http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Itchy Robot. en-us hallie@itchyrobot.com 2006-07-28T16:05:58-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/music/index.php I still care that the White Stripes are going to be on the Simpsons this fall. Over exposure, shmover exposure, I still think they're super awesome. Bonus below; the Raconteurs new video, set at a school for suspiciously good looking, deaf, teenaged girls. 1400@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Music 2006-07-28T16:05:58-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/humor/index.php File under "Vitriolic Correspondence" 1399@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Humor 2006-07-14T07:09:11-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/culture/index.php What kind of genius are you? 1398@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Culture 2006-07-12T09:50:23-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/humor/index.php Not Lincoln, but still. 1397@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Humor 2006-06-29T09:05:47-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/lincoln/index.php In my previous Lincoln-centric post, not sure how I missed this one. 1396@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Lincoln 2006-06-28T18:27:46-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/innovation/index.php Spore from Will Wright of Sims fame is going to be the most amazing video game ever! You evolve a species from a single celled organism all the way through interstellar travel! 1395@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Innovation 2006-06-27T15:57:35-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/lincoln/index.php I'm thinkin' Lincoln! 1394@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Lincoln 2006-06-27T10:42:41-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/innovation/index.php Much of the hoopla over creativity is a crock. Why? Because we are already up to our eyeballs in it. Maybe creativity isn't as awesome as we think. 1393@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Innovation 2006-06-26T15:27:16-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/innovation/index.php Science: These data support the hypothesis that there is an ingredient in coffee that protects against cirrhosis, especially alcoholic cirrhosis. 1392@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Innovation 2006-06-12T14:47:04-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/people/index.php Not what I expected, but... yeah, it was: graphing the number of individuals who have lost all their natural teeth, by state. It's practically a chart of stereotype. 1391@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ People 2006-06-07T13:34:51-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/people/index.php Science says adversity in your life tends to make you gullible more often than it makes you a hard-nosed cynic. 1390@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ People 2006-05-31T13:32:07-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/robots/index.php The history of Honda's Humanoid Robot program. 1389@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Robots 2006-05-31T10:38:21-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/carnegie_mellon/index.php You are extremely bad both at judging how happy that thing with make you, and how long the happiness you do get will last. 1386@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Carnegie Mellon 2006-05-05T13:09:35-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/humor/index.php SMF reminds me of a McSweeney's list of methods other than song by which one can be killed softly. 1385@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Humor 2006-05-05T13:07:01-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/war/index.php Q: Cuter way to die? 1. Mushed by the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man 2. Shot through the heart with a teddy bear gun... Your choice. 1384@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ War 2006-05-04T15:49:42-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/humor/index.php Ze Frank's The Show, thinking so you don't have to (this is the best thing I've seen in a long time). 1383@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Humor 2006-04-25T22:06:02-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/culture/index.php Do you have Hipsters? 1382@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Culture 2006-04-21T14:57:18-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/people/index.php These photographs of dwarves are fascinating and poignant. 1381@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ People 2006-04-14T06:57:02-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/people/index.php A presentation by Michael Crichton about how insanely bad humans are at managing complex systems, and therefore dealing with reality. 1380@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ People 2006-04-13T10:45:39-08:00 http://www.itchyrobot.com/archive/places/index.php In India, they don't buy IKEA, they make it themselves: We take copying of our products seriously, but we are happy that the Indian people like IKEA design. 1379@http://www.itchyrobot.com/ Places 2006-04-13T06:15:56-08:00