Human Airbag

Check out this engadget article on new personal airbags aimed at motorcyclists.  I’m still hoping they invent a process by which they can fuse adamantium to my skeleton and make me invulnerable, but this will have to tide me over; take a look at this video:
 

 
Oops… I probably shouldn’t have posted that. As I write [...]

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Sourdough, Indeed

WFMU’s annual pledge drive was a couple weeks ago, and as I’m an avid listener of The Best Show on WFMU I decided to show my support for Tom and what he does there.  I made a pledge during his show, and this week I finally listened to the podcast of the marathon show, which [...]

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SXSW Awards 2008: Vol 2

Danielle came up with a few extra awards in her comment on my last post:
No award for Least Melodic Metal (Torche)? Or Best Incorporation of a Band’s Name into Their Wardrobe (White Shoes and the Couples Company)? And, my personal favorite: Most Charistmatic Lead Singer (Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, of course).

Nice. These inspired me [...]

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SXSW Awards

So I’m back from SXSW… I thought this was going to be my last year, but it was (once again) so amazing I’ll probably be booking my hotel for next year as soon as is humanly possible. Here are some of the high and lowlights, followed by the full list of bands we saw this [...]

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SXSW Tweetage

Hey dudes-
Blogging from the Frenchkiss Showcase at the Mohawk club in Austin via phone. Things are going swimmingly so far; the weather is great and the shows are picking up steam.
One thing I wanted to share is that I’m twittering a lot from here, so if you’re interested, take a look at my twitter feed [...]

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