It's All About the See-Through Guitar...

-J

Analyze

So my father got me into Google Analytics, which tracks visits to your website and tells you an almost endless amount of info about your fan base, for lack of a better term. Audience, if you will.

Much to my surprise, yesterday 12 people from some obscure town in Brazil viewed this blog.

Well, right before I wrote that last sentence, I did a search on the referral and found out that it's a bunch of spam. Awesome. I was gonna give the backwater town of Breauri or wherever a shoutout, but instead I've reported your citizens to the Google spam dept. Bastardos.

-J

No no no no, YEAH....YEAH

This album is incredible! (It just came out on Tuesday) A genre all to itself, Cudi's music is brilliant. Sometimes he sings, sometimes he raps, sometimes he does both. A really good flowing collection, Man on the Moon: The End of Day is the soundtrack to Cudi's dreams at night. Some tracks are labeled Nightmares, others are Themes. If this is hip-hop, then the genre's been saved. And not by all the self-proclaimed "kings" of rap, the gangsters, but by a Cleveland-born skinny jeans-wearing artist.

-J

Flippin Mad

From the BBC, what I consider to be the new source in the world. (The BBC is to an Italian leather driving shoe as Fox is to a steaming pile of dog shit.)

Military robot 'hops' over walls

By Paul Rincon Science and environment reporter, BBC News

The robot is able to leap over fences and walls

Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high.

Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot - which is being developed for the US military - uses its four wheels to get around.

But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.

The robot could boost the capabilities of troops and special forces engaged in urban warfare, say researchers.

The robot is shoebox sized and guided by GPS

The programme is being funded by Darpa, the US military's research arm.

Earlier this year, Sandia National Laboratories awarded the contract to build the next generation of the hopper to Massachusetts-based robotics firm Boston Dynamics.

Researchers at Sandia have tried out the robot on a variety of different surfaces.

The semi-autonomous, GPS-guided gadget could be used for surveillance in urban environments.

Its developers say this could potentially reduce troop casualties.

Testing and delivery of the Precision Urban Hopper is planned for late 2010.

I hope they put some guns on it or something!

-J

Petrucciani

Brilliant song by the late, French jazz pianist, Michel Petrucciani. The original is on Last.fm (complete with robust bass line), but the Japanese band covered it so well on YouTube, I had to give em a play.

-J

Best Celebration EVER

I love the commentator's comment, "If only Chelsea could choreograph their defense like Stoke choreographed their celebration!!!"

-J

Dirty DIRTY tackle

Did the German commentator say "Das war Bull Scheisse" !? Should have.

-J