Nine Inch Nails added some dates to their Lights in the Sky tour last week. When I saw this I did a cursory search for any Nebraska dates, naturally there weren’t any so I went about day. I completely missed that they scheduled a show over in Omaha’s backyard, Council Bluffs. The show will be at the Mid-America Center on Wednesday, November 26—the day before Thanksgiving. It doesn’t look like there’s any ticket information available at this time, but tickets for their other midwestern dates run in the $30-$60 range so I would assume this show is about the same.
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Here’s a little something that everyone should keep in mind while you sift through your music. Deerhunter is not the same as Deerhoof. Deerhunter is an indie rock band that sounds like any other sad-bastard post-emo band out there, but has somehow become wildly popular with the skinny jeans crowd. Deerhoof, on the other hand is quirky trio, that sound a bit strange in a poppy sort of way, and features a female vocalist—Satomi Matsuzaki. Deerhoof is also playing at The Slowdown on Monday October 13.

Now, that’s one to grow on.

Snarky venom-filled bloggers around the world have been waiting patiently for the W3C to approve the <sarcasm> tag for a long time. Since it has yet to—and likely will never—happen, it’s up to us to do it ourselves. So, today I took two minutes and created my very own sarcasm CSS rule that I can slap onto any bit of text that needs to seethe. Since I’m such a generous guy I thought I’d share this bit of code with you.


.sarcasm{
font-family: "Comic Sans MS", "Comic Sans", fantasy;
font-style: italic;
}


• It’s time to point your telescope away from your neighbor’s bedroom and turn it up towards the sky. There will be a partial lunar eclipse this Saturday evening—8.16.08. via
• In natural science news, it seems that Octopuses may be less eight-legged than we originally thought. It’s more like they have two back legs, two front arms and the other four appendages kind of help out in either direction depending on the situation. Also, scientists are noticing that individual Octopuses have their own distinct personality. Which begs the question, is it ethical to eat something that has a favorite color? via

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. The Legend of Neil is a Zelda spoof on Atom.com, where a slacker finds himself stuck in the world of Hyrule after blacking out in the midst of debasing himself. This is Episode 2: First Blood, for more fun with Neil check out episodes 1 and 3.

The moral here kids is if you’re gonna do that sort of thing, make sure you have a spotter.

That’s right, Trent Reznor may finally get to realize his film aspirations. Trent has recently pitched the idea of turning his 2007 concept album Year Zero into a two season maxi-series for HBO, and from his point of view everything went well.

I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we’re trying to get them to do a two-year limited series. I prefer that over a film. We would have a second ARG tying into the second album and ties into the series and they all happen together with a budget needed to pull that all off. There would be a tour down the road. The record completes the story, the ending that no one knows. I know what happens. I knew when I started it. And it’s not what people think.

According to a recent study, the vast majority of Americans are not savvy enough to make informed decisions on matters involving science. Considering that it is an election year, this could have a huge impact on who the next president is. Not that it didn’t four years ago, and eight years before that. The real problem lies in the fact that School House Rock was right, knowledge is power, and as the populace becomes less knowledgeable it becomes easier for us to be manipulated by the ones in power. A democratic society doesn’t mean much when the electorate bases their decision on fear and superstition rather than what is actually best for the country and it’s future.

Below you will find The Abridged Geek Hierarchy by Lore Sjöberg.

I got a chuckle out of this so I thought I’d share. It reminds me of my not too distant days over at Firespring, roasting/freezing—depending on the season—up in the “Creative Loft,” and spending larger than necessary chunks of our day discussing all manner of geekery while Aaron—whom I suspect might be a closet geek—groaned in the corner.

Follow the bunny trail for the unabridged version of the chart.

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