Richard Dawkins' new book The God Delusion is out. Here's a video clip of Dawkins discussing his book, and here's a presentation he recently gave at the TED conference.

Make your own custom cassette artwork at Says-it.com, and stay tuned for Robot Radio, coming this winter.

You've got just eleven months to prepare for the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships.

This clip of The Art Of Noise playing live is fantastic and is filmed with a gear pornographer's lustful eye-lots of slow pans across the vintage synths, even a long close up of the racks. And the band are dressed as Pierrot. And Paul Morley is sipping a glass of wine. And the audience are completely baffled. Can you think of a better way to start the weekend? [thanks Musicthing]

In case you were wondering, Julian Hamilton and Kim Moyes of The Presets rocked Silverlake's Spaceland last night with a solid lineup of electro beats and sizzling lyrics.



I've uploaded a few more images to a Flickr set in case you want to check it out (or look for yourself in the crowd).

Anyone know where Anderson Cooper gets those great shirts with epaulettes? I think my fall wardrobe needs to be informed by a dash of foriegn war correspondent. Any leads? Let me know.

For all you out-of-towners who missed Banksy's Barely Legal exhibit, here's a quick flickr photoset I just uploaded. Enjoy!

MI RAI-RT, from AIBO's creator Tomoaki Kasugi is the latest robot ready for release upon Japan.

Without further hesitation, I give you Stallion: Master Magician.

I'm back from the Playa, another successful trip to Burning Man. I'm headed out of town again tonight so I don't have time to post much, but I'll give all you robots who were trapped in the default world the hilights. Aside from hanging out for a week with my brilliant, beautiful and uber talented friends, I saw some sights that were simply out-of-this-world:

I finally had a chance to meet, hang out with and see a performance by the legendary Dr. Megavolt. Yes, it was everything it was crackled up to be; an electrifying performance to say the least.

The huge Serpent Mother was amazing; photos do not do justice. It pulsed with fire and heat and was one of the most impressive displays I've seen at Burning Man.

And of course, there was the Waffle. I'm not sure what this immense structure was actually called, but it was dubbed The Waffle by attendees as a result of it's criss-crossed supports and it's Belgian creators. Truly impressive, plus it became a ginormous dance party once the sun went down.

More pictures soon, I promise! You can see a small subset of shots in this online album. Enjoy!