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65 degrees + sunshine + full tank of gas + really wanting to ride the Taconic Parkway = G'bye.

Please Punch Me and Film It in Slo-Mo

Possibly the strangest "artsy" website I've ever seen. Presumably the subjects of these short films have given permission to be punched in the face and have it filmed in ultra slow motion. Even stranger, the subjects are both men and women. To use 'net speak, WTF?

Robotic Reality Catching Up with Fiction

You might remember when Ripley, adeptly portrayed by Sigourney Weaver, climbs into a Powerloader to battle the "bitch" in Alien. More recently, Matrix Revolutions featured twelve minutes of battle footage between APUs and sentinels.

It seems that robotic reality is catching up with fiction. A robotics company named Sarcos has developed "an 'exoskeleton' of aluminum and electronics that multiplies [users'] strength and endurance as many as 20 times."



That sure would make moving furniture a heckuva lot easier. More details are here.

Cats + Treadmill = Hilarity

I laughed. Maybe you will too. Anybody have a treadmill I can borrow? I'd like to see what Sonny and Celeste would do. Sonny would fall asleep immediately and get tossed off the back. Celeste would try to bite the track.

Nine Inch Nails Releases New Album - Free

Trent Reznor wrote on the Nine Inch Nails website, "Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one's on me."

If you like NIN, you should go here and download their new album, The Slip, absolutely free of charge. Even though I'm not a huge fan of NIN, I downloaded it. Why not? I'll give it a listen, keep the tracks I like and delete the rest.

I hope more and more musicians follow this trend. Thanks, Trent. Cool move.

Draw Yourself As a Teenager

Some dude named Dave came up with a neat idea. Based on the hundreds of submissions to his page (and this post), many folks are accepting the challenge of drawing themselves as a teenager.

If you choose to play along, make sure you post a comment and let me know!

(Click on my poorly-drawn image for the large version)

Attack Goose

I found this video to be very funny. I don't know why, but I think it's the increasing frustration in the guy's voice. And maybe this is cruel of me to say, but I would love to see what Lindsay would have done in the same situation.