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I am sure we are all familiar with the band OK Go's past "homemade" video craziness. They just released their newest video for the song "This Too Shall Pass" and it is pretty much the most amazing Rube Goldberg Machine ever created. The only problem is, I have no idea what the lyrics of this song are as I was far too busy watching the action to pay any attention to the actual song.

As an added bonus, Gizmodo has embedded a series of videos showing the behind-the-scenes work that went into making this video.

Rest assured, the words I would use when referring to our record-setting weather here would include significantly more colorful language. After the initial storm that hit last weekend, we were clobbered again earlier this week. Today was actually the first day I've driven my car since last Friday. That's right, a week stuck in my house entirely by myself. Oddly, not as lonely as I would have expected, but that's probably because I've been so preoccupied with work, being as I've had to do it all from home. Anyway, I have so far survived the Big F'ing Snowstorm of early February 2010 with still a month or so of potential snow days to go. As the kittehs say, Do. Not. Want.

I am kind of somewhat documenting the great Doom Storm of early February 2010 over on the Flickr. And I phrase it that way because I have this sneaking suspicion there will be more... *glare*

Seriously, another major storm? I am so done with winter. Actually, I was done with winter around the end of Fall. Make it gone, please.

It is a fact that autocomplete in a search box is a wonderful tool to find the answer to life's most difficult questions. That is why autocompleteme.com is one of the best sites ever created.

I stumbled across this video of the Muppets performing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's genius.

Alright, that was sarcasm, because I'm not sure a live action/CG version of The Smurfs is really called for. Though, maybe if they make it "darker" and more "gritty" then... no, nevermind, it really doesn't need to happen.

Yes? No?! Maybe?!?

As Dollhouse winds down, talk of Joss Whedon's next project seems to be settling on series of motion-comic webisodes based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 series of comics. I have been following this comic series, though delayed as I insist on reading the collections in graphic novel form, and I really do enjoy the series. I usually finish a book in two or three days and I am always left wanting more. While some of the stories don't have the impact I'd like, the overarching arch is fairly classic Buffy-verse material that successfully captures the characters we've grown to love and hate from the TV series.

The real question, though, is whether I'd even be interested in seeing this comic series turned into a series of webisodes. I think that gets a big "Eh." I'd watch it, of course, probably even eagerly, but I'm not convinced I really need this series. The comics are quite satisfying and I'm not sure a web series would bring anything new that would make it superior to the comics.

Of course, we have no idea what will happen with this project or whether it's even real. I think for now I'll just forget all about this and be happily surprised if it ever does end up being "broadcast" on the web.

Unfortunately, physicists are saying that man-made micro black holes are not likely to eat the Earth. Back to the drawing board, I guess...

It looks like Fox is pulling the plug on Joss Whedon's Dollhouse and I can't say this is a surprise to anyone. They should be filling out the rest of the 13 episode season (schedule in the io9 article), which should hopefully give Joss a chance to wrap things up in some semblance of an ending. Yay.

Why am I not excited or sad? Because The Sarah Conner Chronicles really was the better show and we all could tell that Dollhouse wasn't going to make it. Just seems like a bit of a waste.