mambocab

i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter

- you already know the words and are putting them in there with yer miiiiind, or - the process of converting to MIDI involves decomposing the sound into its component frequencies with a Fourier transform, so, e.g., the "e" sound is played back on shitty MIDI piano with higher-frequency components than the "uh" sound is.

Osiris and Riff Ratt 

Osiris is a 3-year-old Dutch Shepherd mix. Riff Ratt is a 3-month-old fancy rat. They live in Chicago and they’re BFFs.

2030: The ice we skate is getting pretty thin

2100: The water’s getting warm, so we might as well swim

HEBOCON

Japanese robotics fighting contest where the makers have no technical skills and the robots have to be as crappy as possible - video embedded below:

Hebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling tournament for those who don’t have the technical skills to actually make robots. 31 pseudo-robots that don’t even move properly came together to go head to head. The robots in this tournament are nothing like what their builders initially imagined them to be, robots are forgotten on the train, the strategies made with careful planning only result in failure, and the entrants who enter the ring brag about their robot’s secret moves that don’t really exist. This is the heated battle between crappy, but lovable robots.