Check out our new contest on our Sweeps page: In association with MCPR Music, Synthesis is are giving away copies of Larry McDonald’s new album, and One Grand Prize Winner gets an autographed copy of Drumquestra PLUS an iPod Nano. Bada ding-ding-ding-ding-Woah!

…and all they have on YouTube are music files with pictures because NBC takes sharing violations seriously…ugh.

Yesterday some friends and I were talking and they referenced “Ras Trent,” and since I don’t watch much TV (except what’s on Hulu.com) I had no idea what they were talking about. After failing to find it on YouTube and mentioning that they didn’t know of a real iPhone app to watch Hulu, I decided to look it up today. And instead of just watching it and (hopefully) laughing, I decided to share the video on this blog (courtesy of Hulu.)

I am now in the loop. And it turns out I know 20 of this guy.

Chico State’s Mechatronics Department is cranking out some pretty wild shit. Here are a couple of videos to check out.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkKqeAk4uo&feature=channel_page

The MRCR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5H5Dz-PAPs&feature=channel

Chico State’s Mechatronics Department is cranking out some pretty wild shit. Check out these videos of some of their robots which are currently in heavy use in Iraq and other highly classified war theaters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkKqeAk4uo&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5H5Dz-PAPs&feature=channel

NASA’s Spirit rover has captured a photograph of what some are claiming is an alien skull on Mars. Someone page Richard Hoagland:

An oddly shaped space boulder appears to show eye sockets and a nose leading to speculation it might be a Martian skull.

Internet forums are full of chatter about the picture, taken by a panoramic NASA camera known as Spirit.

One alien-spotter speculated: “The skull is 15 cm with binocular eyes 5 cm apart. The cranial capacity is approximately 1400 cc.

“There appears to be a narrow pointed small mouth, so this creature most likely is a carnivore.”

Another joked: “The coronal ridge shows ample structure to support the musculature of antennae, although none are visible in this view.

“The nose area is broad and blunted as you would expect to see in a cold and windy landscape. Is he decapitated or is he buried up to his neck?”

When I saw the headline “Horse Stem Cell Technique to Be Used in Humans” I was really hoping for some crazy ass shit involving horse cells being injected into humans to make them stronger, faster, better (perhaps even hung, like a horse). However, the reality is far less sensational:

A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons.

Privately owned British biotech firm MedCell Bioscience Ltd said on Wednesday it would start clinical tests within 12 months and planned to run a larger confirmatory study at several European hospitals in 2011. Patients will receive injections containing millions of their own stem cells, which have been extracted and multiplied up in a laboratory, and can regenerate new tissue to repair damaged regions.

More than 1,500 race horses have been treated using the same process and follow-up data suggests a 50 percent reduction in re-injury over a three year period, compared with conventional treatment.

*Extra credit for anyone who got the Kool Keith reference.