Marshall fridge

The good folks at Marshall have just come up with this genius concept: a compact fridge that looks just like an amp, so you can keep your beer chilled for that after-gig party backstage. A smokin' hot chick and a cool fridge, what's not to love about this ad?

The Goldman Sachs Muppet Song

I know an instant classic when I see one and this sure is what it is!!

Homo communicatus

I guess that's the present and the future of mankind right there...

OK GOpid

Viral internet music band OK GO have apparently decided to put their skills to good use by creating a new type of online dating site, which they have named OK GOpid. And yes they've managed to invent something even sillier than regular online dating sites, which are already very much silly enough. Theirs is best described as a Rube Goldberg-esque take on Chatroulette...

Oh Behave

And all this time I hadn't known how Austin Powers had been the inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up... see the original here. Hell, we shall not shy away from sexy on this blog. Bosons? check. Protons? check. Beautiful models? check check!! Grrrr you're a tiger, baby!!

Steve Bell on Assad

Not sure if I want to laugh or cry on that one... OK to be perfectly honest, when I first saw this I totally burst into laughter-just couldn't help it. Steve Bell really is a genius...

Woz waits in line for new iPad

The Woz is still such a great guy, can't believe he's not the new CEO of Apple. He'd certainly bring the magic back that's already missing...

Steve Bell on British PM visit to U.S.

Another great laugh from The Guardian's cartoonist Steve Bell. Every time I feel grateful for the way he turns a situation that would otherwise inspire great frustration and despair at the sight of so much idiocy from our political leaders into good fun. Thank you Steve, the world would be hell without you...

Darth Vader resigns from Empire

Following Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith, who posted his resignation letter today in an op-ed in the NYT, Darth Vader has resigned from the Empire, too. In a blistering critique of his former employer, Mr Vader explains, "Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and killing your former mentor with a light saber. Today if you make enough money you will be promoted to a position of influence, even if you have a disturbing lack of faith."
This is totally frightening indeed: it means we are now living in a world where plain, old-school evil won't do anymore and taking over the world has fallen to the wayside as the ultimate evil-doer's goal. Nowadays real evil is all about building a death star, ostensibly to terrorize the Galaxy, and then selling its mortgage short over to the alliance so they can blow it up in grand, spectacular fashion and then screw the imperial storm troopers onboard, they're all just clones anyway...

Pi Day

Happy Pi Day to y'all!

Steve Bell on NATO in Afghanistan

Scary to think our politicians and generals are such a bunch of idiots cretins imbeciles incompetents... still just as bad as during the butchery in the trenches of WWI.

We love you, Japan

Why the world isn't ending in 2012

The good folks at NASA/JPL have just done an interview of astronomer Don Yeomans, in which he explains why the world won't be ending on December 21st, 2012 as many people believe. His arguments are obviously scientifically accurate and totally sensible yet I'd like to add the following one: if the world were ending this year the stock market would've already discounted it... or perhaps I'm totally wrong and Wall Street types do happen to think that the end of the world is a good thing. Now how would one short the entire world? I'm surprised I haven't yet heard of at least one clever trader selling End of the World Swaps (EWS's) and of hordes of gullible idiots buying them in droves...

Fraunhofer Institute's Portrait Robot

This past week marked the start of CeBIT in Germany and the Fraunhofer Institute staged a demonstration of a KUKA AG robotic arm taking the digital picture of passers-by and then sketching the outline on a white board. Wunderbar.

NYT profile of scientific illustrator

Wonderful interview by the NYT of Mick Ellison, scientific illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I think he's absolutely right: if you draw something you essentially recreate it and then you can really get a good understanding of how things work together. That's basically the way that Leonardo approached his own scientific illustration art. Great stuff.

Steve Bell on Republican race

Can't believe I'd missed that one and so true, so true... Romney, Santorum and the other Republican candidates do make George W. Bush look like a George Washington amazingly enough...

NASA astronaut flings Angry Bird on ISS

This is so much fun and such a good way to illustrate the principle of inertia to Angry Bird-playing children. Now I wonder who nowadays is most in need of publicity: Angry Birds makers Rovio or NASA? my guess is, given the long-term debt dynamics of the U.S., soon enough it is the ISS that will be sponsored by Rovio and Apple...

The Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey

Staid British period drama takes on a new life as a hip-hop tale straight from da LA. Not sure who'd laugh the hardest at this: the English or the Angelinos?

Steve Bell on Afghanistan

Cartoonist Steve Bell once again goes straight to the point and asks, why?? why on Earth are we still in Afghanistan when this stupid war has been a massive failure from the start and has been so for more than ten years and the people there don't even want our 'help'?

ARM's CEO takes Intel seriously

Interesting interview from the WSJ with ARM's CEO Warren East, on competing with Intel and the future of mobile processor architecture. He expresses confidence in their edge over Intel and makes some interesting remarks on why processors in mobile phones are not likely to reach more than four cores anytime soon.

Maurice André plays Telemann

Can't get over Maurice André's death... it's just too sad. Here's the master playing the third movement from Telemann's Concert Sonata in D Major. Just phenomenal.

La Casa de mi Padre

Will Ferrell's latest-in Spanish and in color!!

RIP Maurice André

It is with immense sadness that I learned this week of the passing of French trumpeter Maurice André at the age of 78. Perhaps one of the greatest soloists on any instrument, if not the very greatest, Maurice André was an inspiration who combined the highest level of skill with a beautiful artistic sensitivity. We will miss you, maestro.

Horsing around

Meanwhile in Britain... the tabloid press scandal keeps on giving. At least cartoonists are having a good time with it, such as Steve Bell and his latest masterpiece.

Help!

Speaking of the Republican primary elections, I just spotted this cartoon on npr.org and now that's a really good one. Someone put it in music?