to do it? No problem! All you need is some cardboard, tin foil, tape and enough imagination!


Cardboard pimped car

By xorbit, last changed on March 10, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //         

Lego aircraft carrier

No, this is not a scene from the Persian Gulf. This aircraft carrier is a work of art by Harry S. Truman that is built entirely from Legos! This beast weighs 350 lbs (about 160 kg) and took about 200,000 bricks to build. The detail of this model is absolutely astonishing!


Lego aircraft carrier


Lego aircraft carrier detail

Click this link for more pictures of the Lego aircraft carrier .

By xorbit, last changed on January 22, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //         

English - Chinese - English

The results of translations from Chinese to English are quite often hilarious, and so are translations performed by automatic translation tools. So why not combine the two for some fun?

Reportedly, when the first bi-directional English-Chinese translation computer was finally completed, the computer scientists and electrical engineers fed the phrase "Out of sight; Out of mind" into the machine, then fed the output Chinese translation back in. The response was "Invisible idiot".

Translation technology has likely improved since then, and has thus unfortunately become less funny. To test this, I ran a bunch of English sentences through Yahoo's Babelfish English-Chinese translator, and then ran the resulting Chinese back through the Chinese-English translator. Here are some funny results that came up:

Out of sight, out of mind
Outside line of sight, outside brains

I had a gut feeling that something was up.
I have an intestines feeling which something rises.

The sunset took my breath away.
The sunset makes me be dumbfounded.

To be or not to be, that is the question.
The survival destroys, that is a question.

When the smoke cleared, they were gone.
When the smoke eliminated, they go.

They are in dire need of organ donors.
They are the urgently needed organ subscribers.

It was a heart wrenching sight.
It is the heart wailsome sight.

All the while, the president had been lining his pockets.
President has been situated his pocket.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
Becomes richly richer, becomes poorly poorer.

Reluctantly, she opened the fridge.
She has turned on the refrigerator reluctantly.

The visitors did not behave well at all.
The visitor simply does not have well to display.

She was very pretty, and did not look her age at all.
She is very pretty and simply has not looked at her age.

He had never done this before, but now he was finally going to realize his life-long dream.
He has not made before the surface, but he plans the experience life-long dream now finally he.

He vowed to undo the damage he had caused.
He pledged that cancels other party has become damage.

Obesity is an increasing problem among teenagers and young adults.
The obesity is in the youth and a young adult's growth question.

Too little too late.
Too few queen mothers.

He did not like it when other people would put words in his mouth.
When other people in his mouth, will invest the word he not to like.

In many cities, parking space has increasingly become an issue.
In many cities, the parking spot has become the question more and more.

Suddenly the lights went out.
The light closed suddenly.

Our research of the living cell has barely scratched the surface.
Our survival cell's research has not grasped the surface nearly.

By xorbit, last changed on January 22, 2009 // E-mail to a friend //