During my last trip to the motherland to secure precious Coney I-Land coneys and frozen custard, I happened upon "Young Blood" by The Naked and Famous.

Look at 'em. You can trust these guys and gal to rock you.

Being that Tulsa was in a hundred year heat wave, my brain had partially melted and I cannot now remember if I heard this song on commercial (i.e. Clear Channel or Shamrock) radio, or if it was on the Risk! podcast. Either way, I slammed the brakes on the rented Nissan in the middle of Peoria and proceeded to hunt for signs of nearby wi-fi. A clump of fixed-speed bikes. The hawk-like ornamentation on a shirtless dude's back. Truckers' hats in pristine condition atop expensively mismanaged coifs, followed by piercings and bushy beard. The pack of hispters, when not in motion - such as performing a Critical Mass bike ride, or ironically playing Jenga - often rest near available streams of wi-fi where they can use the hot-spot to digest freegan-foraged nutrients and update Foursquare.

Having found such a hipster pride, I dipped my iPhone into the stream and ponied up the $.99 for song. And I haven't looked back since. Really. It's weird. Can you tell me if there's anything back there? 

But personally, I've been unperturbed by most of the changes (I could do without the mandatory prostate exam to create an event, but whatever). The side bar scroller especially makes a lot of people antsy. 

But the side bar is great. A few minutes watching your friends comment on their friends' pics will introduce you to a ton of hot girls or boys you can perv on.

Or occasionally, help you find some new music.

And such is today's case.

Meet Gotye and Kimbra. They're antipodal, they're young, hot, and they want your love.http://kimbramusic.com/

Gotye's official site is here.

 Kimbra's official site is here.

Let's ask lepers, paraplegics, the homeless, Somalis surviving on 900 calories a day if the tragic events that left them in their current situation made them stronger. This one is demonstrably false, and more often than not, meant to convince the sayer. Or it's a cheap line to console someone whose boyfriend or girlfriend just jumped them. Probably not something you'd say to a soldier who'd lost three friends and two limbs on an IED outside Helmand province. 

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Um, no. If you shoot for the moon and miss, one of three things will happen: 

1) If your angle of trajectory and momentum are high enough, you'll break Earth orbit and get caught up in some solar orbit, eventually running out of oxygen, water, or nutrients; 

2) If you have better control of your craft, you might be able to get into a decent return trajectory and make it back to the blue marble; or 

3) You get pulled in by Earth's gravity and burn up on re-entry.

This is pretty ridiculous, but there's at least a reason for it. The word 'prove' has shifted meaning over the years, such that a word that once meant 'to test' now means 'to show something is true'. So we should say "It's the exception that tests the rule," which makes way more sense. It's not so much the saying that's bad, it's the people saying it. 

You get a lot more with shit than either.

There's a reason we go in and out of a building through a door. Windows are smaller and less convenient and probably more dangerous for egress. Gee, thanks God. I'm sure you had a great reason for laying me off from my job and taking away my insurance while my son has leukemia; a part-time job at Wal-mart is really generous of you to offer. 

No. Everything that happens has a cause, yes. Looking for a hidden meaning is a fallacy of logic. Huh, my flight got canceled because of a hurricane. There must be some reason for that.

(Winged_eel suggested the layout for this graphic.)

Here I am going in Laos at the Gibbon experience. The first video is me entering the treehouse. Up next is Mike D. entering the treehouse via the dinning room window. Then, we have a tour of the tree house given by Mike D. After that is video from another zipline looking at our treehouse. The final two videos are us leaving the jungle, riding on top of the Land Rover.