Robots and Supermen among us...

...and other wacky tech news this week of June 22nd - 26th.

• News of the popstar's sudden death spread the world over like lightning -- and almost took the earth's axis with it. [Canada.com]
• The dreamiest incarnation of Superman made a return this week, when we started seeing ads for Microsoft's Internet Explorer featuring none of than Dean Cain? [Switched]
• Social site Mashable launches the Twitter Guide Book, which gives you every possible bit of information you'd need for starting, understanding or hanging tough on Twitter. [Mashable]
• Talk about being ahead of the curve... one blog has compiled a wishlist of apps that have yet to be invented. The suggestions start at searching people and faces in your immediate vicinity to letting your smartphone FIND your keys or car for you. Wow. [ReadWriteWeb]
• AdFreak reports on robot spottings worldwide lending promotional support to the new Transformers movie. Yes, I'm serious. Robots. Hopping on motorcycles and stuff. [AdFreak]

This week's photo credit: tipoyock/Flickr

Whitney Sides Mitchell is an intern social media planner for Luckie & Company, founder of the local-music blog BHAM.FM and a music blogger for AL.com. Her Social Pathology Report appears here each Friday.