A: Yes, Dick Cheney's robot heart ran out of batteries.
No, I don't even need punchlines anymore. I'm just going to sit here waiting for the dystopian-future vice president to shoot another old man in the face or whatever.
A: I didn't think so but I'm still convinceable...
An ex-girlfriend introduced me to the Dresden Dolls' "Coin-Operated Boy" last year. I think she meant it as an insult, but whatever — I love it! So I was glad to discover just now, via Table of Malcontents, that it was made into a video.
The video's two years old and not necessarily amazing, but I'm posting it anyway because (a) the song itself's irresistible and (b) T.A.M.S.Y. hearts fuckable robots.
A: Yes! Or maybe! Or possibly there's no way in hell.
Such is the level of excitement/confusion/indifference surrounding D-Wave Systems, Inc.'s plans to unveil Earth's first-ever quantum computer. Which is totally going to change the world, pending its actually existing.
Wish I could make it to the paradigm shift,
but my only transport is a Segway.
A: Because some Internet nerds have come up with a totally superior variation on the song that doesn't end.
It's got a beat, and you can dance to it! Or you can very closely approximate the area of a circle to it, anyway.
Nerdiest of all, though, is that the song seems to have been composed specifically according to the conventions of math rock.
Or at least, I think it fits that definition: "complex, atypical rhythmic structures, stop/start dynamics and angular, dissonant riffs." I actually have no idea what all those fancy music-larnin' words mean, so I'll defer to my commenters.
