This is wrong for just so many reasons…

Wild monkeys in India have grown so out of control that the state government is planning to build a school for rogue monkeys… boingboing.net

A new show of the art of Basil Wolverton is hanging in New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery (515 West 24th Street, Chelsea; (212) 206-9300) until Aug 14. The New York Times has a nice potted history (with slideshow) of MAD Magazine’s grossest and funniest illustrator to accompany the show …boingboing.net

The Bowlingual Voice, produced by Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy, is a talking gadget which analyses the acoustics of a dog’s bark and translates the findings into human words…telegraph.co.uk

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Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines… wired.com

Designer Marlies Romberg rebels against the world of plastic and aluminum with her final project at the Utrecht School of the Arts. Dear Diary 1.0 is a wooden table with the keyboard laser cut into it, a computer tucked neatly underneath, and a flat panel built into a wooden structure. The whole thing is just downright clever…dvice.com

Dear diary 1.0 is thus both the literal and the figurative manifestation of the worlds colliding. A physical reminder that increasingly, the real and the digital are becoming indistinguishable.

Nikola Tesla symbolizes a unifying force and inspiration for all nations in the name of peace and science. He was a true visionary far ahead of his contemporaries in the field of scientific development. New York State and many other states in the USA proclaimed July 10, Tesla’s birthday- Nikola Tesla Day…teslasociety.com Read the rest of this entry »

To ensure employees at Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan are putting their best lip forward, the company has implemented a “smile check” policy, in which workers will be required to smile into a camera and have their mug subjected to software analysis of their happiness… geekologie.com

The Zero S is a high performance supermoto motorcycle that is revolutionary because it is fully electric. Imagine instant torque and power from a standstill. Imagine smooth acceleration as you race out of turns. Then, imagine never needing to stop at the gas station… zeromotorcycles.com

Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi‘s wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution…randomhouse.com

A graphic novel that prove this genre is about more than colorful spandex-ed superheroes. Timely and pertinent.