Stuff that's too good for the shoutbox but not enough for its own thread

[AnonymousIdiotSavant]

The first 5 mins are fairly scientific, but the last 5 remind you how awesome being a woman in the 1940s-50s must've been, living as a baby making factory and mild mannered home maker.

"Keep smiling on the outside"

Walt Disney The Story Of Menstruation - YouTube

[AnonymousIdiotSavant]

Future Neko comes back as a child and pledges herself to the Dark Side?

Sariah Gallego Joins the Dark Side (Star Wars) - YouTube

[AnonymousIdiotSavant]

So much for arranged marriages working out better...

Husband is a Snake --- Desi caught cheating. - YouTube

[Zichao]

Future Neko comes back as a child and pledges herself to the Dark Side?

Sariah Gallego Joins the Dark Side (Star Wars) - YouTube

Those lightsabre guys at the front are cool too...

[contracycle]

A Car Seat That Authenticates the Driver With Butt Recognition
By Dan Nosowitz
Posted 12.23.2011 at 12:58 pm


Biometric security is often focused on the more boring anatomical parts, like the pads of the fingers (ehhh) or the eyes (who cares). So little attention has been paid to the security possibilities of the butt. Well, not anymore: researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo have come up with a car seat that measures the precise contours and pressures left by your posterior.

Apparently measuring buttprints, or rear-pressure (none of the terms I just used, or will use, have been approved or sanctioned by the researchers) is a pretty decent way to identify people. The seat is comprised of a system of 360 separate sensors, which measure pressure. Those sensors communicate with a laptop to put together a precise map of the seated person. The researchers say the seat can correctly identify people with 98% accuracy--not bad at all.

The team is hoping to work with Japanese car manufacturers to implement the system as an added security measure, possibly in as few as two or three years.

A Car Seat That Authenticates the Driver With Butt Recognition | Popular Science

[Zichao]

What happens if the driver goes on a diet?

[contracycle]

Indeed. Although Iit did occur to me to think the change would be gradual, and a smart enough system would adapt and update itself. Frex, if it challenged the owner, you could enter a password, and then it would record the change, and learn a pattern.

[Zichao]

网瘾战争 - War of Internet Addiction - Party 1 of 7 (World of Warcraft) - YouTube

Finally got round to watching War of Internet Addiction - it's every bit as good as they say, but the translation isn't perfect. It assumes that you know what all of the nerdy WoW references mean (which I don't), but not any of the other pop culture references*. Also, with a lot of stuff it's just like he couldn't be bothered to translate it or something**. Some stuff gets explained in the translators notes, but a guess maybe 50% of the jokes are totally lost. What’s amazing, though, is that it’s still funny, clever and moving. Unlike everything ever produced by CCTV.

Also, you really need to know the ins and outs of the Blizzard vs. The9 vs. Netease saga and the Yang Yongxin affair. I didn't really bother following this, so I had to stop halfway through and read up on the details.

Anyway, even if you don’t watch the rest, you should watch part 6 of 7 ( 网瘾战争 - War of Internet Addiction - Party 6 of 7 (World of Warcraft) - YouTube), which is the bit that made everyone cry.

*In jail Kan complains that he's about to be duomaomao-ed. When he's being ravished by the ninja girl he yells "yamete". WoW is repeatedly described as a tea table (ie. covered with cups) etc. etc. I missed loads. Okay, some are hard to translate, but it's not impossible. A large proportion of Anglophone nerds would totally get the yamete thing, for a start.
** When Ding Lei gets stopped by the cops at the beginning, they actually say "We have conclusive proof that you were running an illegal taxi service, and we got it in a totally non illegal way!"

[contracycle]

Io9's review "The year in NSFW"

http://io9.com/5872187/the-year-in-n...eview-with-io9

Edit: link corrected

[AnonymousIdiotSavant]

Live action Gantz? Thats gotta be interesting..