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Gil Weinberg is having trouble with his drummer: he’s trying to get both of Haile’s arms to work at the same time. That would be an unusual problem, except for the fact that Haile is a robot.

He used to break bones. Now former Hollywood stuntman Robert Mc-Donald uses popsicle sticks to break world records.

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Visa Parviainen. Last October, Parviainen, sporting a birdman suit and custom jet boots, dove face first out of a hot air balloon high above Lahti, Finland, and took off into the wild blue yonder.

“You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! Damn you all to hell!” Oh, my mistake. This isn’t a post- apocalyptic world where apes rule, but rather the parking lot behind artist David Adickes’ studio near downtown Houston.

Nathan Arnold of Seattle has discovered that strapping a dummy to a compressed-air jet- pack, launching it more than 100 feet in the air, and then watching it fall to the ground is three times as funny as just throwing a dummy off something really high and watching it fall to the ground.