The Japanese have built themselves a giant robot to play with!

boy meets gundam
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Economic crisis? What economic crisis? In Japan, they've built a (totally for-reals) life size gundam!! Now, it can't really move (other than it's head), but it looks totally badass during the day, and even more badass at night. If this (as well as the dismal reviews of Transformers 2) are to be believed, Americans still have a ways to go before we catch up to the Japanese in the field of robot badassery.

Signs of Decline: The NYT Homicide Map

How's this for a morale booster? A nationwide depression epidemic + awesome Internet technology = The New York Times Homicide Map. Keep track of all the places in the five boroughs where a murder has been comitted, complete with age and ethnicity of both killer and victim, the murder weapon, and motive. It's like a GPS system, only them dots ain't movin' no more.

Only $50 away from achieving our goal!!

As many of you know, I've been hard at work on a feature-length version of my documentary project, Firewall of Sound, focusing on the independent music industry and its relation to the Internet. In order to help raise funds for the project, I've created a page on Kickstarter.com, asking people to donate toward us completing the film, and as of right now, we are only $50 away from achieving our goal of raising $1,000!!

But, the rule is if we don't reach our goal by July 10, WE WILL GET NOTHING, so we need people to come to the rescue and get us over that mark! IF ONLY TEN PEOPLE DONATE $5 EACH, THAT WILL BE ENOUGH TO MEET OUR GOAL, so as you can see, every little bit helps! Thanks for taking the time out to read this, and I sincerely appreciate all your support.