robots twitter, too

so now i'm following @r2d2 on twitter, and i enjoy his tweets. even if i don't really understand them.

but there are other, far less clever and endearing robots on twitter...

via Mashable:

6. You are a robot

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You are not really a person at all. You are a bot. I’m a science fiction fan. I’m all for the rights of robots and all that, but in the world we live in bots are not exactly the highly developed neural networks that will eventually take over the world as predicted by the Singularity or the Terminator series of films. For now, if you just use Twitter to promote content that is produced elsewhere and that process is automated, then you just might be a robot.

@NYTimes - All the news that’s fit to Tweet. Yeah, I said it.

@CNN - Cable news channel embracing and succeeding on Twitter.

@Newsweek - A national magazine trying to reinvent itself. Stories are fed into a Twitter stream.

Flight of the Conchords

saw them tonight at radio city music hall. brilliant.

People.

some days i like to state the obvious.

old glory insurance with robot coverage

paul smith robots

the wall-e screen kiss

Wall-E.  A bit Woody Allen, yes.  Terribly earnest.  Friendly with roaches.  Diligent in his work. And a participant in one of the greatest screen kisses I've ever seen.  Over on noahbrier.com, a nice bit about how we can only accept unadulterated joy in a dystopian future universe in which the beings that find and experience true love are, well, robots.

That is the role of sci-fi, though - to let us explore things under the comforting guise of a world we pretend is not like our own.  Dad used to teach an ethics course using sci-fi paperbacks.  I was able to learn about bigotry, genocide, environmental destruction, genetically modified food, and lord knows what else all by reading Buy Jupiter, and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov one summer as a kid.  Interracial couples could kiss on the deck of the Enterprise, and Russians could be trusted.  Blonde girls can experience the loneliness of leadership and strength in Sunnydale.  How to balance liberty and safety, and how not to, can be demonstrated onboard a Battleship.

It's about allegory.  I work in a business that could stand to use more allegory to explain its ideas.  This makes me want to go play with some allegories.  Be back later.

first of all, hulu kind of sucks

Yeah. Let's start there.  It kind of sucks.  A few minutes of hilarity never expires.  That's crazy!  Eventually I'll seek out some link to the robot bit on Colbert that will not expire, all willy-nilly.  But right now I have another topic in mind.

So.  It's been awhile. About a month, I guess. How are you?  Oh, good.

I wanted to watch a movie the other day - something fun and simple, etc.  I am that person who has an AppleTV, so I thought I'd check out the new releases there.  Sadly, they don't really have a 'new releases' section, but the other day, they did have a robot section.  Behold.

Oh, I was just so excited.  I did this screen grab (above), and made a mental note to blog about it and then I left the country.  For, say, three, maybe four, weeks.  A little distracted, then. Whatevs.

I'll try to post more, that's my point.