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THIS MAKES ME HAPPY

Ivan Mládek, “Jožin z bažin” (YouTube, via Warren Ellis)
Banjo Band Ivana Mládka (Luna Kafé)

PRESIDENTIAL LOOT

An Indian lawmaker, Nirmal Deshpande, gave the US president perhaps the least expensive present of his time in office: The yellow linen scroll with Gandhi’s warnings, with an estimated worth of seven dollars — or one per sin.
They are “politics without principle,” “wealth without work,” “pleasure without conscience,” “knowledge without character,” “commerce without morality,” “science […]

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Here’s hoping the News-Gazette headline writers will lay off the hard boozin’, at least until after work.

ZOMBIE HEAD REMOVAL DEVICE

PAM Individual Lifting Vehicle (DVICE, via Bulldada Newsblog)
Previously ‘varked: everything zombie

YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE EATEN BY A GRUE

Warning: GEEK OVERLOAD

MC Frontalot, “It Is Pitch Dark” (YouTube, via Pathologically Polymathic)

CONTROVERSY!

From the Flickr LOLscience pool.

GODS FAIL TO APPEAR IN COURT

A judge in India has summoned two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman, to help resolve a property dispute.
Judge Sunil Kumar Singh in the eastern state of Jharkhand has issued adverts in newspapers asking the gods to “appear before the court personally”.
The gods have been asked to appear before the court on Tuesday, after the judge […]

FIDDLEBOT

Toyota Partner Robot, “Pomp and Circumstance” (Flash @ Reuters)
Toyota Shows Violin-Playing Robot (AP)

LET’S DO SOME CRIMES

Chambana police blotter:

Mobil Super Pantry, 810 W. Green St., reported theft Tuesday afternoon.
According to a police report, a 20-year-old man described as “goth” entered the business and stole a pack of strawberry-flavored cigars before fleeing.
No arrests had been made at the time of the report.

Wonder if he uses Sinister Strawberry “lip embalm.”

EEL CHRISTMAS TREE, EEL CHRISTMAS TREE

Electric eel used to power Xmas lights (Mainichi Daily News)