I’ve been reading a fair amount over the last few months, but I’ve finally had to admit to myself that I’ll never have the time or motivation any time soon to write about it in any depth. For completeness’ sake, then, here’s a list of what I’ve been reading and roughly what I thought about [...]
Robot wins, because Robot can crush puny human hand into thin, squidgy flipper incapable of forming your silly “rock”, “paper” or “scissors” salutes.
Good Thing: Finding my favourite guitar effect pedal - presumed lost years ago - while rummaging through a well-buried box.
Bad Thing: Discovering that the battery hadn’t been removed, and that the insides are now a blackened, foamy, corroded mess.
As context for this post: I got new glasses today. This involved the usual 15 minutes of trying-on, tweaking, wrenching, trying-on-again, make-sure-you-can-still-see faffing around in the shop when picking them up, after which I walked back out into the street, ready to carry merrily on with my day.
Hopefully this will help explain the following open [...]
U.S. scientist Craig Venter claims to have created the first artificial life form. The joyous, bodyless future where we all scoot around as jet-powered brains-in-jars is surely just around the corner.
Guardian - 06/10/2007
Mr Venter told the Guardian he thought this landmark would be “a very important philosophical step in the history of our species. We [...]
The Daily Telegraph sez: Do not spurn gifts from twitchy Japanese office workers
A disgruntled Japanese worker smashed up his employer’s office in a fit of pique after his boss ignored his gift of sweets.
An Osaka court was told that the 31-year-old man, who worked for an online clothing sales company, had given the company president [...]
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