the adventures of teapot the cat

Endless Vacation Phenomenon

Yogurting is a fairly new MMORPG from Korea, but not available in English yet. Parallel in cute-factor to Ragnarok, if I could read Korean, I’d probably be hooked already. The well-produced trailer (which is more of a music video for the theme song “Always”) really caught my interest with the nice graphics & cohesion, and the screenshots kept me wishing I knew Korean. The game is set in a Korean high school world, and has plenty of fantastical fighting to get your sword into. But if you feel more like playing dress-up and socializing with other anime fans, you can find that and more on Yogurting. I’m not clear about the name, so don’t ask! All i wanna know is, when will an English version coming out?

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iPod ad spoof

apple ad spoof [repost via Spyhunter ]

While on my way to and from work everyday I am constantly astonished by the sheer number of white iPod headphone cords I spot. Of course I’m one of those people too. It sure does make me feel like just another lemming consumer… [ Though 1) I do think that iPods are great devices and 2) I probably would have bought another brand, but got an iPod as a gift. ]

Seeing so many of the white cords inevitably makes me think about my daily struggles with my messy tangle of headphone wires. The ear buds always work their way into a knot, and are always such a hassle to extract. Plus I have the Apple iPod remote which adds an additional length of wirey confusion. Somewhere in the space between these two separate issues I came up with the morbid thought that one day an iPod lemming will end up choking on a tangled cord. Or, even more morosely, committing suicide using the signature cords to hang themselves (Please don’t try this at home. This parody was performed by a trained stunt professional) So that is how the iDie iPod ad parody came to being. I guess it’s pretty sick and weird, but I couldn’t help myself. I seriously need some Shure earbuds and a shrink.

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Those Shocking Chinese

Back in July, USA Today did an article on how bad the ‘internet addiction‘ problem is with kids in China. While any children in the good ole US of A suffering from sleepless nights in a dimly lit chat room would simply get a scolding, those unhappy Chinese youths have the pleasure of being sent to an addiction clinic where they will shock the hell out of them to exorcise their daemons. Sounds quite … medieval! So while the BuzzTrainer was simply for fun - this is serious. They need to install BuzzTrainers in the Internet cafes on seedy street corners where the dealers peddle this lethal digital smack to our Chinese brethren.

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the famous luminous toilet seat

This time I’m not makin shit up. Honest!

The transparent toilet seat GALACTIKA is equipped with tiny ultra bright Chip-LED in 5 cols.: pole-white, sundance-yellow, scarlet-red, amparo-blue and emerald-green. The energy is supplied by 4 pcs. AA 1,5V batteries, that you find in an inconspicuous batterycase taped with a velcro at the backside of the closet or at the wall under the cistern. The real clou of the luminous toilet seat is the very tricky elektronic processor. When opening the cover the LED light will be dimmed on slowlyand kindle their full power after 5 seconds. When closing the cover the LED light will be dimmed off gently. If you leave the cover open the integrated processor interrupts the powersupply after half an hour. One battery filling is good enough for one month run (depending on frequency (c:).

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