Want to fool the Japanese cigarette machine age-verification camera, but don’t have a magazine photo handy? Just use the portrait on the very same yen bill you’re about to spend.

Nintendo unveils Wii MotionPlus, a tiny peripheral for the remote that finally provides true 1:1 correspondence between where your arm is and the 3D in-game representation. They need to get this working with a Star Wars game NOW.

Thsrs: the thesaurus that only yields synonyms shorter than the word you enter.

Big Ideas (don’t get any): Radiohead’s “Nude” performed by a bunch of old shitty hardware. That scanner actually makes a pretty good bass.

Rolando, an upcoming iPhone game. Looks rather LocoRoco-inspired.

Man Arrested for Digg-Story-Digging Robot. I have so many questions about this video…

1. Why would you build a physical robot arm to scan the screen and peck the keyboard instead of just writing some software? It’s unnecessarily complex, expensive, and probably slow.

2. Why was he arrested? Last time I checked, digging stories is not illegal. (Although this probably goes against the TOS.)

3. What’s the point? From the looks of things, this robot just diggs whatever stories were on the front page. He’s not even exploiting it for personal gain!

4. What is wrong with the reporter? Is he a robot too?

Hilarious music video from Hard & Phirm. SCIENCE!!!

Chrono Trigger is being ported to DS?!? Never has such a simple teaser site had me so excited.

BioWare’s thinking about something for the iPhone? Now that sounds like an app to look forward to!

Only in Japan: a KFC bag insert showing where the bones are located in your chicken.

Typical Infographic.

First the iPhone SDK is Intel-only, and now Spore is too? Damn, I really need to start saving for a new computer.

Haha! So the original iPhone is still cheaper if you look at the cost over the entire (required) 2-year contract. That’s nice to know, but $1800 is still a lot of damn money.

Too bad I never visited the “Morning Wood” restaurant when I was in Japan. I totally missed out on a eating a frog’s heart while it’s still beating.

Have I posted Kate Beaton’s history comics before? Well, just in case, they are quite hilarious even though I often don’t understand what’s going on.

Google just added Street View for most of Nebraska. Or at least, I just noticed it.

Just when you thought Safari’s Javascript engine was as fast as an implementation could get, they replace it with one that’s 1.6 times faster and has room to grow.

Is Apple renaming .Mac to Mobile Me?

Address Book syncs with Gmail contacts in 10.5.3. Nice!

Did the world really need a Super Mario RPG remix compilation? Why yes, I think it did!