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"If I was in a band I would write a slow song with an 808, reverb, and a female vocalist, and call that song 'Zach Braff’s Eyes Reflected in My Nano.'"

"Equalizing the balance causes your brain to reorganize the tones, so that you hear two smooth melodies instead."

Check out "things for sale i will mail you" and everything else. Cute and creative and solemn and exuberant. Wonderful.

Lodwick and pals debate capitalism through Tumblr. "This proves not only that Tumblr is a good platform for public debates, but that true debate on the Internet is possible." Didn't doubt that, but this is interesting.

In response to Calacanis' "fire people who aren't workaholics" bullshit. "If your start-up can only succeed by being a sweatshop, your idea is simply not good enough."

A few NYC friends are getting into this.

Christopher Fahey on the cycles of adoption and adaptation that determine how we interact with technology and media. Maybe we'll all be okay after all.

"Best known for touring the country spreading the good word of D.I.Y. electronics with uniquely playful performances and Circuit Bending Workshops."

The University of Hawaii's alternative arts online magazine.

The text of this article is pretty incredible, but the picture is the best part. She's all, "YEAH I DID IT! AGAIN! HAHAHA!"

Creatively-captioned NES screenshots. "The problem with me and video games is that I want them to love me as much as I love them and they can't, so I have to fill in the blanks myself."

Of all the Garfield mods, I think this is the best.

"...if anyone offers you a single CD of Zaireeka mixed down from it's four parts, remember to laugh in their face."

"Think of your favorite teddy bear. Now imagine it’s been ripped open, gutted, and turned inside-out. That’s what Kent Rogowski’s Bears series has done to the iconic stuffed animals of our childhoods."

Like The Bejar Family Circus without The Family Circus.

Just like it says. "If you don't believe in recompense, who will fix the fence for you?"

Interview with a man afflicted with Body Integrity Identity Disorder who took care of the problem by staging an accident and amputating his right hand.

The answer lies in parallax.

If, for some reason, FlickrExport ever fails me.

"Songwriter John Darnielle wrote descriptions of each song on the album," and Jeffrey Lewis illustrated them all into a three-page booklet. Read along!

Scary lecture on torture techniques by Dr. Larry Forness of the American Military University in 2005. "I fill a syringe with the pig’s blood and threaten to inject him in the arm. The prisoner will talk -- and quickly."

Interview with author Sumie Kawakami about sexless marriages and the falling birth rate in Japan. Covers a lot of interesting ground, if lightly.

"391 was first published by the poet and artist francis picabia in 1917 and was a bridge between the zürich dadaists, french surrealists, marcel duchamp and others."

Remix album free for download after cease-and-desist drama. It's okay.

"This track is like being raised on velvet pillows and then, on your 18th birthday, having a crazy albino mannequin begin to rub sandpaper on your face."

"We're so in love it's like a Flaming Lips show in my heart every day."

Of honey-holes and dwarf strippers. "I remember his defined clavicle, and the powerful smell of his cheap perfume, joined with the mouth-texture of ultrapasteurized rice pudding and the tongue-burr of remnant tinfoil attached to the plastic cup."

Kieran explains the importance of ideas, process, computers, and the mastering of technology that works when it comes to creating music. Loaded with great technical and system setup details.

"what software developers do best is learn. Employers should be loooking for passionate, driven, flexible self-educators who have a proven ability to code in whatever language -- and serving them up interesting projects they can engage with."

On crazy geniuses and products with and without imagination. "And the iPod itself is a shiny fruit fallen to earth from an enchanted tree in a mystical fairy land populated entirely by crazy geniuses."