» Lasers: Radiohead has released their music video for the song "House of Cards," which was shot without the use of cameras. The video (linked here and included below) does include Yorke's visage, however, thanks to the use of motion-capture technology. The technology doesn't use lenses, "just lasers" to pick up information about its subject. A making-of video is online as well.

» Motherlasers: Some Russian festival-goers have become nearly 80 percent blind because of lasers at the show. The lasers used were originally going to shoot into the sky, but bad weather forced organizers to use a tent, which ended up bouncing the lasers back into fans' eyes.

» One of the two guitars Jimi Hendrix burned on stage is set to go to auction on September 4th. The guitar is not the one he burned at Monterey Pop, the one which is pictured in the famous picture. The guitar is the one he burned before that, at a show at London's Finsbury Astoria. More: Jimi Hendrix's likeness and his tunes will be headed to a custom-branded "Guitar Hero" release.

» The Rest, in short: Rage Against the Machine on G.W. Bush at T in the Park; Mariah Carey puts her single "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time" up for a fan-remix challenge; Snoop Dogg signs onto Johnny Cash remix record; Condo-builders near the Capitol building need to make sure they don't ruin the acoustics; Rush return to TV after 30 years, on Colbert; Dolly Parton gets a Broadway musical in 2009; "But those are just Playboy covers to the bible inside"; School of Rock 2 is on its way; Village People po-fuzz-man has sucessful vocal-chord surgery; Loud jams may lead to louder vomitting; The L.A. Times can't pay its music reviewer; FCC doesn't get to charge CBS for showing Janet's boob; Kanye to interview Iraq veterans.

» Obits, in short: Jo Stafford, 90.