Seiko-Epson has developed a teeny robot called Monsieur II-P which has wheels and can travel at 150mm/sec. It also has integrated Bluetooth. It looks like it could offer a lot of playground and executive desk fun, although the company says that it has no schedule to produce them commercially as yet. [via mobilemag]

The David Blane Style Street Magic site, purports to reveal a lot of the secrets behind his magic tricks. I’m more fascinated by TheTrickery.com, which offers a really cool selection of magic props with which to amaze and befool your friends, neighbours and work colleagues. As long as you’re dextrous enough of course. Also check out the great videos section.

Oooh look ma, Google without any of the flim flam. Perfect for those who want their results links plain and unadorned.

The Love Calculator calculates the probability of a successful relationship between two people based on their name. There is also a downloadable standalone program available. Er…don’t take it too seriously will you?

So Microsoft announces a $2.79 billion profit for the last quarter. Last quarter? Whew! That’s $24,000 a second (I just made that up, but it sounds good don’t it?). Anyway just to prove that the Redmond Rockets are a really nice bunch of – rich – guys, they’re going to be giving away a nice download of goodies from 22nd April. The Windows XP Creativity Fun Pack has lots of stuff in it for you to play with. Oh and…

Er…the Vigilant Watch is a geiger counter in disguise. Yep, for a piddling $1499.00 you too can have a little ‘radiation monitoring device’ on your wrist that looks cool and bleeps when you’re in mortal danger. Oh the joys of hearing that cheerful little sound just before you see the mushroom cloud vapour.

Wow. It appears as though the new and increasingly famous Honda advert [warning: link to Quicktime video.] is actually real. That’s right, no computer trickery involved. Apparently it took them over 600 takes to get it right. Now that’s dedication. Isn’t it nice when things just work? [via metafilter]

A short but interesting Wired article looking at the rather peculiar inversion of the statistical bell curve in general life. ‘Although bell curve distribution is still considered normal, a surprising number of economic and social phenomena now seem to follow a different arc. Instead of being high in the center and low on the sides, this new distribution is low in the center and high on the sides. Call it the well curve. The end of the middle ground?

Apparently this pose is called a phoon. Did you know that? I didn’t. Well here’s a site that features lots of people doing ‘phoons’ in strange places and situations around the world. The Web, doncha just love it!