Robot Programmed to Love Traps Woman in Lab, Hugs Her Repeatedly
Basically the headline says it all. It won’t be Terminators that take us down — just out-of-control robots intent on hugging.
Piper Palin fixes her brother’s hair. Piper Palin for president!!
They wind up in London’s crowded Waterloo station where they have to dodge bullets from a CIA sniper, that of course is the sort of thing which happens to us all the time. But there are inaccuracies. The Guardian stylebook clearly states that if you are under a hail of bullets in a public place from an assassin run by a deniable intelligence unit, you have to duck into the nearest internet cafe and start blogging about it to keep the readers informed.
From The Guardian’s review of The Borne Ultimatum, via here.
So in 20 years will science textbooks contain a screenshot of this tweet announcing water on Mars?
(Not that the kids will be using textbooks, anyway, when they can just look everything up on Wikipedia. Also, “FTW.” Hee.)
Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)
The king commented on Hamlet’s play: “What is wrong with you?”
This is genius and oh-so true. (via nostrich)
“Most annoying Craigslist apartment ad ever”
Dude, basic HTML: you close tags with a slash. Though it is funny watching the text get progressively larger as the
<h1> tags build up. (via getupgetout)When I worked at a paper I maintained the strictest adherence to protecting people’s God-given Constitutional right to look like idiots in print.
Angelle, a commenter on the Whatever
They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson
I was reminded of this brief, funny SF story by an io9 article this morning. At one point in college we put on a stage version of several of Bisson’s stories, including this one. It’s hilarious, but sad.
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
Ruby does her adorable head twist when she hears strange sounds (in this case, my wife trying to find something Ruby’s never heard before). ALERT: the sound on this is loud.
If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.
Muphry’s Law (via jstn)
Via soupsoup.
Oh, Calvin & Hobbes. Who wants to buy me the amazing colossal superset?
More art (and a fan site) here.
Other Dangerous Historical Events Hillary Clinton Experienced as First Lady
“I remember landing under sniper fire.”
Mead Releases New Grad-School-Ruled Notebook
Thank goodness. I was wasting way too much room.
