Nude by Radiohead:

Sorry. I love the song, along with pretty much anything Radiohead does, but I couldn't bring myself to sit through this entire video.

If you want to see Radiohead moving in slow motion, I recommend watching the infinitely better Street Spirit video, directed by Jonathan Glazer:

LEGO.com Indiana Jones Games

It's been awhile since I've gotten to post a Flash game since most of them are blocked at work. This is a really fun but tricky game that promotes the new Indiana Jones line of Legos as well as the upcoming game. Instead of controlling Indy you have to click on obstacles as well as gather treasure with your mouse. Timing is crucial.

It's been awhile since I've done this but Kyle did it and I have to copy everything he does.

1. Sia - Sunday
2. Remy Zero - Save Me
3. Annie Lennox - The Saddest Song I've Got
4. Devo - What I Must Do
5. Mary Beth Maziarz - Daydream Believer
6. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie Or Maybe (Demo)
7. Ryan Adams - Twenty Nine
8. Beastie Boys - 3 The Hard Way
9. The Smashing Pumpkins - Age of Innocence
10. Fluffy - My Lord, What a Morning

Now that's a pretty random Random Ten.

Yes, he wants everyone to take the time to hug your chothers. I wasn't sure what this meant at first either. But then he showed my wife and me a couple of his toys, whose arms were wrapped around each other. "They're hugging their chuthers," he informed us. Aha. We tried to correct him. "No, you mean that they are hugging each other." But he continues to talk about how he likes to hug our chuthers, and he and his sister hug their chuthers, and we should hug his chuthers.

A good reminder with all of the insanity in the world. Go hug your chuthers.

Yes, this poll is similar to the previous poll but it's a tradition and I'd like to stick with it. You guys voted No Country For Old Men as the best movie of 2007, which won with a commanding lead over Superbad and Juno. Now it's time to make your Best Picture pick. I'm still torn on my choice but maybe the nominee marathon on the 23rd will help me finalize my decision.

Yesterday around 3:30, I heard on the radio that police activity was reported at Northern Illinois University. NIU's website reported a possible gunman. At 3:55, I saw the update online that a shooting was confirmed. As an NIU graduate, the confirmation floored me even moreso than the other school shootings. I called my wife to see if anyone we know goes there, and then e-mailed one of my old professors. He responded soon after, letting me know he and his wife, also a professor, were safely at home. He was teaching in the next building when it happened.

The count is up to 6 dead, including the man who attacked the university. Everyday something in the news makes me ask "What is wrong with us?"

This tragedy hits close to home because I am a graduate of the university, and because we live only 20 or so miles from the main campus. I walked past that building nearly every day for 4 years. Seeing the doors and windows shot out, footage of students and police, hearing the accounts on the radio, the reality that I personally know some people who lived through this...it is too much for me to comprehend and to find any words to articulate how it is affecting me.

After Columbine, I would just start crying thinking about those kids...KIDS!...who had to dive over tables, around doorways, to avoid a bullet. When I saw Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine," I couldn't sleep, and I kept replaying in my head the video from inside the school on that horrific day. I had never seen it until that film, and I found it profoundly disturbing.

I feel the same way now. I think about the young people in that classroom, and I cannot believe that they had to make the choice to jump, dive, crawl, whatever it took to get away from someone who wanted to destroy lives. I cannot believe that 6 of them are dead.

Christopher O'Riley - Karma Police
Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow
Ben Folds Five - Brick
U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
Ani DiFranco - Napoleon
The Flaming Lips - Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Let's Live It Up
Sufjan Stevens - Dumb I Sound
UNKLE - The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2)
David Bowie - Battle For Britain (The Letter)