Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...Sony Rolly.

Summer's almost over—but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy summer's favorite sport: The Hipster Olympics!

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Pitchfork has infiltrated the robot pyramid and bring us a view from inside the vessel Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo use to make tens of thousands of people all jump in unison and gyrate their hips in some grand, cosmic harmony.

Wonderfully bizzare, Japan's Gimmie Gimmie Octopus will leave you scratching your head. Yes, it was a real show, around the same time Sid and Marty Kroft were producing their own brand of American psychedelia.

According to an official report, the US has lost track of about 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces since the 2003 invasion, some of which will have ended up in the hands of insurgents. Among the missing items are:
- 110,000 AK-47s
- 80,000 pistols
- 135,000 bits of armor
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