The skyrocketing price of gas got you down, huh? Better start praying.

“Someone’s making a lot of money and it’s really, really wrong,” added Twyman, who founded the Prayer at the Pump movement last week to seek help from a higher power to bring down fuel prices, because the powers in Washington haven’t.

The half-dozen activists — Twyman, a former Miss Washington DC, the owner of a small construction company and two volunteers at a local soup kitchen — joined hands, bowed their heads and intoned a heartfelt prayer.

“Lord, come down in a mighty way and strengthen us so that we can bring down these high gas prices,” Twyman said to a chorus of “amens”.

Hey, maybe this is a sign from the good Lord Jesus Buddha Mohammed Siva that he/she wants everyone who’s able to start riding the sh*t out of bicycles.

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Not sure if you guys have seen this, but it’s been making the rounds lately: some anonymous folks have been cleverly defacing American bills and posting the results online.

There are a bunch of good nerd ones in there, but I think my fave so far is The Jean Genie Franklin.

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Annual best-food-chain-ever competitor Dunkin Donuts is giving out free donuts with a hot coffee tomorrow to “celebrate” Tax Day. Believe it.

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While the Japanese continue to push the boundaries of robotics, some guy in Atlanta felt the urge to take matters into his own hands and build a weird little remote-control Robocop out of a BBQ grille and water gun (I’m so happy I’m not making this up) because the city, like every other modern American metropolis, is effed up.

Terrill is chasing out unsavory-looking characters from a street corner that resembles a drug dealer’s dream at night. More than 20 suspicious people were seen huddling in the dark in the front driveway and side parking lot on this night. Some were seen openly making drug deals.

But during the day, it’s where young children frolic on a nearby playground at a the Beacon of Light Daycare Center in downtown Atlanta. It has become a nightmare for day care operator Lydia Meredith.

“This whole square is enveloped with homeless people and drug dealers, defecating, urinating, prostituting — the whole nine yards. And the overflow of that behavior, we get to cleanup every morning,” she says.

Although, as awesome as having a crime-fighting robot is, personally I tend to side with this lady:

Anita Beatty, the director of the shelter, is suspicious of the barbecue-smoker robot. “I just think the whole ‘Robocop’ spraying people is a little freaky. We really need some police protection in this neighborhood. I think it’s confusing the issue. I think the issue is homeless people. They are being confused with the folks who prey on them and sell them drugs,” she says.

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I can’t even begin to describe how absolutely spectacular this is: 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments. Thanks to Photo Basement for performing this public service.

All these kids get an A, especially this guy:

And whoever did this:

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A single work encompassing every living species on earth (mammals, reptiles, fungus, bacteria, etc) has been attempted, but never accomplished. That may change with the advent of the heavily funded Encyclopedia of Life, which is committed to cataloging and describing all of our planet’s living thingies.

The site was launched today, and, if ever completed, will be one of the most important resources ever. The internet ftw…?

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Actually, I admittedly don’t have any tattoos or piercings. 90s alterna-culture cured me of ever wanting either of those, which I guess shows you how much of a contrarian pain in the ass I can be.

Anyway, this tattoo is cool as all hell: a subcutaneous working cell phone powered by your own blood. Now that’s f*&king science, people!!

The basis of the 2×4-inch “Digital Tattoo Interface” is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose and oxygen to electricity. After blood flows in from the artery to the fuel cell, it flows out again through the vein.

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