Word: robotically
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...this. I'm pretty sure I spend way more time thinking about Ed Champion than he spends thinking about me. But Ed isn't my only weird, ectoplasmic Internet relationship. My life is increasingly being invaded by these people. There's a woman (or a man, or possibly a robot) named MoFlo4Sho who e-mails me a couple of dozen times a day with her various insane thoughts about religion and celebrities. It's one of the singular features of our little social-technological moment that people all over the world whom we otherwise would never even be aware...
...ONION PEELS RIGHT The Republican National Committee launches America Weakly, a conservative fake- news venture to compete with scads of liberal fake-news ventures. It appears to have imported a magic joke-writing John Birch robot from 1950 to produce most of the copy. Sample horoscope: "Beware of experiencing too much prosperity and wealth; it may result in more burden and commitment to Uncle Sam." Perhaps it's easier to skewer the Federal Government if you actually believe it should exist...
...Hoping to increase the benefits and accessibility of pet therapy, researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an interactive health care teddy bear, with advice from Hollywood's Stan Winston Studio, the engineers behind AI's "Teddy," according to MIT student researcher Dan Stiehl...
...lavishes extra fascination on Arnold Schwarzenegger: man, meme, Governor, bodybuilder, robot assassin--a man who cannot pronounce the letter r even though there's one in California and three in his name. It still boggles her that a celebrity can trade an actor's fame for a politician's popularity and have it be accepted as legal tender, one for one. Schwarzenegger's sheer blankness interests Wilentz too. "He's a pure narcissist," she writes. "Contentless, and in this way highly appropriate to his times...
...JENNINGS, Jeopardy! champion who won a record 74 consecutive games in 2004, last week correcting an earlier, much criticized blog entry in which he called Alex Trebek, the game show's longtime host, a robot...