Wacky Wednesday – the robot armpit edition

Yes robot armpits. Apparently instead of merely synthesizing the appropriate hormones – which we can detect at levels lower than we’re consciously aware of, and respond to without thought – someone is making a robotic armpit. I don’t know about you, but this gives whole new vistas of terror to the prospect of ending up Read More…

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Sunday Pot-pourri

Well, the refreshed system is mostly behaving nicely – most of my applications came back with no (or minimal) hiccups once I had the right things installed. I have two irritations: the online game I play for relaxation (an all-ages MMORPG called Wizard101) has acquired an annoying red overlay on some of the objects which Read More…

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Brave New World

A bit less than a month ago, there was an exchange in alt.fan.pratchett about Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and how it relates to happiness and fulfilment. One of the posts in the discussion (available here and including a fair amount of quoted material that the writer is responding to) makes the claim that eliminating Read More…

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