The Knife

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You've probably already seen it, but . . .

We warned: once you've heard it, you can't get it out of your head.

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"Like crazy, man!"

More here.

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34

I'm 34 today. Looks like I survived my "Jesus year."

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"Harry Patch (In Memory of)" (Radiohead)

"The next will be chemical but they will never learn."

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Sounds from the future

Imagine a post-biological landscape where all the trees are like this . . .

(Found at Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival.)

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Shaking its thing

Say what you will, but I think this chunk of cyborg meat does a great Britney Spears impersonation.

Meat Market from Joan Healy on Vimeo.

Can you say "American Idol"?

(Thanks to Grinding!)

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Bobby McFerrin and "Close Encounters"

This video of Bobby McFerrin reminded me of the scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" where Lacombe is coaching the UFO working group to converse in sign language . . .

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

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Around the sun

To Octavio Paz from Alexander Trevi on Vimeo.

(Discovered at Beyond the Beyond.)

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Ladies and gentlemen . . . The Droids!

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Raquel Welch greets the New Age.

I couldn't be sure, but I think I glimpsed Daniel Pinchbeck at the end.

More Raquel Welch here.

(Thanks to Electric Children.)

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Pole-dancing 2.0

Here's what you get when you let a limber, scantily clad woman loose inside a glass box with a bucket of conductive body-paint.



(Tip of the hat to Fashioning Technology.)

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Happy birthday, Morrissey!

Morrissey, one of my favorite singers, recently turned 50.

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This chick's got the Posthuman Blues *bad*.

"The Humans Are Dead"

"I'm sure I saw a flash of light in the sky."

I'm stealing this from Greg Bishop, who has more to say about it here.

Ready to get sleazy?

Then what are you waiting for?

(Thanks to Michael Garrett for the tip.)

"What Else Is There?"

I have no words to describe how cool this video is.



What Else Is There? from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

Musical interlude

"Sea Within a Sea" (The Horrors)



(Thanks to Justin for the tip.)

Meat puppets

If you're reminded of "THX-1138," you're not alone.

Pink Tentacle has the inside scoop.