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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Killing a Miracle of Nature
11-year-old Gavin Dingman was the talk of the hunting community with his impressive takedown of a rare 12-point albino buck, a specimen estimated to be found in only 1 of every 100,000 births.
In further good news, Gavin’s dad says he will hire a taxidermist to take the carcass and create a full body mount: “It’s too rare and too pretty not to spend the extra money and have the whole thing done.” -
Remember
The News Anchor Knows Best
Creative Devices That Make Money (#92541)
What if someone made a pain machine, capable of inflicting unbearable torment from a half mile way? Why then, that someone would have an excellent moneymaker.
See the Silent Guardian by our friends at Raytheon. An extremely useful device for dealing with unruly demonstrators and other problems. Brief video anyone?-
Teach the Children
Or How Will They Know What to Kill?
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Carefree Days of Childhood
Amid the siren call to conformity and consumerism, a thing of worth occasionally emerges from the MTV machine. This time a short and brilliant film about children, labor and the world in which we find ourselves.
The music is Radiohead’s “All I Need.” The project comes from MTV’s Exit campaign against human trafficking & exploitation. -
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.
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Some of the Nonsense was Evil
Kurt Vonnegut on Sea Pirates and the brave history of America from his Breakfast of Champions.
