Shout-Outs: January 2004 Archives

They get a little YMCA in near the end, too.

The robots involved are called QRIOs. pronounced "Curio." Think the next Aibo, but bipedal. And a few thousand dollars more expensive. The name's very appropriate.

There are more videos here, if you scroll down and click the text links below the pictures and the pink bar. The official site's here, and it's in English and has some much clearer film clips. Make sure to note that this thing can actually get back up when pushed over, and braces itself for the fall... although anyone who would push it over in the first place is sort of a dick, if you ask me.

The commerical currently airing in Japan for this thing is here.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't impressed. Hell, it can throw a baseball and everything. But I'll be even more impressed the day they make a QRIO that can catch one.

Yup. Dig the nav bar.

See those people? I like 'em. Yes I do. You should, too. Go visit.

I'll add other junk later, like links to comics and MT Blacklist and whatnot. But for now, spread the love. Most of 'em have had their shots, I promise.

Most.

So good I'm willing to ruin my layout for the next ten days to show you.

When you clicked it, it led to a catalog page on the Office Depot website featuring yellow pencils.

Luv.

WEHT.Net is one of those sites you just kinda knew had to exist somewhere, but never bothered to look for until Google dumped it in your lap one day.

WEHT... short for "Whatever happened to...?" advertises itself as a clearinghouse of up-to-date information on the once-famous and infamous. You be the judge.

The best part about the site is probably the way they list their entires. "That Chick who shot Andy Warhol" for Valerie Solanas (dead of emphysema and pneumonia in '88), "He Likes it! Hey, Mikey!" for the Life cereal commercial kid (now a radio advertising executive in NYC), and character names instead of real names for various actors... cuz hell, we don't remember 'em any other way.

They even have an category for "The Other Guys" (The Other Guy in The Eurythmics, The Other Guy in Wham!, The Bass Player in Nirvana, etc.) , which couldn't be more appropriate.

Give 'em a look, and decide for yourself who got the worst smackdown from the inexorable march of time. My vote, swayed by merciless irony, is with Gene Gene the Dancing Machine from The Gong Show.

He, uh, lost both legs to diabetes in 2001.

Your life would be a lot happier if it were just a little more... random.

Click. Porn. Click. Kitten. Click. Car crash. Click. Man with a penis full of bees. Click. Cosplayers. Click. Turducken. Click...