Not to brag or anything, but I got an award in this (page 75). For this. Yay!

O'reilly's new Make Magazine looks like Readymade for gadget freaks and geeks. I can't wait!

"The people who are into us are smart."

A whole lotta EmPeeThrees.

Ah, Farnsworth house, how I love thee.

Not exactly new, but extremely cool. Also not new, 30 seconds of Fischerspooner's latest song "Just Let Go" from the show Nip/Tuck.

Ruth La Ferla of the NY Times encourages you to take a look around — you’ll soon see it’s not just fellow iRobotnikers that are obsessed with robots, it’s all of society, from the robomates of The Stepford Wives to the latest embellishments by Muccia Prada.

Once again, robots - we're way ahead of the curve.

George Lucas has announced that the next Star Wars film will be called Revenge of the Sith.

Issue 6 of Spain's Fake is dedicated to all you wonderful fashion whores.

If you ever wondered what it would sound like if Stereo Total and Vive La Fête had offspring, then check out Auto. Auto is a french electro band. I like them. You might too.

Also, check out WordCount™ from Fabrica. It's a beautiful interactive presentation of the 86,800 most frequently used English words. See where your favorite vocabulary words rank.

It's shaping up to be a good weekend, robots. In addition to Saturday night's The Fitness/Scissor Sisters show at Slims, you can check out DMX Krew and others on Friday night live at Cafe Du Nord:

DMX Krew - Live & DJ ( REphLEx / Ghostly, Intl) / Safety Scissors - DJ (Poptronix / Plug Research) / UFO - DJ (Compression)

More info here.

Bikes Against Bush, Part II
Recent site updates provide a follow-up to my previous post about using wireless technology and bicycles to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC. Make sure to check out the video.

BitBoy has passed away?

Lots of buzz about this guy Moose today...maybe you've seen links elsewhere. If not check out Symbollix for his work. Basically he's been creating corporate graffiti by cleaning surfaces in the UK. It's brilliant but the authorities are also keen to put an end to it. I'm sure the sentence will involve removing his work......errr. Love the stuff for hype. Genius. [Blatantly ripped off from Dave Pinter, fellow Burnlab consipirator]

More information about Friday, July 30th at Mezzanine with Miss Kittin and Ghostly Int'l Art and Artifice 2004AD tour at Mezzanine. Get your tickets thru Blasthaus.

TDK is big pimpin' with these "Bit Club" minidiscs. Join the club exclusively at Audiocubes.com.

SF expatriate and video artist extraordinaire, Phoenix Perry (of Reline and Memory Systems fame) has created what looks to be a stunning new work of art along with Arnold Steiner and Brian Jackson with their new video, Draw Down. Draw Down explores the relationship between man, machine, environment and the culture of greed. If you're in NYC this Thursday, July 15th you can must catch the premiere of Draw Down as part of the NYC Film and Video Festival followed by a performance by 'Nix herself. More info can be found here. No information yet as to whether a left-coast premiere is on the horizon.

As if we needed another reason to prove Europeans have their shit together when it comes to design.

Also, if you're planning on going to either the Scissor Sisters/The Fitness show at Slim's on July 24th, or Miss Kittin, Dabrye, Midwest Product and Matthew Dear show at Mezzanine on July 30th, you should buy tickets ASAP, they're selling out fast and WILL be sold out by the time the shows roll around. You can get Scissor Sisters tickets at Tickets.com, and Mezzanine tickets are available at Blasthaus.com.

A new low? Definitely not in this city, so if you’re in a mood 2 sing u should check out Peaches Christ's Purple Rain Sing-Along this Friday at the Landmark Bridge theater. Admission comes with a complimentary goodie bag and Peaches hosts an "'80s slut pageant" beforehand to get everyone in the mood.

Not me, but if you had known me at when I was ten...

Yes, you read right. Soft robots.

What if you combined your desire to declutter with a love of eBay and auctioned off everything you owned? Everything. And then, having very little left of your material life, what if you then travelled around to visit the people who had bought your stuff? And the people were in places like Japan and Australia?

Go to allmylifeforsale.com.

John Freyer, of Iowa City, Iowa, did just this, starting in 2000, and has managed to empty out his apartment completely (he has even sold his domain name). I love the idea, and think that the material part of it becomes less interesting very quickly. It is the web of connection that holds infinitely more possibilities. [from apartmenttherapy.com]

Yet another story you didn't really hear about from the American media: On the eve of Bush's recent visit to Ireland, Irish Press Corps journalist Carole Coleman was granted an unmediated interview with GW, and got him audibly ticked off when she asked him pointed questions and his stock answers failed to satisfy her. You can listen to an MP3 stream of the interview here.

Vladcik performs his very popular techno-ballad, Elektronik Supersonik.

Don't forget, Tokyo Electric this Friday.