Pneumatic and Electronic Actuated RoboT. P.E.A.R.T. is a robot that is made to be set up in front of any drum set and play the drums with any MIDI file as the input. It is capable of running 16 seperate drum channels, with each drum capable of being hit up to 19 times per second (which sounds pretty awesome on a bass drum by the way). They've got some small videos of this thing running and it's pretty damned cool...I'd love to see it play something a bit more complex though.

Oh the humanity!! William "Captain Kirk" Shatner, everyone's favorite practitioner of "rishathra", has released a NEW ALBUM. Unfrigginbelievable!! Those of you who have heard his work on the classic "Golden Throats" must be a shocked as I am by all this...I suppose we can hope his vocal cords have aged like a fine wine, even though I *still* don't think enough time has passed for them to have improved enough! By the way, upon listening, the sample song from the album is an absolutely sucktacular combination of Casio grade synth and near spoken word lyrics...lyrics that MIGHT sound plausible from someone 18 years old but sound VERY incongruous from Shatner's mouth at his age. Must resist...the urge...to buy this!!

Although crop circles don't get the press they did back in the early 90's, they still occur on a frequent basis...and they've gotten somewhat more complex. CircleMakers is a website dedicated to this phenomena and it's "practitioners". Check out the photo section for some mindblowing designs...the advance planning on some of these things must be tremendous!

Which File Extension are You?

Recently added to the list of things I really didn't need to see before I die...a male cat masturbating. Oh and it's probably not work safe unless your job is masturbating caged animals for artificial insemination (bonus points to anyone who knows the movie reference for that job title.)

My friend Bob could learn a few things from this rant - "I don't mind sucking you off, but here's what I need from you."

Vagiseal - because you have a hard time controlling your urges.

Nice retro-tastic informational newsreel style Flash animation called "Posting and You"...designed to teach noobs the basic rules of message boards. The best advice they give IMHO is "shut up and go outside you forum whore!"

Go check out ZipDecode...a cool ass Flash utility which will slowly narrow down the possible locations digit-by-digit whilst you type in any zipcode in the US. Pretty damned nifty!

Zoom Quilt is a pretty trippy bit of continual art that you sort of "fly" through using the arrow keys on your keyboard. I was a bit disappointed that you can't go left and right...but I also understand what sort of complications that would create for a project like this!

Got anger issues or just a man hating feminist? In either case you'll love throwing rocks at boys.

I've seen some pretty questionable products on the market but I have to say that Candy Ear Wax ranks right up there at the top. A plastic "ear" filled with gooey flavored gel that you eat with a lollipop "cotton swab"...inexplicable although it probably has a strong but small following among 7 year-old boys who spend a lot of time in the principal's office!

See how well you do with this Bladerunner quiz...I scored a 13 out of 13 so I doubt I need to tell you that this is one of my favorite movies of all time. The most difficult part for me was making sure I didn't confuse details with those from the book that it was based.

A nice collection of VR panoramas...I'd head for the ones of temples in Egypt, the Yucatan peninsula, and other such places. They seem to be obsessed with beaches and, although it's a travel site, if you've seen one beach, frankly, you've seen them all.

Well, Bruce Springsteen has kicked off his Bush bashing concert tour and there's always Punk Voter promoting an anti-Bush slate of bands...

...then there is an artist actually putting her money where her mouth is...instead of bitching about what isn't happening, she went and made things happen. I've always liked Sarah McLaughlin and she definitely proves she's a class act with her new video (iTunes users click here, all other click here.) It's nice to see an artist practice what they preach in such a visible way. I wonder if Bruce and all of his Kerry apologists would even consider dumping the "perks" of their profession and insisting the money be put to use as Sarah has done...somehow I doubt many of them would.

Of course, we must always remember that the recently departed Johnny Ramone was an avowed conservative and there's always Conservative Punk Magazine for the rest of us!

(Sarah McLaughlin links via ongoing)

To recreate the sound of instruments played in a concert hall, speakers should be designed just as though they were actual musical instruments. For starters, the speaker diaphragm ought to be made of wood – the same material used for making violins, cellos, and other instruments. This was the engineering fantasy that first got the ball rolling at JVC 20 years ago, when we made the first prototype. Or at least that's the word from the engineers at JVC concerning their new wood coned speakers. I'd have to hear these to believe this...but they do look pretty fargin' cool! And not only they made of wood, just like the musicians that play them they are soaked in alcohol...that's how they make the wood formable.

The "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Anal Piercing but Were Afraid to Ask" page actually has a hell of a lot more information on anal piercing than I ever needed to know...I don't even think I needed to know that people actually were doing this.

Mindless massacre...that's what Metal Slug is all about. Beautifully rendered in full 8-bit glory but it gets boring FAST!

Another really simple but terrifically annoying game. That's you to the left and your job is to collect other squares of the same color...but every time you do the game speeds up. Collect circles of the same color for "power-ups" and avoid anything red. Simple. Annoying! Squares 2.