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Korea unveil’s world’s 2nd (life-like) android. I had no idea there was another, but there is: it’s Japanese.

Best Buy invaded by faux blueshirts! Hail Eris!

Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. “Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,” one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. “I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!”

Student kicked out of private university for – get this – being gay! Honestly, wtf?!

This revolving kitchen is a serious space-saver. How awesome is that?

Superhero underwear fetish spoof! Female superheroes have always been objectified as so much T&A… now male superheroes can be fluffy C&B models!

German superhero Robin Hoods steal gourmet food to give to the poor!

“The Not Your Soldier Project gives youth the tools we need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities.”

Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer.

Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts tracks!

3D pictures of 9/11.

The Skeletor Show. Yup. The Skeletor Show.

Terrorist video game mod is a hoax. Who knew? Anyone with half a brain, that’s who.

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Woman, 56 and wheelchair-bound, killed by Taser. Taser use is quickly getting out of control. When i lived in Jacksonville, Florida, it was practically a death sentence to be mentally impaired and have a bad day. I remember several incidents where citizens would have a bit of a public freak-out and wind up in the morgue. Then, it was a case of the police using unsafe choke holds. Now, they’re using the magic of electricity to subdue. I think it’s just a little too easy. I mean, i don’t like guns one bit, but this allegedly non-violent solution is unfortunately a heavy factor in many unnecessary deaths. From a related article:

And even though Scottsdale, Arizona-based Taser, Inc–the company that created it–said it should never be used on children or the elderly, Florida leads the nation in deaths by Taser. The oldest victim to date? Ninety-five. The youngest? A 6-year old boy.

Googlemap of historic nuclear accidents. Spooky, and makes you rethink how safe nuclear energy is.

ACLU releases its FOIA-enabled report on prisoner abuse.

Boing Boing has a great roundup of Immigrants’ Rights rallies for May 1.

Neil Young‘s new Living With War album now streaming. It’s a fuckin’ scorcher of a rock record!

Weird Video: “Stop the Madness,” the only White House-sponsored rock video ever made. Antidrug. Very, very bizarre. I’m telling you, i actually took drugs just so i could stop this madness. [disclaimer: i do not use any drugs besides nicotine these days.] Although this video probably aired less than 20 times nationwide, it was probably actually really, really cool… for a negative amount of time. Seeing such sights as Nancy Reagan lip-synching the words, and a living, talking threatening David Hasselhoff poster, however, may make you feel like you really are on drugs.

Weird Video: C for Cookie, a V for Vendetta spoof. Awesome!

Weird Video: New Logitech Orbit webcam. Awesome!

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WoW says no GLBT recruiting, then backs off. A nearly surreal look at how/what mainstream straights actually think regarding gender issues.

Rev. Magdalen, SubGenius, is losing a custody battle – just because she belongs to a weirdo UFO-centric fringe cult. Now if that ain’t American as Jesus pie, i’m not sure what is. Actually, i’m really not sure what is. Regardless, her involvement with this satire group – of which i am a card-carrying member – is absolutely protected by the Constitution, and does NOT make her unfit for her motherial duties. WTF.

Allan Kaprow, inventor of the “Happening,” R.I.P.

Ernest Angley, plus god, will cure you of AIDS. Or rather, he will make your poor, undereducated community believe that he has, thereby increasing the virus’s exposure potential. Another sad, pathetic bastard (and from Ohio, oh lord) wrecking our world through ignorance and lies.

Seymour Hersh tells it: Bush increasingly heading in the direction of Iran, via Hiroshima. Didn’t my generation come close enough to total obliteration via this guy’s dad’s boss already? Fear, pt II: the Nuclear Option.

Hilarious concept device: a USB drive that bloats like a tick filling up with blood.

TBS’s hilarious LOTR commercial.

Evolution gets a stunning piece of evidence: demonstrating the bit-by-bit progression of evolution.

Fibonacci-based poetry.

Shame on AT&T for being Big Brother’s squealing little tattle-tale kid brother. Bright side: free Gitmo vacations for everyone!

Trading up, from a paperclip, to… a house? Hey, he’s got one free year’s rent in Phoenix already!

Goth subculture may help self-hurting kids. Take that, squares!

Nerdcore hiphop.

Cannabis’s long-term effects: the jury, not surprisingly, is still out.

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cool page: last 100 songs played

Last 100 songs played on my iTunes, with album covers and extended info. Cover and album title link to product page on Amazon. Courtesy of iTunesSpy (plugin for WordPress), hacked by yours truly.

(Current track still on sidebar – i’ve reduced it from last 5 songs because i felt it was TMI.)

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from the Missing Link files: 375 million year old Fishapod fossil discovered. A fish with a freaking neck. Oh, and finger-like bones attached to wrist-like bones. Fuck you, Creationistas! (See also: Ray Troll’s related artwork)

“Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project, and the Birth of the Atomic Age”, a fabulous piece by Josh Ellis (see also: video of Ed Grothus’ Black Hole tour)

SXSW video coverage. Sweet.

Big Brother is (or will soon be) watching you, via SkySeer. Already this drone camera-plane is in use in L.A. skies.

Remember this, GWB? “Leaks of classified information are bad things. We’ve got too much leaking in Washington… I want to know who the leakers are.” Does anyone have a mirror for Mister Bush?

PS3 for $600-700?!

It’s All in the Mind, man: psychedelics research.

Israeli soldier murders journalist. From a related BBC News story:

“The inquest has heard that Mr Miller approached an armoured personnel carrier, carrying a white flag which he shone a torch on, calling out that he was a British journalist and wearing a helmet marked TV. He was shot in the neck, unprotected by his body armour.

He had been attempting to ask for permission to leave the area.”

So, yeah, just keep on supporting Israel, all you Left Behind-reading end-times obsessed know-nothing Revelationist fuckwits.

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The universe just gained a lot of weight: Neutrinos evidently have mass after all.

Speaking of fat: Homer now has to have a bigger screen.

Prayer probably powerless. Having heart surgery? Prayer won’t help you. Looks like regular exercise and a healthier diet is all that can save us now.

“Only three things are certain in life. MySpace, Taxes, and Death.”

Coolest. Case mod. Evar.

Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on The Future of the Web (w/ mp3).

From the WTF!? files: Flying Spaghetti Monster (anti-ID spoof) on Al-Jazeera. Do not adjust your set; you read that correctly.

“Respectfully missing” David Byrne/Brian Eno …Bush of Ghosts track “Qu’ran” turns up as mp3 on blogs.

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

The classic David Byrne(rss)/Brian Eno(fansite) album has been remastered, and will soon have 2 songs’ entire multitrack content available for remixing under the Creative Commons license.

More info available on the album’s official site, which also includes a rare video for the song “Mea Culpa”.

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video: Cocker Spaniel rocks out to ex-GBV Bob Pollard @ SXSW 2006

My LiveJournal friend Sean Padilla, of masterful freakpop one-man band The Cocker Spaniels, rocks out (in front) to former Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard‘s set at SXSW.

Sean seriously fucking rocks. Get The Cocker Spaniel’s latest CD you fools.

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Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

Interesting article about hypocrisy and “pro-life”

V for Vendetta: fucking completely awesome. They did it right, and they did it well indeed. We need V here in the Former United States.
Prince’s new album is so good, it’s scary.

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live local music, again

Another fantastic night out at the Stockyard’s Inn. The Razor Ridge Band (currently Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt & best friend Sarah – Matt’s wife) played better and more confidently than last time. Sarah and Matt did amazing harmony. Tim sang better and stronger too, and played such a fine and harmonic dobro. My new hero Dennis Rotterman played in a three-piece and they sounded terrific. I actually had three whole entire beers. A great time and many laughs were had.

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live local music

I’ve been getting the music bug. This weekend i had the pleasure of seeing Holly’s dad Tim, uncle Matt, and, er… “aunt” Sarah play a pretty darn good quasi-bluegrass set (including a great cover of Neil Young’s “I Am A Child” – Matt & Sarah sing amazing harmony, and Tim is a tasty dobro player) at the Stockyard’s Inn on Springfield Street in Dayton (which, incidentally, used to be a brothel and still has red velvet wallpaper), but also a fantastic musician named Dennis Rotterman, who is an amazing player and songwriter. I hope to see him around lots more. If you haven’t seen him, you’ve been missing out; and if you have seen him, you probably wonder, like me, why he isn’t, like, famous or something.

In case you’re wondering, i’m not into bluegrass. It’s ok, i guess, but so much of the songs are either religious (yuck!) or sad-assed backward-staring gave-up boo-hoos. There are simply far too many better things to do than cry into a glass of beer in between pretending that you’re filled with something called “the holy spirit”.

my god, it is far too late to be up. i have to be at work in 8 hours! enough for now.

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ain’t got time for The Shins

here’s an old track from the early 90s. i recorded this on a Fostex X-26 4-track cassette recorder with a Dixon Les Paul copy and a Radio Shack mic. enjoy the (badly done) faux Robert Plant-isms.
[audio:https://transmothra.com/audio/sins.mp3]