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Not your first choice for dinner
A restaurant in China, anticipating the Olympic influx of Anglophone visitors, ran its name through a computer translator and put up a large sign with the results:

Robots
A fascinating video, but you might not want to watch it just before bedtime.
Via The Bad Astronomer, who commented:
….it’s definitely quadrupedal and incredibly life-like in its reaction to such things as a broad kick, a hill, and a slippery surface.
And that buzzing noise! If they want to terrorize a small town, they should paste fly wings on it and let it loose. Pitchforks and torches would follow quickly.
Family on the ‘Net again
Right Angle turns, by one of my father’s old students.
Via Máire.
Beannachtaí na Lúnasa daoibh!
(Lugnasadh/August blessings to you!)