Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

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  • Check it out, the Wes Anderson American Express commercial. It's a crazy, weird, funny, vaguely confusing work of genius, just like his movies! (Via)

  • You know how we enjoy the DIY projects here at Whiz of the Web, so we couldn't very well not mention the first ever Maker Faire, a tech DIY extravaganza that was held in San Mateo this weekend by MAKE and the MythBusters, amongst others. Wired has a great gallery of photos from the event which includes shots of plenty of custom-built robots (even one for the steam punk fans), as well as one of our favorite items, a life-size, trampoline version of Simon.

  • Somebody in Rhode Island has created what has to be the largest game of Tetris ever, which you play on the side of a building. The thing is composed of "eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights" and took over five months of planning. There's a picture above, and a video if you follow the link. (Via)

  • Dude, check out these sweet Space Invaders sneakers. They're not even that expensive! We're seriously thinking about snagging a pair. We'd be the envy of all the other guys at the arcade.

  • An excellent precedent has been set, fellow web-surfers. An administrative judge in New York has ruled that surfing the web when you should be working "is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone" at your desk, and that therefore the only appropriate punishment is a simple reprimand. Woo hoo! We'll take that to mean we can keep blogging...

  • In about three years, there could be a new fast-acting (about 15 minutes), long-lasting drug on the market for increasing the libido (or, as the Observer describes it, "a drug that makes you not only able but eager and willing"). It's more effective than Viagra, usable by both sexes, deliverable via a nasal inhaler, and unaffected by food or alcohol consumption. Right now it's known as PT-141, and it sounds pretty amazing - to the point of being almost scary. An adviser on trials for the drug says, "It's not merely allowing a sexual response to take place more easily. It may be having an effect, literally, on how we think and feel." Woah. Btw, another great thing about this article is its description of rat mating rituals:
    "The female rat will approach the male head-to-head. She will wiggle her ears, she will wiggle her whiskers, she will nibble at him, and finally she'll turn and run away." If the male chooses not to pursue her, she may return and, as one leading rat sexologist puts it, "kick him in the face." This tends to do the trick.
    (Via)

    • Image Credit: TechEBlog

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    By Jim Genzano in on April 26, 2006 12:00 PM 0 Comments 0 Likes Likes

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