On teh internets
I guess they really do know if you're a dog. Bringing to mind (per usual) the quavering voice of David Crosby's over-the-top histrionic paranoid manifesto Almost Cut My Hair: "It serves to increase my...
View ArticleSelf-replicating robots are here
This story from the BBC explains how researchers at Cornell have created a very simple robot that can assemble a duplicate of itself. Now, it's not the time to panic (yet).
View ArticleThe robot overlords command you to dance!
Want to learn ballroom dancing? Don't feel like having all that icky physical contact with a human being?
View ArticleOf robotic automation and the ingenuity of the sex industry
A Japanese sex club advertisement robot. What could I possibly comment further…?
View ArticleTesting 1, 2, 3. Check. Check. …. Waiter?!
I've been working with some test harnesses for our Croquet worlds. It's been a real pain working outside of Croquet: getting things to happen across multiple platforms.
View ArticleDesign Contest Yeilds Adorable Machine of Loving Grace
Electroluxe is sponsoring a design contest for products that we will see in the next 90 years. One of the entries is a little robot whose sole purpose in life is to take care of a single plant on Mars...
View ArticleRoland the Robot explains how publishing works today
I met Roland Denning in the comment thread of an article that Cory Doctorow had written in the Guardian (UK) about Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers. . I wrote to Roland proposing...
View ArticleBehind the Bobo
Following in the tradition of behind-the-scenes posts like The Making of Idiot’s Mask, I invite you now to take a look at the genesis of my most recent serialization effort, Bobo, in which I will share...
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