Animal Phone

Courtesy Cuteoverload.com

Forward through backward time

It works best if you don't consciously think about how it happened, but just to let yourself get swept up in the dreamlike music. For some reason this makes me think of the movie Amelie.

Via BoingBoing

I Heart Yellow Drum Machine

More video. I love the tail.

Cute Robot Chaser

This little yellow guy rolls around and finds things to play drums on. He wouldn't team up with the crazy mule robot. He just wants to get on down. Anybody have any more video of him?

Link at Make

Suicide or Murder?

Man, 81, kills himself with shot from 'suicide robot.'

Hate to be all pro-human, anti-robot these days, but with the robots eating all the old people's medications somebody has to stop them.

The Onion News Panel: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

"The president is just appealing to its 'Destroy all Humans' base'" "It happens every election cycle."

"Humans die, so that's a flawed system."

"Praise to the wise ones, our robot masters."

Flying Spaghetti Monster Sculpture Installed on Lawn of TN Courthouse.

Any Pastafarians in for a pilgrimage? May his noodly appendage touch you.

Read the story here:
www.itlovesyou.blogspot.com

For more information about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster go here:
www.venganza.org

I don't even know

Apparently from the Wicker Man remake. That's Nick Cage in the bear suit.

From Filmdrunk's Friday Free For All

Obligatory Easter Post

Following A Special Way of Being Afraid's lead and giving ya'll a Hold Steady quote for Easter.



From "How a Resurrection Really Feels" by The Hold Steady:

Her parents named her Hallelujah,
the kids they called her Holly.
And if she scared you then she's sorry.
She's been stranded at these parties.
These parties they start lovely
but they get druggy and they get ugly and they get bloody.
The priest just kinda laughed.
The deacon caught a draft.
She crashed into the Easter mass
with her hair done up in broken glass.
She was limping left on broken heels and she said,
"Father, can I tell your congregation how a resurrection really feels?"

Metal Gear Mk 1? or Creepiest Robot Ever

I get a wave of revulsion every time this thing rights itself. And your precious human kicks and cinderblocks won't save you.

Obama's Speech

For the five of you who have not seen it, the Huffington Post has the video and complete text.
Best speech of the campaign?

Link

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke

The Guardian has a piece here:

Link

New Web Thingie: FriendFeed

I've been experimenting with Twitter lately, among other Web 2.0 toys. Here's the newest thing.

friendfeed.com

Imagine, if you will, your Facebook feed, telling you about all the things your friends are doing. Put it in a blender with an RSS feed. Add all the other services you use (del.ico.us, Amazon.com Wishlist, Netflix Queue, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, even your shared feeds on Google Reader). Hit puree and you get Friendfeed. All your stuff, one place. You can even install a button in your toolbar to automatically add links to FriendFeed.

I'm trying it out. My address is:
friendfeed.com/hintonjeremya

Join me?

Takeaway Show: Yeasayer "2080"

In 2080 I'll surely be dead
So don't look ahead.

#87.2 - YEASAYER - 2080
by lablogotheque

One of my favorite songs of last year, immortalized on my favorite video blog. Witness.

If you feel like singing along, the shout-out-loud chorus goes like this:

Yeah Yeah we can all grab at the chance and be handsome farmers,
Yeah you can have twenty one sons and be blood when they marry my daughters,
And the pain that we left at the station will stay in a jar behind us.
We can pickle the pain into blue ribbon winners at county contests.

Video: Bon Iver "The Wolves (Act I & II)

From

"Someday my pain with mark you"

to:

"What might have been lost (Don't bother me)"

this is catharsis.

Do not miss Bon Iver at Sticky Fingerz in Little Rock tonight.

Violent Films Vindicated? (But Maybe Adam Sandler is Better)

Ok.  So I'm not sure about the math, but the theory is interesting:

A paper presented by two researchers over the weekend to the annual meeting of the American Economic Association here challenges the conventional wisdom, concluding that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting would-be assailants and keeping them cloistered in darkened, alcohol-free environs.

But just showing violent films might not be the best idea:

In other words, Professor Dahl suggested, Hollywood could help cut crime in more palatable fashion by cutting out the gore while making movies that still attract male teenagers and 20-somethings.

"We need more Adam Sandler movies," he said. "Even though I'm not a big fan of Adam Sandler, that's the implication."

How did I miss this study?

Link to NYTimes Article.

Don't Miss This Show: March 11 Black Mountain/Bon Iver

Although I really hate that Ladyhawk can't make this stop, this will be the show of the (pre-) spring.  The shaggy psych rock of Black Mountain and the fragile, plaintive, haunted folk of Bon Iver go together live peanut butter and chocolate.  You can't miss this show. 

$8 bucks.
Sticky Fingerz
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

NPR's Live in Concert: All Songs Considered. Black Mountain/ Bon Iver in D.C.
Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago at Jagjaguwar
Black Mountain's In The Future at Jagjaguwar
Link to Ticket Alternative to buy Tix

Do not miss this show unless you are somebody lame like Brent Anderson.

Torture Device Coloring Book

Link

Thanks Joel from BoingBoing Gadgets.

Star Wars Titles, Re-Did

Saul Bass style. Awesome.

Garfield minus Garfield

Link

Disturbing. Courtesy Andrew Sullivan.

Mythbuster's Kari Cuts Down/Sets Tree on Fire with Minigun

Thanks Geekologie, for bringing me Kari from Mythbusters, who every geek has a huge crush on, with high powered guns and fire.

"Smells good. Smells like destruction."

Legend of Zelda Song Played On a Carrot

Thanks Joel from BoingBoing Gadgets.

Vampire Weekend PSA for Condoms

I'm too lazy to figure out how to embed this thing. But stereogum.com has an awesome PSA from the boys at Vampire Weekend (if you say who, you are getting punched hard in the throat).

Condom PSA from Ezra and the boys.

Sorry for the absence from the blog. Been making time with a girl...