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ROBO ARM-WRESTLER

World’s First “Smart Arm-Wrestling Robot” Unveiled (Telecoms Korea, via We Make Money Not Art)
Most robot and AI news goes into my chatbot’s weblog, They’re Made out of Meat.

OUT YOU GO

Three hospitals acknowledge putting discharged homeless patients into taxicabs and sending them to the downtown skid row area, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Representatives of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles and Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center said they were helping patients because skid row offers them their best chance of […]

FAIRIES 1, DEVELOPERS 0

Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him �15,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the […]

ELDERLY, STUDENTS, POOR SCREWED AGAIN

House Republicans, after weeks of negotiations, narrowly passed a budget bill early Friday to cut $50 billion from Medicaid, food stamps, student loans and other programs over the complaints of Democrats that Congress is squeezing students, the elderly and the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

House OKs budget bill cutting $50 billion […]

SWEET ZOMBIE MEGAJESUS RISING FROM THE GRAVE

Jesus first appears in a flash, a white statue rising from the flat cornfields 40 miles north of Cincinnati. Then he is gone, hidden behind a gas station.
Drive another quarter-mile up Interstate 75, past the billboards for Bristol’s Strip Club and Trader’s World Flea Market, and suddenly the image appears in all its full dimensions. […]

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2006

In 2006, we will rerelease a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of Sherlock Holmes, just as they were originally printed and illustrated in The Strand Magazine.
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Over 12 weeks from January through April 2006, Stanford will be republishing, free of charge, two early Holmes stories, “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Speckled Band”; the nine-part […]

NO FORKS

Q What do you think about while you’re lying atop a table, nearly naked, for an hour and a half ?
A I can hear the diners and I listen to the music, but I’m in my own world.
4 questions for the seminaked sushi lady (Chicago Tribune)

WEB 2.0: IT’S NOT JUST FOR BADGERS

What is Web 2.0? You redefine the paradigm (Register)

TODAY IS VETERANS DAY

While we hear the count of those who have been killed, the numbers of those who come home wounded physically, psychologically, or both, is less known. About 20 percent have injuries that require care for the rest of their lives. A study by the Army reported 17 percent have diagnoses reflecting major depression, anxiety disorder, […]

IT MUST BE THE MAGICAL HERBS ‘N’ SPICES

Good news, consumers! Rest assured that you can continue to eat greasy, deep-fried, salt-injected chickens that have probably been bludgeoned to death by bored factory workers—even in the face of a terrifying pandemic!
In coming days, KFC will have television commercials ready to reassure customers that its chicken is safe to eat if there is a […]