Earlier today, I made a "café" post out of a photograph of a tablescape that included my small toy robot, and betamax3000 used it...
"Discipline comes to mind. But it sounds like there is just no emotion. People that know me, I don’t think they would say that. I certa...
... shake 2 red fists and get on with whatever conversation you wanted to have. AND: Stock up on the official chewing gum of the Althouse b...
Really? Everyone from President Obama to Bill Nye to scientists involved with the project lauded Monday's achievement, the most expensiv...
I'm getting these via Paul Constant at Slog, who says this about the Obama ad: Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I...
State Street, today: ME (reading aloud, to my companion): Walker is not above the law and will go to prison. CHALKING MAN (to me): It's ...
"... but Romney doesn't even seem able to defend himself." Can Mitt educate us? This seems related to my earlier post today , ...
"... as their counterparts in traditional, instructor-centric versions of the courses. This largely held true regardless of the race, g...
I wrote in September 2008 (before I'd met Meade in person) in the comments to a post based on the NYT headline "Obama to Dispatch ...
... there's a place for you.
(Via Metafilter .)
"Next up: housefly-sized surveillance craft, shape-changing 'chemical robots,' and tracking agents sprayed from the sky." ...
"But you said earlier that you were a robot."
Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo . Is it sad? I mean... I'm not asking if the blob itself is sad. But is it sad that there is...
"People aged 65 and older are a key pillar of the agricultural work force, accounting for about 60 percent of the agricultural populati...
Said Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. Recharge his batteries? Hmmmm.
A reader sends this new example of what I like to call Drudge dy: (The link for the "world's creepiest robot" went here .)
Ed Morrissey calls it "creepy" because it's not a "friendly invitation." They're trying to get people to pay up...
The Sartre book was "Nausea" — great title for reading in a café. And the combination of Sartre and a café got us talking about ...
The Turing test, applied: The test will be carried out by human 'interrogators', each sitting at a computer with a split screen: one...
