French Face Transplant Update
Transplant recipient greets reporters. A2 update: Face Transplant Woman doing well, seeks privacy Associated Press PARIS — The French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant told...
View ArticleFreeloading Monkey
This monkey has been given a robotic arm, controlled by its own brain. I’m sick of every species except ours benefitting from our technology. Chimps aren’t even paying for their own smokes and I’m...
View ArticleChessboxing
One round chess; one round boxing. I would love to see IBM try to do to Tyson what they did to Kasparov. It’s just too bad that Deep Blue doesn’t have ears. But the programmers do.
View ArticleHumping Human Shaped Plastic
One might even say that the weather outside is frightful. But, this winter, things inside promise to be delightful. Thanks to the Japanese company Dolls No Mori, I need never go out and deal with the...
View ArticleThe Human Touch
“There’s a simple reason why computers have not taken over teachers’ jobs: They’re boring, unpersuasive, unattractive and soulless.“ Indeed. How I miss the lively, persuavive, beautiful and soulful...
View ArticleOwl Pellets: Office, Socially Mediated, Cuban Missile Dick
Starting to get the office set up. It’s a nice feeling. I had been working off a folding chair and a plank of wood propped up on dresser. Funny enough, these were better conditions than I wrote,...
View ArticleHow to Live Without Humor
On November 17 the New York Times published, How to Live Without Irony, an article by Christie Wampole. Rather than think about the piece –I’m bored of arguments and humans– I outsourced the job to a...
View ArticleMy Office or Lab or Whatever the Fuck . . .
I’ve been meaning to get around to this for a while but I dunno . . . Taking pictures or having them taken is just . . . Ungh. Anyway, my office. It still needs some work — I want a new desk– maybe...
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