World’s first bionic man! HE’S REAL and he cost SIX MILLION!!! It’s here! It’s here! Bionic Man Moves Artificial Arm With Brain As if that wasn’t weird enough, get this (emphasis mine): By the time it’s perfected, the cost of manufacturing the bionic arm is expected to be about $6 million, according to the report.

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The Onion 2056 is the funniest Onion read in ages. Also, their design looks spectacular and I hate them.

Be sure to go outside and check out the moon tonight so you can see the Summer Moon Illusion. Remember that monster moon in “Joe vs. The Volcano”? Of course you don’t. How about the moon from Cher’s “Moonstruck”, where there’s this gargantuan screen-filling moon? Well, that’s what this looks like. By the way, both…

Cheerleaders disciplined for putting feces on pizza

Russell Crowe throws a phone at a hotel employee and gets arrested. Looks like he and Tugga are still looking for people to beat up. Crowe has a reputation for scrapping for fights. I wonder what Crowe was shouting?

Oh yeah, it’s National Doughnut Day! That means you get free Krispy Kreme doughnuts today! Now, two warnings: 1) Krispy Kreme regularly hands out a “free sample” when you go in on any given day. Their free sample is an entire doughnut, which is disconcerting because I usually go in to buy one doughnut. Krispy…

I hate the Blood Sucking Monkeys. Worst band to come out of Seattle since Hole.

I just got back from voting. In 2002 I went to my polling place in the evening and there wasn’t a line. Of course, that was an off-year election and a different time of day, so there’s not really a basis for comparison. Today, there were about 40-60 people ahead of me and it took…

If you’ve not read Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court,” or like my friend Robert (for whom I post this link) haven’t even heard of it, you need to buy it. It is a prototypical sci-fi/fantasy story, written before anyone ever talked of “time machines” or “rips in space/time”, which is why…