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.

The Fitness' eCard.

Lots of excitement coming up. SF robots would be wise to plan ahead to avoid missing any of the action!

Friday June 25th

Enjoy the spunky sounds of one of my favorite bands of 2004, Seattle's The Fitness. They'll be playing at Oakland's Liminal Arts Gallery w/ Paradise Boys, Kid 606, Gold Chains and Sue Cie, Avenue D and Sarah Delush.

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Join me and MoveOn.org for the 11:30pm showing of Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 at the Metreon. This is going to be a huge turnout, so get your tickets online early.

Saturday, June 26th
Missed The Fitness. No problem, see them at 3:00pm at the Virgin Megastore for Free!

Friday, July 23rd
Emerging from the underground, our friends Omar and Jenny (formerly of Club Fake, Sixteen, The Finger) will accompany a DJ set by Ladytron at Rx Gallery. Get your tickets at blasthaus.com and avoid the rush at the door.

Saturday, July 24th
Scissor Sisters with Seattle's The Fitness at Slims! More TBA.

Friday, July 30th

Head to Mezzanine for a very special performance by guest Miss Kittin, who will undoubtedly be promoting her new album, i-com. Even more enticing, she will supported by Ghostly International Art and Artifice featuring Matthew Dear, Dabrye and Midwest Product. It doesn't get much better, robots!

Now this is cool...
Personal home pages are so passe. Thanks to European developer Simeda and their Pocketster application, you can now have a personal mobile page. Pocketster is the world's first wireless personal web server for the PocketPC that advertises itself to other Pocket PCs in the neighborhood using ad-hoc WiFi networks and Rendezvous. Now this makes mobile computing interesting...

A little Fischerspooner news...Casey & Co. are toiling away in the studio on their yet-to-be-named album, however if you catch the TV show Nip/Tuck on FX, you can hear a new Fischerspooner track called " Just Let Go" on June 29. Check local listings for showtimes.

Help Make Fahrenheit 9/11 a Huge Hit
Moveon.org is launching a major campaign to turn out tens of thousands of us in support of Fahrenheit 9/11 on the opening weekend. To view the trailer and sign up to be a part of the campaign, click here. Spread the news, tell a friend!

The iRobotnik Gmail Contest

By now, unless you’re a robot under a rock, you've heard about Google's invite-only e-mail service, Gmail. The benefit of Gmail is you get 1GB of free e-mail storage and an intuitive google-esqe approach to the webmail interface. Gmail account invitations have been so popular, they're being sold on eBay for as much as $75 each. Instead of selling my invitations (I have 3 left), I'm using them to sponsor the first ever iRobotnik Gmail contest. Here's the deal – e-mail me a link to your favorite new electronic song/artist (high-quality MP3 preferred) by no later than Friday, June 25th. You may enter as many times as you like (with a different, unique entry, of course) and at the end of the contest, I'll pick the top 3 entries I like best and invite the winning contributors to open their own Gmail account.

Click here to enter

Superhuman strength. Coming to an exoskeleton near you.

Tonight, head over to Sublounge to bid a fond farewell to Bikini-wax. Live sets in the basement by Luxxury, Freezepop and xoxoxox while Space Cowboys will be spinning furious electro beats upstairs.

Los Angeles magazine's cover article is all about the "New Downtown" includng a map of my soon-to-be new 'hood.

Think Secret has an exclusive report about Apple's totally re-designed family of three flat-panel displays with the addition of a 30-inch HD-ready model.

Seems like I'm up and running on my new web hosting service. Weirdly easy.

Check out Sphere Magazine, issue 01 online now - art, fashion, design - the usual suspects.

Breakdancing Transformers. Need I say more?

Apparently Radioactive Man will NOT be appearing on Saturday (however you can still catch Cybrid and Broker/Dealer):

"Due to circumstances beyond our control, Radioactive Man will not be appearing"

[from dr] Get out the Geiger counters! Nuclear-powered robots will want to head over to 132 Eddy St. this Saturday night to hear Radioactive Man (Two Lone Swordsmen's Keith Tenniswood) along with Cybrid and Broker/Dealer. More info at blasthaus.com.

It's so fun when you're pretty and go grocery shopping. You can laugh and make fun of everything, and race the carts the around, and take 100 items to the express lane, and everyone thinks it's cute and endearing instead of obnoxious and stupid.

See more Supermodel Personals. Thanks Lily.