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If we’re to take the title of Kevin Forbes’s Simulated Comic Product at its word, we can only conclude conclude that, on a day-to-day basis, it is at least as tasty as the real thing.

His recent Easter-themed comic, Eggs, is in a league of its own, though. In three short panels it tells the story of two quick-thinking children who narrowly thwart the escape of a genetic freak. Or of two ruthless brats who unhesitatingly betray a gentle victim of science back to his creator-tormentors. Take your pick. Forbes doesn’t shove an interpretation down your throat, and that’s what elevates this particular strip to the level of genius.

God, I love Canada. Because it recognizes the essential rightness of producing things like this.

Chatty cow-orkers: $120,000+ per unit, per year.

Bose Companion 2 desktop speakers: $100.

Brown noise that makes you feel like you’re sitting next to a waterfall instead of trapped in cubicle hell: Priceless.

Not to be outdone by a bunch of mere snakes, the folks at Boston Dynamics have built a four-legged walking robot called the BigDog. When it’s simply making its way over uneven terrain, it’s impressive. When it’s scrambling to recover its balance — after a receiving hard shove to its midsection, or slipping on an icy patch — it’s positively spooky. The damn thing moves like a living animal. I find my heart going out to it as it would to any creature in distress, despite the fact that I know full well it’s just a machine.

The Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch helps keep it all in perspective.

Discovering, after making the purchase of both a new front brake and brake cable, but refraining from the purchase of any brake-cable sleeving because you think you’ve still got some at home, that you have exactly as much as the installation requires.

Watching these guys climb their way up the outside and inside of pipes small and large, then shimmy into a small crevice for good measure, makes you think that this is pretty much exactly what the maintenance robots of the future will look like.