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Here's a few interesting links I've picked up over the past few days. TIme for a link-dump. :P

Haile is a musical robot that listens to music and can join in. There's a video of it here.

I have a half-bag of Fritos here, and I can't remember where it came from. Was it from the Condoversary? Regardless, I was reminded of King of the Hill's specialty of Frito Pie. Man, it's simple. There's even a Snack-ish size recipe for it, too... and that one is pretty funny. Just eat it right out of the bag! :P

Music fans will probably know of this website, but I was unaware of it until today. Pandora is part of the Music Genome Project, an analysis of music which can recommend other artists based on your musical tastes. I put in Weird Al Yankovic and Evanescence and it returned Flyleaf, of which I recently discovered. It's very fluid and eerily good at identifying people's tastes.

Speaking of, I never mentioned a song on Weird Al's latest album - Close But No Cigar is definitely a Cake clone, right down to the horns, the "aw yeah"s and the strange clackerbox sound that I have no idea what it's called.

Also, one more: A few 3D renders include a few Optical Illusions near the bottom of the page which, apparently, can be made in realspace. But it's a trick of the eyes, still. ;)

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I've been told that the Blue Man Group will be closing up shop in Toronto in early January.

They said that they had hoped to stay open as long as their other locales (10+ years), but due to low ticket sales, the boycott by the Actor's Union, and I guess lack of interest (do many theatre productions stay open for longer than 1-2 years in Toronto?) they're going to be finishing up soon.

*sigh* It was a good run while it lasted.

Christine suggested that I do Halloween as a Blue Man - I figure I'll go downtown dressed up that day and maybe just make a quick appearance to show my thanks and support. :P