T-rex Arms

Welcome to “This Week in Links,” T-rex Arms’s compendium of things you should read, see, hear, and infuse into your soul. If you don’t, you’re practically admitting you like to barbecue puppies.

• If you live on the upper floor of an apartment building you might have imagined what it’d be like if the building fell down. You don’t probably didn’t, however, think about what it’d be like if  the building fell over. In one piece. As crazy as that image is, how crazy is it to live in the identical buildings next door.

• Mixed martial arts and its United States league, the UFC, is trying style itself as a legitimate sport, not the stepchild of the WEE. This video seems to show that they still have a little ways to go. The video also raises a number of questions: Who is the guy pretending to be a dog? Is he an enemy or a friend? Is he the fighter’s bitch?

• Turns out that chaos drives our brain. This has some interesting implications. This likely means that Wall Street is never going to be perfectly predictable since much of the Dow Jones movement is based on human psychology. It also explains why we can’t remember anything except random commercial jingles and the name of the guy who played Cosmo in The Fugitive.

• T-rex Arms admits that our love of money colors our feelings about the old American greenback. We love how it smells fresh out of the ATM, how it feels like worn cloth after as ages, and the ridiculous pea soup green color. Thanks to American banks and the debacle they’ve wrought on the world’s economy, America and its money may need to rebrand. Thankfully, some designers are up to the challenge. We have to admit, some of these submissions are pretty cool. Of course, the government would probably screw it up along the lines of clear Pepsi rebrand.

• As mega Star Wars fans and wookie admirers, we wish we had thought of this first.  Genius.

• T-rex Arms does not condone being evil. Unless, of course, being evil is funny.

• If you need any further proof that the bank’s own the financial world, it’s gone mad, and we just live in it, it turns out that a big bank suing itself to make money (or technically, lose less money).

• This kid is awesome. If he were our kid, we’d secretly be proud as we beat his little ass silly.

• This picture is just plane crazy.

• Men are competitive creatures. We can make anything a competition and spend hours arguing about the rules. For example, we could turn pea shooting into a competitive sport and spend hours devising the perfect pea shooting device. Wait, turns out we have.  And, “No,” there are no women professional pea shooters.

• Food is a social experience. Apparently, food can also be a bizarre, freaky ass, horrifying experience. Eating out of a toilet sounds like a Kenny v. Spenny humiliation.

• Finally, the SETI project has been running since 1999. Some day, we may find alien communications. But have you ever wondered what aliens think of us? Turns out it might depend on where they are in the universe .