Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) 74
derGoldstein writes "Makezine points to a very interesting shop in Akihabara that will make miniature clones of your face. This page contains photos of the process and the results. After the miniature head is printed in 3D it's painted and attached to a doll of your choice. Some of the models they produce beg for an exorcism..."
Re:And to think there are people starving to death (Score:4, Interesting)
Why don't you? Imagine this. Imagine you are at a train crossing, and the train is coming. It is heading right for some people, tied to the tracks. There's a switch, and if you flip that switch, you will switch the tracks, sending the train to a different track. But on this track, instead of people, everything you own is on the track. Question is, do you flip it? Well, we all know what everyone says: 'Of course I flip it! People are more important than things!' But the reality is, we face that situation every day, and most of us do not flip the switch. We could sell off all our possessions, collect all our money, and maybe make a difference in some impoverished starving village somewhere, but we don't. I'm sure you've bought some unnecessary trinket or gizmo or gourmet latte in recent memory, or could find someone to buy that nice 3 digit UID off you and you could keep someone from starving of malnutrition or give some disaster relief or whatever else. But we don't. Fact is, very, very few of us do. We're all just as guilty, by our actions, of saying Fuck the Poor. [youtube.com] But that's life isn't it? Just something to think about when you condemn others of wasting money that could potentially go to a good cause.