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Entries Tagged as 'Robots'

Happy New Year

December 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

I don’t know about you, but I’d say this gives that Gary Coleman and Michael Hasselhoff picture a run for its money.

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Tags: Eye Candy · Robots

The Golden Age of Blogging

September 4th, 2009 · 10 Comments

The Golden Age of Blogging is over; bring on the Silver Age.

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Tags: Blogging · Favorites · Not Blogging · Robots

Hacking as a Way of Knowing

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

…was a ton of fun, but man, making stuff in the real world is hard! We didn’t make a killer robot after all; we made a flower that only blooms in artificial light.

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Tags: Asides · Digital History · History Appliances · Robots

I Will Do My Best To Teach Them About Life And What It's Worth

April 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Off to Bill Turkel and Edward Jones-Imhotep’s “Hacking as a Way of Knowing” Workshop, May 1-3 2009.

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Tags: Digital History · History Appliances · Robots · Technology

Robo-Theorizing

December 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Bill Benzon on Astro Boy and the robot as subaltern. Hat tip to The Constructivist–but which of his blogs to link to?

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Tags: Asides · Japan is Cool · Robots

Do You Feel Lucky, Steampunk?

July 22nd, 2008 · 16 Comments

The Kinematrix has you: three alternate Victorian internets.

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Tags: Alternate History · Early Internets · Favorites · Gilded Age · Robots · Telephony

Captured Monsters

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

“Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee…” A blog of stills from old monster movies.

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Tags: Asides · Robots

You Are Number 0110

May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Spybots invade English village.

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Tags: Robots

Infomancy

April 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.

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Tags: Favorites · Japan is Cool · Robots · Technology

Gakutensoku

April 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Japanese robots and the gaijin who keep stealing them. Plus blood sacrifice by index card to begin the information age.

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Tags: Favorites · Japan is Cool · Robots