{"id":217,"date":"2009-11-20T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/11\/20\/yoyodyne\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:01","slug":"yoyodyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/11\/20\/yoyodyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoyodyne"},"content":{"rendered":"

As someone who is a fan of both Thomas Pynchon and Buckaroo Banzai (who have never been photographed together by the way – think about it), I of course am familiar with the Yoyodyne <\/a>family of companies.<\/p>\n

I took the time to look up Yoyodyne on wikipedia<\/a> and discovered several interesting things. For instance, it was frequently referenced on the John Larroquette show<\/a>, which apparently made a number of cryptic Thomas Pynchon references that only wikipedia updaters have ever noticed or cared about.<\/p>\n

But Yoyodyne Industries is now primarily working with making "Brane Power" amulets<\/a> like this one called "El Brujo" (Spanish for "the witchcraft" or "the warlock").
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\nIf you look carefully, it does appear to have what looks like a crystal radio circuit, complete with zenier diode. I don’t recall much about crystal radios dampening beta waves back when they were in more frequent use, but we can assume that people were just more brane-intensive back then anyways. <\/p>\n

I would buy one myself, but I think that $125 plus shipping is too much to pay to find out that my brane-waves are FM not AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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