Just released in Japan, the ‘Oppopet’ (‘oppo pet’) wireless computer mouse, produced by elecom in collaboration with Tokyo-based designer Oki Sato – has a USB receiver shaped like an animal tail, making the device appear like a small pet.

Yes. The word you’re looking for is ‘buttplug’.

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Comic Con, currently in full swing at the San Diego Convention Centre, is nothing if not predictable in its annual showcase of geekery.

Karl’s been to several of these. He reckons you could get a full house in about a minute and a half.

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Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund (with Brendan Behan outside The Shelbourne Hotel Mansion House in Dublin in 1952) has died aged 88.

He liked a flutter:

He was a heavy gambler until late on when, he found that he had become so rich there was no thrill left in it any more.

One day, when he was well into his 70s, he lost nearly a million pounds on a series of horse races while we were having lunch.

Lucian Freud: He Was Wise In His Way (Martin Gayford, Telegraph)

(Bill Brandt)

 


Today’s Google Doodle recipient. He left us hanging.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976), whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family of celebrated, though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially “drew” three-dimensional figures in space.

The Calder Foundation

David Norris and his supporters from the oireachtas this afternoon in Buswell’s.

Spelling out the letters U, R, Y and D in semaphore. What could it mean?

Crown To Join Presidential Hopeful As Norris Showcases Oireachtas Support (Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
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