Helpful advice for the day: How to Create a Robot Army.

Robots, enjoy a 2 hour mix by Erol Alkan of London's Trash Club, completely free. Recorded in July 2005, it's got some of the summer's catchier hooks, as well as some I'm sure you haven't heard before. Just point your browser here (Real Player required).

Future Retro
I'm not much for compilations, but the folks at Rhino are releasing one that looks like it'll be good this September. The 2 disc remix project titled Future Retro pairs some of the most influential artists and songs of the 80s with today's top remixers. Check out the track list, the update should get a lot of old favorites new life on the dancefloor:

The Cure, The Walk [Infusion Mix]
Yaz, Situation [Richard X Remix]
Echo And The Bunnymen, Lips Like Sugar [Way Out West Remix Edit]
INXS, Need You Tonight [Static Revenger Mix Edit]
Depeche Mode, Shake The Disease [Tiga Remix]
Erasure, A Little Respect [Electrospect Mix]
Howard Jones, New Song [Peter Black And Hardrock Striker Mix Edit]
Alphaville, Forever Young [Hamel Album Mix]
New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle [The Crystal Method Extended Mix]
Grandmaster Flash, White Lines [Elite Force Mix]
Devo, Girl U Want [Black Light Odyssey Mix]
B-Movie, Nowhere Girl [Adam Freeland Mix]
Book Of Love, Boy [DJ Irene Rockstar Mix]
Morrissey, Suedehead [Sparks Remix]

Greetings earthlings. It's now 2005 and you have found Zolar-X.

New Depeche Mode single, Precious available now in the iTunes music store!

L.A. Restaurants Have No Glass.
An open rant to L.A. restaurants: Plastic water glasses are not OK. Unless you're a greasy spoon, I expect to be served water in a proper, clean glass, free of nasty plastic aftertaste. Glasses are cheap, there's no excuse. It's just plain tacky.

I'm a huge fan of designer Mike Mills, which is no shock once you learn he honed his skills working for Tibor Kalman at M&Co back in the eighties. Just look thru the work he and the other geniuses at Directors Bureau have done...So naturally I'm happy to hear that his new movie, Thumbsucker is starting to get some buzz. It premiers on September 16th here in LA and in NYC, it's tough to tell from the trailer, but I think it's going to be a fantastic film. Quirky in the vein of Napoleon Dynamite, but with more depth and heart.

Over at Spherical Robots they're recreating faces (or anything else for that matter) with the Bitfall. It's a special Wasser-Strukturen (water structure) that allows one to create images on falling droplets of water. Sehr gut mein Roboterfreund! [via Jason]

Time-waster of the day: Ultimate Flash Face
This flash app is amazing and addictive. Select from a comprehensive palette of facial features to draw your very own mug-shot style picture. My mug-shot looks far more dignified than my actual photo!

I'm looking for information on a short film called Stereomongrel about 70's and 80's hip-hop consumerism, but google returned zero results. Any robots with leads?

Boy do I get sick of the attitude I get from some about drum machine music. Drummers are better. Drum machines are better. Well my robofriends, we’ve known the answer for some time now. Real drums played by a midi-driven pneumatic robot trumps all, so put that in your pipe or whatever you’ve got and smoke it. Check out the pictures and video.

For most of us, the joy of flipping through stacks of vinyl records or CDs met its demise at the hands of the digital music revolution. Luckily, for OS X Tiger users, there’s a superb new way of browsing your music collection with CoverFlow. It’s the next best thing to flipping thru a crate, without all the dust.

The Christian Paradox: America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior.

I'm not a sports fan. In fact, I'm about the furthest thing from a sports fan, so you can imagine how annoying it is hearing coworkers drone on about their fantasy football or other sports time-wasting fluff. Now, thanks to Fantasy Fashion League, I can be just as annoying by wasting my afternoon with fashion's answer to fantasy football and the like. Pick your favorite designers and earn points when their fashions show up in magazines. Brilliant!

New from Ladytron, check out the video Destroy Everything You Touch directed by Adam Bartley.