Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our Joel spots this robotic Bible-copying monk-arm, called "Kuka," which "appears to be a fairly standard industrial robot... reprogrammed to inscribe the entire Martin Luther bible onto a endless roll of paper...[in a] calligraphic style." Link, Discuss this on Boing Boing Gadgets

(Image credit: Robotlab : bios [bible] (2007) from Marc Wathieu's Flickr stream)

Here's a HOWTO for making a flashing Super Mario Bros 1UP Mushroom Jack-O-Lantern, which uses a string of different colored LEDs to make it cycle through the 8-bit palette. Link (Thanks, Hacknmod!)

The Chronotheric Fluxing Capacitron is a lovely steampunk gadget that crackles with blue light, appearing to be some kind of time-travel thinggum. Flickr use Absinthetic notes that it was a "prop to accompany my Halloween 2007 costume, which was a 19th century time traveler." Link (Thanks, R!)

Update: The creator's weighed in on the comment thread with a link to an earlier version

One Heptillion Pleasures Await You in Boing Boing's Garden of Steampunk Delights! Dilute Dilute Dilute OK!

DJ Inubito sez, "The new Rhyme Torrents Halloween Disc is out. It's actually two CDs of Halloween-themed nerdcore, and it sounds great." Link (Thanks, DJ Inubito!)

The Toronto Star ran a huge advertising section promoting "anti-counterfeiting legislation" that attacks Canada's generic drugs and serves as a back door for DRM laws and Draconian copyright penalties -- but they ran it as news, even though they were "sponsored" by the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.The claims in the "article" were one-sided and ignored the rebuttals that the paper's own Michael Geist had published. Link

See also: Anti-counterfeiting treaty turns into maximum copyright free-for-all

Update: A reader writes, "The Torontoist blog points out that in the same issue, the Star ran a lengthy story on how to find a knock-off bag in New York, complete with directions."

Woot.shirt's got a tee sporting this nifty tubemap diagram of the human digestive tract. Like the London tubemap, it sports a St Pancreas station. Link (via Kottke)

My pal Jen Lum says, "It's not quite the Blue Angels, but there's something very mesmerizing about tractor square dancing. Check out the precision moves!"
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Last week, I posted the cryptobotanical tale of a tree that's allegedly eating cows in Uppinangady, Mangalor, India. Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman found a TV Daijiworld report from the village, including interviews with witnesses, footage of the tree (now chopped), and an introduction to one of the victims. I especially dig the 70s porn soundtrack that segues into a rip-off of the X-Files theme. Link

Previously on BB:
• Tale of the tree that ate cows Link
• Virtual museum of carnivorous plants Link
• Plant eats mouse Link