FedEx vs UPS in a future extrapolation of today’s shrinking consumer market. In space, customers are hard to come by…

Brought to you by commercial production studio, The Mill.

In the “Countries That Shouldn’t Emulate America” category, comes the tale of six of London’s finest metro police. After apprehending a couple suspects who were carrying a large weed shipment, the officers decided to seize the property of the suspects, and give them the old Dick Cheney workover for good measure.

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We here at TMR usually pride ourselves on the ability to wade through the internet’s digital morass of celebrity nonsense, gadget fetishism, and vacuous top-10 lists, to bring you something unique and substantive every day. Today I’m going to have to temporarily surrender.

You see, a certain unnamed former sexpot and pop-star died today. Therefore, there is no other news.

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Passionately following a losing sports franchise is sort of like having a mal-formed congenitally attached twin fetus to your skull. It serves as a constant reminder that you have invested a great deal of emotional energy in something that will never be a source of pride or happiness.

Sure, you can put a scarf on your head. You can change the topic of conversation. But short of dangerous surgery, you can never separate yourself from the fate of this being that nature has declared unfit to thrive.

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Look out, Canadians… Skynet is now online.

The US Border Patrol is preparing to deploy a ‘Predator B’ unmanned drone aircraft along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, presumably to detect drug growing and smuggling operations along the US-Canadian border.

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Though created seven months ago, this piece is a highly topical tutorial on the recent history of Iran, describing how the digital revolution is altering the political landscape there.

This piece started as a snippet from some footage that Storey and I shot of ourselves while playing FIFA. I have no idea why this is what it is now. Sometimes, the editing tools decide for you…

This mashup via “directorial collective,” Crush, is comprised of over 400 intertwined video pieces. The result is a little overwhelming — it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. I found myself drawn to the giant wormhole into nothing on the third tier — and then found a line of treadmill runners to the left. Overall, it’s a strangely addictive mishmash.

Finally willing to be intellectually honest about its product, Pizza Hut is changing its name to “The Hut.”

While the company claims that this is a branding move to keep in touch with the “texting” (read as “illiterate”) generation, it does afford several advantages to the franchise:

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Ever wanted to be depressed by Youtube in five minutes or less? Check out this interview series from the Resident (known in our world as the owner of a highly popular non-Mep Kurt Vonnegut video.)

Of course, none of the attendees can actually verbalize what’s good or useful about Twitter, they just enjoy being around like-minded Twits.