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Oolong is no ordinary rabbit.

“Oolong is so calm and patient — he never gets angry when I take pictures of
him. When I put various objects on his head, he stays still for a minute. This is just a result of an intimate relationship between me and Oolong. The main theme of my site is not to show these ‘headperformance’ links, and it’s not my hope to propagandize nothing but the strangeness of his headperformance over the world. Oolong’s headperformance– many foreigners seem to feel it ‘crazy’, but Japanese people feel it just cute and funny.

It is the difference of international feeling.”

“Like many writers and their work, Tim McCanlies admits a great deal of the characters who appear in Secondhand Lions emerged from his own past. “As a kid I spent a lot of summers with my grandfather, who was a crusty character much like the uncles in the movie,” he reflects. “But while my grandfather was tough, there was a real tender side that was buried under so many layers. He loomed large to me as a kid. And growing up with a good, strong male figure in their lives is what could make the difference in how a child grows up. I tried to figure out what it is that men teach boys and deal with that a little bit in the film.”

Secondhand Lions follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy named Walter (Haley Joel Osment), whose mother, Mae (Kyra Sedgwick), dumps him off, in the midst of a young life marked by broken promises, to spend the summer with his cranky, eccentric great uncles.”
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“Intelligent software that brings rough sketches to life in a virtual world is promising to revolutionise the way children learn and to help engineers visualise their designs.

In designing the software, developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have had to tackle several tough tasks. First the software must recognise crude hand-drawn shapes in the way the user intended for example, by spotting that four wiggly lines represent a square with straight sides.

Then it has to recognise the context of the objects being sketched, in the same way that we interpret two circles under a box on a slope as some kind of vehicle on wheels. Finally, the package has to animate the sketch so that objects move as they would do in the real world.”
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Ahoy!

Shiver me timbers, matey. Today be Talk like a Pirate Day so gather ye mateys and mate(ettes) and scrub the deck you swabbie.

Avast — Journey to your local Starbucks and pillage and plunder the place. Sabbotage the cappuccino machine, mix up the sugar dishes and show these bilge rats whose boss. Grab yer booty and make like a parrot. Yarggh!

If ye be a gameplayer, take a stab at Battlefield: Pirates or Popcap Games’ Seven Seas. Or, why don’t ya see what kind’er pirate ye be… here, matey.

Aye, study the text and come back a sea dog or you could always walk the plank.