Little Toy Robot

Via Gwenda, ‘Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a “female” android called Repliee Q1.’ My god, look at those man-hands!

JERRY

The hands of a man. It’s like a creature out of Greek Mythology, I mean, she was like part woman, part horrible beast.

The absolute best baseball site on the Web now has its own domain: yard-work.org

Yard Work is a parody site with essays written in the style of your favorite baseball writers, announcers, and players. It is full of understated jokes like Joe Morgan ranting about Moneyball and insisting (just like he did in real life) that it was written by Billy Beane, and weird bits that are inexplicably laugh-out-loud funny like a series by part-time Dodgers first baseman Hee-Sop Choi imploring his manager, in perfect, eloquent English, to bat him against lefthanded pitching. Also not to be missed: “Pay Ricky,” which are occasional fake dispatches from baseball’s own Peter Pan, who refuses to let life in the Minors bring him down… or convert him to referring to himself in the first person.

I don’t know who’s really behind the site, but he/she/they are among the funniest people alive, in my opinion.

AOL users are now able to customize their home pages with RSS feeds, in a typical move in this industry where competitors simply copy each other until I want to vomit. Giving AOL users the ability to customize their homepages with RSS is like giving an Amish person a cellphone.

I always liked the Transformers more than Voltron, but like every good kid I watched the Voltron cartoon and played with the Voltron toys. Don’t quote me, but I think my Voltron action figures ended up at the bottom of a lake in Florida (result of the experiment: they didn’t float), which is a far more glamorous death than most of my toys, which usually ended up being eaten by one of my dogs.

Anyway, there will be a Voltron film, and I’m sure it will be crappy, but it’s got robots, so hey.

Is it me or does Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, look like the bastard half-son of Cthulhu?

Well, lookee here!

It seems that Family Guy isn’t the only animated Fox series that will receive a direct-to-DVD movie. Our friend Ken Plume over at IGN spoke with Billy West (voice of Fry and others) and received confirmation that the movie will happen, and there’s a possibility of a follow-up.

Fucking hell! [via]

The best thing that has happened on the new Family Guys is when Peter decides to console his friend Cleveland, whose wife is cheating on him, by singing the B-52s song “Rock Lobster.”

Full transcript on the Family Guy Wiki. Hey, there’s a Family Guy Wiki!