One of my new favorite satirical websites is PleaseRobme, a database of absent-minded social networking updates broadcasting that the user is away from home. In the words of the website,

“So here we are; on one end we’re leaving lights on when we’re going on a holiday, and on the other we’re telling everybody on the internet we’re not home.”

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I’m not a big fan of their music, but OK Go’s videos?  Pretty ridiculous.  (Maybe that’s where they’re spending their creative energy.)

The eyes and ears of our future cybernetic overlords have taken shape, thanks to the industrious engineering work of the Germans. How ironic.

The Hexacopter can zoom in and out of view in the blink of an eye, and sounds like an “angry swarm of bees” as it collects intelligence, scans for impure thoughts, and prepares a euthanasia beam for its thankful victims.

Four days ago, Andrew Joseph Stack, an otherwise unremarkable software engineer in his 50s, committed an act of terrorism when he crashed a small plane into the Texas State IRS center in Austin. While many people are still processing this event and its potential ramifications, some media sources seek to bury this story and downplay its significance.

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Yet another example of the vastly advanced alien culture that resides in Japan. Here is an inkless, paperless, printer that can erase and re-write already printed pages. Upon discovering this marvel, my damaged mind wondered about the implications of such a device at Dunder-Mifflin. How will Michael Scott deal with his now completely archaic paper/printer company? How long can he last? (That’s what she said).

Thank bejesus I have no plans on buying a PS3. Though taking nature photographs of RPG fiends frolicking with trolls does seem like a pleasant way to spend Valentine’s Day. Surely Sony could have found some way to augment this lamely 2D experience into a more Avatar-ish 3D?

Much as I hate privacy, I am starting to come around to the idea that Facebook and Twitter are the beginning of the end of the Golden Age of the Internet. Purely because I charge them each with half a count of the murder of blogging.

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This is the one reference I’ll allow to the gadgetary “phenomenon” that is little more than a large print Iphone.

For more on why Mac Users are impotent tech fetishists and unwitting, unpaid salesman for the company, see TMR #16 and #35. No offense intended, of course 🙂

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Forget leg room and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), (Here’s a link for all you Brits), bring on Foot Room! (copyright pending)

Airbus, that airplane manufacturer that just doesn’t know when to bow down to Boeing and give up already (sorry Brits), has proposed a standing-room only option…

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From the creator of Mep favorite, Auto-Tuning the News, comes this Martin Luther King Jr. ballad from beyond the grave.