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...makes navigating the Internet as easy as pointing and clicking a mouse -- the task of constructing (and accessing) these projects became infinitely easier. The new game online -- at least among those users who are handy with both modems and soldering irons -- is to wire up computers with cameras, microphones, robot arms and all manner of sensors to make something cool and really useless that everybody can enjoy...
...failure of Euro Disney and the opening of Baltic Disney is the subject of a "News and Notes" brief. Other "News and Notes" briefs announce the arrest of Star Wars robot C-3PO, the love affair between Soon-Yi Farrow and her sister's Ken doll and the rise of Jams-wearing baby shower terrorists...
...show offers giddy social commentary. Watching a '50s industrial film promoting General Motors cars in a gleaming world-of-tomorrow landscape, Servo (he's the red gumball machine with Slinky arms) intones, "Future not available in Africa, India, or Central or South America." Listen to Crow (the gold robot constructed of a lacrosse helmet, a split bowling pin and some Tupperware sections) explain the Hercules sex-and-pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto the screen into big sweaty guys pushin' girls around." Or Mike...
...Another possibility is that the door "may have been left untied," says TIME reporter Ulla Plon in Copenhagen. Authorities maintained that the ferry complied with Swedish maritime safety standards. "They are now looking at whether those safety standards should be changed," says Plon. Investigators are using an unmanned, undersea robot to look for clues on the ferry, which lies at a depth of about...
Even though the U.S. is the destination of choice for Cuban rafters, the millions who remain are stubborn about not wanting Washington or the exiles in Miami to cram changes down their throat. "I'm a party member, not a robot. We don't accept many things that the government does, but we are changing the country in our way," says a government official. Even entrepreneurs like Gutierrez draw the line at interference from Cuban Americans. "I'm not going to work for the people in Miami, even though a lot of them are my friends," he says. Almost...