Check out the video for “Vicarious” the first Tool video to use entirely CGI. Before you get bummed out that there’s no puppets jerking off and meat flowing through pipes or whatever, take a few hits of DMT, check out this video and discover the secrets of the universe.

[Continuing Chico’s Christmas Music coverage, today we bring you a band that I’m not actually in (although I’ve sat in with them at a party.)

This episode we bring you Them Steps, a local Chico hip-hop duo who are in the process of relocating to Portland, OR. Gotta give it up to Ripply Snell for not only being a smooth MC, but a pretty damn decent keyboard player as well. Not too many MCs play their instruments live, so due respects. If you’re in Chico, catch Ripply in action tonight at Gorgeous Armada Presents: Sleigh; Sleigh II AGAIN, live at the Chico Cabaret. I’ll also be there, in gold boxers, rocking an Explorer.

let it out…

With the (not so sudden) surge in popularity among social networking sites (i.e. myspace, facebook), came a sense of insincerity among “friends.”

Now, you can express your hatred a la applications such as enemybook, or sites like hatebook and snubster!

These sites are perfect stomping grounds for misanthropes, curmudgeons and “anyone who happens to have a serious distaste for a person or persons.”

Facebook currently boasts roughly 59 million users, while snubster has about 16,000 users worldwide.

Burger and Fries is not a very happy cat. Don’t worry though, for once this video does not involved any kind of animal getting its throat cut or getting skinned alive or anything. Its just a cat thats hella bummed on life. As opposed to the below cat, who seems pretty pumped about life, even after getting its ears pruned off. Maybe its just glad that its a cat in Japan, as opposed to a dolphin. We know what those fuckers do to dolphins.

Paging Philip K. Dick:

In August 2007, software giant Microsoft filed a patent application for a system that would allow it to access thoughts. The patent describes pattern-recognition techniques that can be applied to electroencephalograph (EEG) signals – a measure of electrical activity in the brain – to determine what cognitive state the subject is in.

And you thought that Zune ad we used to have on this blog was annoying…wait until those fuckers can get in your MIND, brah! It’ll be like that shitty Tom Cruise movie a few years ago, Minority Report, where the billboards talked to you and knew your name and all that. Maybe we’ll all get lucky and Apple will figure it out first. At least then shit will be tasteful. A gentle mindfuck, if you will.

So besides being completely made of fail when it comes to life, the Olsen Twins are also personally responsible for the deaths of all sorts of really super cute looking dogs and rabbits and other furry creatures. Of course, our friends at Peta are there to keep us all posted, with an entire area of their web site called Meet the Trollsen Twins, from which the above video was taken. WARNING: If you’re an overly-sensitive old lady this video may offend you as it shows actual real things that happen in the world.