The Long Now Foundation, a group formed as a response to the current culture’s obsession with the ephemeral, has designed a what they call The Clock of the Long Now. This timepiece, which looks like something out of an old science fiction movie, keeps ticks along not to seconds or minutes or hours, but to the passing years and is meant to be functional for the next 10,000 years. Amazingly ambitious, considering technology these days is dismissed as obsolete within six months.

The initial Clock of the Long Now prototype.

This large list of technological considerations shows that designing something mechanical that will continue to function through such a unheard of range of time is, obviously , a monumental task.

A shame we’ll all be dead and have no way of knowing if any of these projects worked.

Why toss out your old video game systems when you can turn them into sweet functional things like these guys have.

NES Guitar

Sega Genesis Guitar

The aptly named NES Paul has a site with more shots from the process of turning his old NES into a musical instrument.

For those of you wondering if these things actually play, here’s a video of the MegaDriver playing his creation.

Some of you might remember the Walking with Dinosaurs specials that aired here in the states on the Discovery Channel. Well, the brains behind the series over at the BBC have produced a live stage show called, appropriately, Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience. Now, at first you might think that this would be some lame show the likes of which you could see at your local science museum, but I’m sure the following videos might convince you otherwise.

I would love to see this. Alas, the show is currently touring in freaking Australia. Yes, that place over there on the other side of the planet from me with all the crocodiles and kangaroos. Not only do they have the best accents, but now they also have massive animatronic dinosaurs. Freaking Australians have all the luck…

I may not have access to a industrial robotic arm, but this amazing Wiimote hack made me go out and get a Bluetooth adapter for my PC so I could start playing around with GlovePIE too.

Here is a video of the WiiBot in action. Is that not the coolest thing? I want two of these things so I can battle with my friends. I wonder if they’d fit in my livingroom.

I am currently immersed in a Firefoxful of Wii hacking tabs and will post again when I get some cool stuff working.

We all knew it was coming and, thankfully we didn’t have to wait until LucasArts came out with something to play with our Wiimotes as a lightsaber.

I present, WiiSaber. The first of what I hope is many great mods and apps for PC/Mac/Linux that somehow involve lightsabers. This one is from the same guy who was responsible for this.

A shame it’s only for Mac right now. I really wanna try this. Someone get to work on the Windows port.

So apparently mixing a certain combination of cornstarch and water allows you to create a non-Newtonian fluid. That’s fine and all, but when you turn said non-Newtonian fluid into a fun variety show activity, you get this:

That looks like way too much fun. I’m off to the store to pick up the largest kiddie pool I can find. Where the heck would I find large amounts of cornstarch at this hour of the night?

Edit: Here are some more videos of non-Newtonian videos doing wacky things.

Yes, I know the video is in Spanish, but who cares, they’re freaking walking on water!

This is more than a bit late, but since I dressed up as Shaun of the Dead this Halloween, I had to post it. Some guy named CoderKev made this amazingly cool Shaun of the Dead Lego Minifig Costume.

(Image © 2006 CoderKev)

And to think I was all proud of the makeshift cricket bat that I made at the last minute out of a boat oar for my costume.