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...Your avatar can walk or run. You can go to a bowling alley and bowl too. A drop-down menu even lets you dance, everything from the robot to salsa-style. You can chat via text (clicking out messages SMS-style with the controller or using any USB keyboard) or attach a USB microphone and talk. But beyond that, it's pretty much like a day at the mall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A First Look at PlayStation Home | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...called him, was the genre's foremost advocate, missionary and ballyhooer. His love for the form, stretching back more than 80 years, godfathered and legitimized the obsessions of a million fanboys. His passion was their validation. He was the original Fanman. (See TIME's collection of Hollywood's best robot movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sci-Fi's No. 1 Fanboy, Forrest J Ackerman, Dies at 92 | 12/6/2008 | See Source »

...Lester Bangs wrote, “These are mutant times, and Talking Heads are the most human of mutant groups.” Give it a few tweaks, and the sentence is relevant to 2008: for these are robot times, and Kanye West is the most human of robot artists.It’s excusable to mistake West for an android. After all, his jaw’s half metal since that fateful car crash, and he got nanoimplants (or whatever) in the video for “Stronger.” And yeah, each track on his bold...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kanye West | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...environment and the nature of a period of potential loss. “A Hospital Odyssey” reads like a traditional epic, albeit with a modern bent: in meter, straightforward, and descriptive of action. She wrote, “Vials of blood were being analyzed next door. A robot shook them, thick as mud.” Although Lewis described poetry as an avenue through which to explore unsettling life situations, she maintained that poetry should not be used to cure depression. “Depression is a serious medical problem, and if you have it, you should...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Probes States of Mind | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...WALL?E Pixar's ravishing robot love story is now on three discs (one for downloading) with loads of fun extras, including a cartoon short and a doc about sound-effects genius Ben Burtt, plus commentary on the film by director Andrew Stanton. He's a great guy to spend a movie with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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