Uncanny Valley
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RIP hitchBOT
In loving memory of the
Hitchhiking Robot.
It is dead. It remains dead.
“My love for humans will never fade.” (hitchBOT)
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The Glory of Technology
Do you really need a $40,000 85-inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED TV?
Damn right you do. Way more than, say, your second daughter. Happy comments on Amazon say it all. -
Conformity Tip #112
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Inside the Shoebox
Haunting animation of one soldier’s story.
Colby Buzzell is the soldier. The story is from his book My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Artwork by Christopher Koelle.
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Remember
The Home Appliance is Your Friend.
Gay Boy
Let’s conduct an experiment. You and a million other young men are playing Halo 3, a popular first-person shooter video game. Only you have chosen to use “xxxGayBoyxxx” as your gamer tag. What could possibly be the response?
Another admirable investigation into primate behavior in America.
That Which is Backwards
Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaugherhouse Five considers Tralfamadorians, time travel and the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, Germany, which killed tens of thousands of civilians. Vonnegut was there as a POW. He saw the aftermath of the bombing, an episode that might be said to have altered his comic perspective. Hear him read an excerpt from the book below.
Fashion in the Modern World
Everyone knows how hard it is to stay stylish when you put on your bullet-proof armor. Thank God then for the genius of Miguel Cabballero whose expanding line of protective fashion (all based in Bogota, Columbia, naturally) has really made our lives more splendiferous.
Now if there was just a stylish way to accessorize our sawed off shotgun!
