Art Guitars is making real guitars for Guitar Hero. Some of them are very cool looking. I couldn't find a price on the site, but they require a $50 deposit to pre-order.

Check out the ridiculous speed he's got going with his left hand at about the 2:54 mark. That doesn't even look human.

NBC is planning a spin-off of The Office. Luckily, they are going to do it without yanking the existing characters out of the show, but lets hope this doesn't become like CSI and Law & Order with different versions of the same show on every other night.

Metal Kult has a series of videos with Matt Pike from High On Fire showing how to play a bunch of riffs from their songs. Don't much care for the finished product of the albums (Death Is This Communion is the latest), but his guitar playing by itself sounds great. He's got a very different style than anybody I've seen - lots of slides and power chords, but he ends up with a very fat sound (the 9-string First Act tuned down 2 steps doesn't hurt).

What happens when a 7.5 inch 'Great Swallower' fish swallows a 34 inch Mackerel? One funky picture.

With the new Metallica album due out in February, Lars talks a bit about what it'll be like.

Metallica and short songs just don't go that well together. But whereas St. Anger was an exercise in over-pummelling the listener, these new songs echo some of our stuff from the 80s - long, epic journeys through different musical landscapes, heavier, but a lot more melodic."

I had no idea that the 1st electric guitar originated in Wichita, KS.

"It's really not well known," said Eric Cale, director of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum. "It's something we've been researching for several years. But this is panning out to be a solid, documented thing."

The museum plans to showcase the guitar, a 1932 Ro-Pat-In Electro Spanish Guitar, in an exhibit opening Oct. 27th. The exhibit is a prelude to a larger exhibit planned for next spring called "Wichita -- Cradle of the Electric Guitar," Cale said.

The person who debuted the guitar was Wichita club and band leader Gage Brewer. During the first part of the 20th century, Brewer traveled the nation as a radio and vaudeville performer.

The guitar was built by George Beauchamp, founder of the National Resophonic Guitar Co. of Los Angeles and developer of Rickenbacker Electric Instruments, the first electric guitar company. Brewer and Beauchamp became friends.

Part of defeating any enemy is making them look silly.

This trailer for The Deaths of Ian Stone makes it seem like a potentially good horror movie.

A 14-year-old girl got expelled from school for having a butter knife in her backpack. How reasonable.

She ran out of the house to meet the bus while making a sandwich, when she realized she had the knife. She put it in her bookbag, then she put it in her locker at Goose Creek High school. She forgot it was there until a few weeks later when the knife fell out of her overstuffed locker.

Exodus has put their entire new album, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A on their MySpace page. The album hits stores Oct 23rd.

Amazon: The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A

The concrete that was placed over the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is breaking down and they are planning to put a big steel structure over the top of it to keep the radiation contained.

Is a mandatory mental health evaluation the appropriate thing for a University to order when they disagree with a student's political thoughts? Its happening.

A guy in Mexico got a little bit too involved with the storyline of his new horror novel. Police raided his house and found his girlfriends torso in his closet and body parts laying around the house.

UPDATE: Max Barry, one of my favorite authors, is all over this story, below is a taste of his take.

You let horror novelists start cutting up hookers, and the next thing you know Tom Clancy is commandeering nuclear submarines off the coast of Florida. Or, I guess, appointing ghost writers to do that for him.

But there's something in this tale to make writers everywhere feel a little better about themselves, because no matter how bad your own work is, at least you wrote it without butchering anybody.

Not exactly mother of the year material.

Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth Meeting was charged with six criminal counts in connection with buying her son firearms and bomb-making equipment, including a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic rifle.

The kid is 14, hasn't been enrolled in school for more than a year and a half and was arrested for plotting a Columbine-style attack on a school.

Big shock that a professor would claim that radical Christians are more a danger to the US than radical Muslims right now.

I'd suggest that the Christo-Fascists have done far more damage to our country than any Islamo-Fascist - after all, the Islamic hordes haven't been responsible for stripping away our civil liberties, nor did they force us to spend trillions on a fool's war, nor did they turn Jesus into Mammon, nor did they replace education and science with ignorance and piety.

Nah, they just pray for your death everyday, and plot and plan how to make it come about. When the 'Christo-Fascists' start talking about killing everyone who doesn't submit to their will, then you can come talk to me.

I had no idea that New Zealanders didn't like Americans. I suppose living in such close proximity to Mordor will have that kind of insanity effect on people.

Its good to see that the music industry hasn't lost its creativity. Its just a shame that they choose to use it to find new and odd reasons to sue people.

... claimed that Kwik-Fit mechanics routinely use personal radios while working at service centres across the UK and that music, protected by copyright, could be heard by colleagues and customers.

It is maintained that amounts to the "playing" or "performance" of the music in public and renders the firm guilty of infringing copyright.

Yep, not only does the music industry think that ripping a CD you already own is against the law, so is listening to your radio where other people might hear it.

So the DNC is now saying that they can't return a bunch of dirty money donated to them from people convicted in a kick-back scheme. The reason - they have a policy not to give back money a previous DNC chairman approved.

Got that? A previous chair approved the money, wrongly as it turned out, but the DNC doesn't believe in doing whats right given the facts they know today. What a convenient policy.

Sony BMG says that making a back-up copy of a music CD you own is stealing.

Kim Jong Il says that he's an internet expert. Maybe we should turn over the administration of the internet to him and Al Gore.

The trailer for Sweeney Todd is out. It looks a bit more weird than I expected with some funky film coloring and Johnny Depp singing to people on the street. Oh well, thats Tim Burton for you.

This french fry coated hot dog looks awesome. Actually all of that street food-on-a-stick stuff pictured further down the page looks good right now.

Maybe I shouldn't write about food when I'm hungry.

A list of the Top 50 Dystopian Movies of all time. The order of the films could use some work (1984 needs to be in the top 10, and Serenity is way too highly rated as examples), but its still a good list.

The Cincinnati Bengals are trying to figure out what to do with pigeons who are pooping on people in the stadium. I don't know why the fans are complaining, they should be used to it after getting shit on by Bengals management for years with all the bad teams they've fielded.