Author Archives: Niall Murphy

The life of the mutant Bubble-Eye Goldfish is a lonely and nervous one. Developed in Japan (where else?), its fluid filled eye-sacs are so fragile that tanks have to be kept free of pointy objects and rigid aquatic plants.

You there. Stop laughing.

20 Funny Pictures of Bubble Eye Goldfish (Buzzfeed)

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DJ BC‘s mashup of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Police’s Roxanne.

Download this, and four other nifty yuletide mashups here.

BoingBoing

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JpNravrwZc&feature=player_embedded#!

BBC Radio 4 has been caught up in an unlikely tangle after two of its senior broadcasters accidentally said the C-word live on air. The bizarre series of events started at 8am Monday morning when news anchor James Naughtie got his words in a tangle when referring to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Later on, Andrew Marr reported the gaffe on Radio 4′s Start the Week programme.

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Radio Four-ettes: Andrew Marr and James Naughtie say C-word live on air (Small World News)

Via Arbroath


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An MIT Media Lab team has developed a series of wallets that react physically when you spend electronically:

The wallets communicate with your bank via a bluetooth connection to your smartphone and come in three variants. The “Mother Bear” has a hinge that gets harder to open as your balance dwindles. The “Bumblebee” vibrates every time a transaction gets processed, with one vibration for debits, another for credits. And the “Peacock” swells and shrinks along with your account balance.

“An unusually high balance results in a wallet large enough to be visible to potential mates,” write the researchers.

Yesterday, we scoffed.

Today, we need these.

Smart wallet gets harder to open as you spend more (Consumerist)

In a deft combination of PR and unapologetic squee-baiting, the Mozilla Foundation has adopted two female Red Panda cubs born at Knoxville Zoo last June. For the next two months, all slaves to cuteness are invited to visit with the Firefoxes via a 24-hour live stream.

Go on. You might catch them frolicking.

The Mozilla Blog

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An incredible timelapse video of the Aurora Borealis over Tromsø, Norway by Tor Even Mathisen. The individual frames can be seen on his Flick photostream.

Previously: The Most Spectacular Light Show On Earth

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