We here at TMR usually pride ourselves on the ability to wade through the internet’s digital morass of celebrity nonsense, gadget fetishism, and vacuous top-10 lists, to bring you something unique and substantive every day. Today I’m going to have to temporarily surrender.

You see, a certain unnamed former sexpot and pop-star died today. Therefore, there is no other news.

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This mashup via “directorial collective,” Crush, is comprised of over 400 intertwined video pieces. The result is a little overwhelming — it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. I found myself drawn to the giant wormhole into nothing on the third tier — and then found a line of treadmill runners to the left. Overall, it’s a strangely addictive mishmash.

And now, the world premiere of a new Mep trailer…

Everyone needs to be loved, even evil alien superbeings and cyber constructs. The following short is a tale of a love so powerful, it crossed movie trilogies, genders, and even parallel universes to come true.

This is the tale of Smith & Zod.

Feel free to  Digg this video.

Anti-weed advocates are slowly being painted into a corner. Realizing that the good old modes of propaganda and fear mongering aren’t fooling teenagers anymore, crusaders are turning to circular logic in an attempt to confuse and disorient those still on the fence. Gateway Theory is an old standard, along these lines: If smoking pot makes you more likely to shoot pure anthrax into your left ventricle, then clearly it should be kept illegal, right?

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This man has the tongue of a poet, the speed of a gazelle, and the mind of a stewed cantaloupe.

“All I did was change my name, and your evil witch queen said it’s not allowed to be!”

Great piece by UCLA upstart Joaquin Baldwin that made a run at this year’s Cannes.

Sebastian’s Voodoo from Joaquin Baldwin on Vimeo.

Living Forever Really Wouldn’t Be That Bad (Except for the Seven Sets of Teeth), Fruit Fly Empathy Camp, Kidnapping Twins in the Name of Science, Greg Questions the Evolutionary Benefits of Feeling Like Crap, The U.S. Economy = Ponzi Scheme, Time to Reset the Economy (if Storey Gets Paid), Storey Wants neither Science nor Nature nor Anything Else, Humans Aren’t All That Evil (Except When They Are), and Everyone Loves Conspiracies.

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Great TED mini-lecture on a scientific study examining delayed gratification and its ability to allow people to more effectively live up to their potential.

Originally posted on the Fresh Scent.

Today’s object lesson on the consequences of having a rational national drug policy comes to you from the Netherlands.

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Here’s the trailer for an upcoming indie documentary on inventor and luminary Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is well known for his involvement in artificial intelligence development, as well as his prediction of the ‘Singularity,’ which refers a hypothetical future benchmark during which the rate technological change outpaces human ability to comprehend the changes.