Well, I have no idea what it’s electronic power is (the usual measure for a monitor), but I do know that it can take a crossbow shot to its face and not even get scratched. In fact, it bent back the arrow.

Click, just click and watch the accompanying video and tell me you’re not petrified.

On my semi-daily meanderings through the world of Jezebel, I found this interesting post on politics of all things. They came across a Canidate Matcher (it’s called the Match-O-Matic - FUN!) on ABC News and subsequently came across Mike Gravel’s campaign video which is, if i do say so myself, stunning (you can find it in the Jezebel post). I took the Match-O-Matic and was told John Edwards is my man followed by Gravel and some Cobb character. Seriously though, Gravel’s campaign video is stellar.

More serious though, a Match-O-Matic? Really? The interesting thing is that I’m not all that disturbed by this. I mean, our political situation is such at the moment that picking names out of a hat would seem to serve us just as well. Most of the candidates say very similar things on the “hot topics” and its all just a bunch of yada yada yada to me. Then again politics has never really been my thing. I don’t mean to say that it doesn’t matter who we put in office (the Bush administration showed this notion to be a fallacy) but more that this campaigns have little to do with how the candidate will operate once in office. When Bush got in office the first time, he ran on a domestic agenda, clearly his presidency will not be remembered by any real domestic initiatives. I’m not saying. I’m just saying.

So I was doing my regular toiling through the day reloading Deadspin about 4 times a minute when they put up a clip of Jimmy Kimmel dissing Joe Theismann a little bit on Monday Night Football. Now as you’re all probably aware, after a YouTube clip is done it brings up a little menu of related clips. On this menu, I found this clip of Kimmel going off on the Gawker editor. I found it a rather odd clip first off because it seems that Jimmy Kimmel is hosting Larry King Live on CNN, and second, because they absolutely shit on Gawker for being slanderous and libelous and alerting people to where celebs are or some such. I was really confused. Don’t these people understand the nature of blogs? It’s all untrue. We’re allowed to say whatever we want here. It’s the mass opinion given a somewhat pointless voice. Sure Gawker should be held more accountable given their large readership and the fact they’re a corporation that has supposedly conquered all media, but in the end it is still in the format of a blog and thus should be held to somewhat bloggish standards.

So once again, this is a blogger blogging about blog’s blogging rights.

UPDATE: I guess today’s the day I learn more about Gawker, but here’s an article in New York Magazine that discusses one journalists experience with being mentioned in Gawker. I should note that I do believe in what I said up above (that blogs like Gawker in a sense have a different code of ethics) but there should also be some decorum (I guess that’s the right word) surrounding the site. I don’t know where the line should drawn and maybe I only will once I get written up somewhere (yeah, a.k.a. never) or get blasted for writing about someone else (once again, this means never).

In the world of eBay and all that type of good auctioning (they claim that winning something in an auction is more fun than just buying it outright, but I’m not so sure), everything is getting put up for the highest bidder, even Robosaurus. But don’t worry if you can’t make it down there, the Speed channel will be televising the event. Maybe you can phone in a bid. I don’t think it’ll be up on eBay, if only because of the astronomical shipping costs.

Seriously. I don’t. I don’t really get this whole unmanned technology thing. I think unmanned subways in New York are possibly the worst idea ever (have you ever ridden a train in rush hour? No machine could properly manage that). Taking the human aspect out of things to me seems to take the fun out. I mean I understand for things like deep sea diving where the pressure would literally crush our skulls. That’s for the sake of exploration and information. But for jobs easily (well, maybe not easily) done by humans, why use a robot? Don’t people still want to fly around the arctic and take photographs? If not, I volunteer myself.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. (Think that cop from 25th Hour)

Attention denizens: the iPhone has been unlocked and can now be used on networks such as T-Mobile and many foreign networks though damn it to hell I still think it doesn’t work on Verizon.

Bastards.

But anyway, the phone has been hacked or to make it seem less dangerous, unlocked. Big news which means one of two things - Apple opens up the iPhone to other networks soon than it was expecting (if it was even expecting to do so) thus kind of fucking AT&T (’cause their network’s garbage anyway) or Apple quickly mounting large scale security revamps to prevent the unlock software from working. Either way, pretty big time.

Now that Apple has basically open up this whole iPhone universe to the general public, a lot of new user created applications, but this one right here is probably what would put me over the edge if I was considering buying an iPhone (despite the fact that all the commenters on Engadget don’t seem to like it).

In an attempt to even our odds against the animal kingdom, African bushmen have been equipped with PDAs that can track animal movement patterns and locate plant life. Wait. What? Yep, it’s true. Discovery has a whole report on it. Doesn’t this sort of take some of the challenge out of the whole thing? Isn’t this giving a bit of an advantage to a side that seemed to already be winning the battle so to speak? They do some bizarre things with technology, I kid you not.

While discussing and praising the merits of new high powered laptops and iPhones and all that, I thought I’d take a moment to point you in the direction of AfriGadget, a blog that traces how people (and sometimes companies) are creating new technologies (sometimes by modifying old - there’s an article about a guy who turned his bike into a knife sharpen) to answer problems and address needs in Africa. Some interesting stuff in there that shows some real creativity about what’s coming next.