This is a little Asian girl dressed as Voltron in what may or may yes be a mall’s food court. And as much as I despise robots (particularly ones that join together to form larger, even more menacing robots), I’ll admit you really can’t help but love her. Ha, I said you. I still hate her. voltron girl [angryasianman] Thanks to Ryan and Mustang Sanford, who know I don’t really hate the little girl. It’s her parents.

This is a giant Alien queen statue made out of scrap metal . She’s scary as hell and will give you the worst kind of STD if you try making love to her: penis tetanus . NO LOCKBALLS FOR ME THANK YOU VERY MUCH! The recycled sculpture is an assembly of over 4000 individual parts, who prior to being consolidated into this sculpture where constituent elements of automobiles, boats, televisions and basically anything that had steel worth recycling and weighing in at 550kg (1,210 lbs) and standing tall at 2.4m (7′10″) this alien queen will definitely make her presence felt anywhere she goes. With all this intricate detailing and ingenuity put into this design it’s no surprise that the sculpture sells for €4500 (~$6,100), which is pretty reasonable for a work of art of this calibour. You know what — maybe I was being too harsh. I think I’ll take the scrap queen out for a date after all. STRAIGHT TO THE RECYCLING CENTER! You gonna make me rich, queeny! Hit the jump for several more of the no thank you.

NOTE : Video AFTER THE JUMP is NSFW due to thong. I told you it was a special bonus — AND I DON’T LIE! This is a video of Robin Williams on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ talking about getting “OWNED” by 10 year-olds playing Call of Duty and naming his daughter after Princess Zelda . Respect (I loved you in Mrs. Doubtfire!). And, since it’s Friday (and I feel kinda bad about the Lara Croft thing), I included a video of a girl in a thong crushing a watermelon between her thighs that I found on the same site after watching the Robin Williams video. The sound alone was enough to give me the chills. Just like fingernails on a chalkboard, except a woman crushing a melon with her hooha. Hit it for the watermelon crushing fright-fest.

Granted we’ve seen LEGO Mindstorm sets people have built to solve Rubik’s Cubes in the past, but never anything that moves with the speed and dexterity as CubeStorm CubeStorm Cubestorm . Whoa, nice echo effect. Kidding, I’m hiding in the closet (my mom’s trying to drag me to a doctor’s appointment). The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web camera to scan the faces of the cube, The solve engine (algorithm) running on the computer is provided by the incredible “Cube Explorer “software which also provides the colour recognition required to determine the exact location of each coloured square. Thanks to Herbert Kociemba for making his work available to anyone wishing to use it! Respect! “Cube Explorer” has the ability to produce very fast solutions to a successfully scanned cube, usually around 20 face turns! Doesn’t sound a lot , but it is believed that around 20 turns are enough to solve ANY 3×3x3 cube combination. I’m still working on “CubeStormer” I would like to see it reach sub-10 and feel it’s close to that. but reliability begins to suffer when you start to push things just that bit too far….. You know what else begins to suffer when you start to push robotics too far? Humanity. Just sayin’, you ever seen that movie Terminator ? I haven’t — I’ve got enough nightmare fodder! Youtube Thanks to Osku, Logisticz, Gir, Ringo, Raúl, meeotch, Frank, james, Bolleke, PrestickNinja, raficus and Clint, who would have disassembled that sucker and built a sweet-ass LEGO castle.

Borg cupcakes : that’s what these are. Now I don’t know too much about the Borgs except they’ve always scared the everliving crap out of me (literally, ask the popcorn sweeper in theater 11 after the 4:20 showing of First Contact back in ‘96), but it looks like two of them have little metal peeners for eyes . So that’s something. SOMETHING TO LICK OFF THE TOP BEFORE EATING THE REST OF THE CAKE, AMIRITE?! No, no I am not (I totally am though and you know it). Resistance is Delicious [wilwheaton] Thanks to emerica, who prefers platecakes.

Apparently a school in Pennsylvania issued students laptops and then used them to spy on the children while they were used at home, hoping to score some insight into the child’s extracurricular lives lewd webcam shows. According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families. The issue came to light when the Robbins’s child was disciplined for “improper behavior in his home” and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines. Yeah because that’s not suspect as all get-out. *cough* Pederasts *cough* . Say, you think my laptop has something like that on it? Because if it did, oh man, the things you would see . Namely, me writing Geekologie. In the buff. Which, fun fact: can’t be unseen. And you wouldn’t want it to be . Yes, yes you most certainly would. School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home [boingboing] Thanks to Kamaren, who uses his webcam to spy on himself at night because he sleepwalks and can’t figure out why his socks are always wet in the morning. You’re peeing in your dresser, Kamaren.

The latest rage in Taiwanese gang weaponry ? Shotgun revolvers. F*** all that noise ! Seriously, I imagine they’re pretty loud. Home made handgun revolvers using standard 12 gauge shotgun shells are becoming increasingly popular with Taiwanese gang members, and this one was confiscated from a 19 year old gang gun runner. While it’s not the first shotgun shell revolver, Taurus makes one called the Judge, this is the only one I’ve encountered that fires a regular 12 gauge round. The going street price for one of these suckers in Taiwan is around $7000-9000, just in case you’re tempted. $7-9K?! Are you out of your gotdamn mind? I know a guy that’ll stab you with the sharpened leg of a barstool for a carton of Pall Malls and a good reference. I’m serious, call me. Hit the jump for one more shot(!)

Anybody else just flash back to Half Life ? Me neither, it was a Dead concert. Anyway, this is a giant f***ing Japanese Spider Crab. It was recently caught off the coast of — you’ll never guess — Japan , and will be on display in England. I bet my ex-wife has bigger ones. With its enormous legs and lethal claws, this monster of the deep is already the biggest crab ever seen in Britain. But astonishingly, the arthropod - which measures a staggering 10ft from claw to claw - is still growing, and could live until it is 100. Nicknamed ‘Crabzilla’ after the fictional giant monster, the Japanese Spider Crab has a body the size of a basketball and its legs can straddle a car. They will eventually measure a massive 15ft [across]. Crabzilla is currently in quarantine, but will be on display at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham, England soon. Ultimately, he will be moved to the Sea Life Center in Blankenberge, Belgium, where he will be stolen and eaten by the Geekologie Writer. I am gonna crack those legs open OVER MY KNEE. ‘Crabzilla’: The biggest crab ever seen in Britain… and it’s still growing [dailymail] Thanks to jack, who had one of these crawl out the bottom of his boxers and try to eat his socks.

A pair of Norwegian jackasses in full SCUBA regalia sat in lawn chairs waiting for the Google Street View van to go by and gave chase when it did. This is one of the resulting images, but you can go up and down the street to see them lying sitting in wait as well as a couple more of the hot pursuit . Now, how the hell does everybody know when the Google Street View van is going by? Because I didn’t when they did my neighborhood. Sure they still caught me floundering conducting hydrodynamic experiments in a kiddy pool by the garage, but I’m a scientist and that’s everyday shit for me. Google Maps via Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car [boingboing] Thanks to Uncle_FUJ, Peekaboo!, Stephen, Patrick, Tracy and Model Airplane Glue, who only chase dreams. Besides Model Airplane Glue, he chases my brain.

Verizon , in an act of big-brotherdom , has decided to prevent wireless access to 4chan, the sparkling gem of the internet . I’ve got the feeling this isn’t going to end well . Per 4chan Status: Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic to/from boards.4chan.org, only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional. After an hour and a half on the phone, we’ve received confirmation from Verizon’s Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are “explicitly blocked.” If you’ve been affected by the block, please call Verizon NRB at (866) 298-5373 to file a complaint. Wow. Enjoy all the goatse pics, Verizon. 4 Chan Status Thanks to Thomas, steven, Chris, 40hands and like twenty Anons and Anonymouses, who all make the world (wide web) go round.