Harvest Automation This will move your plants and then STRANGLE YOU! NPR’s Marketplace did a story the other day about the adorable $30k robots that are taking the place of normal, blood pumping, human workers on farms. While Americans were worried about immigrants taking our jobs, an army of robots plotted how to re-take those […]
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Trailer for World War Z
World War Z: good book, troubled film production. Max Brooks’ oral history of a worldwide zombie plague is clever and fun—and at this point, it’s the one exception that proves the rule that zombies, as monsters and characters/metaphors/whatever, are totally exhausted. Brad Pitt’s adaptation of World War Z, which appears to trade intimacy for spectacle, […]
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This Is Your Fault, Internet
TRANS4MERS This is a real thing that is happening. For those of you who think Michael Bay doesn’t give a shit what people on the internet say, you are 100 percent correct! But sometimes he hears what people on the internet say. So when nerds started guessing that Mark Wahlberg might be in Transformers 4, […]
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Shrieking White-Hot Sphere of Pure Rage In 2016
After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016 Via the Onion, which has yet again proven to be the best place to go for eerily accurate post-election analysis.
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You Can’t Judge a Bob Dylan Album By Its Cover…
…except in this case, you probably can. Tempest comes out September 11, and will sound like a squeaky screen door being battered by the wind.
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Robots Playing Soccer
Now I’m not saying we should replace the Timbers with adorable robots—ummm… actually, I think that’s exactly what I’m saying. Check out this robot soccer blooper reel!
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Cracked Explains Why Internet Journalism Is Terrible.
And why “How to Kill a Zombie,” which Erik wrote in 2004, is suddenly on our “most popular” list. Read the article.
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Tonight! KATU Wants Everyone to Be Afraid of Marauding Crazy People!
Have you seen this yet? KATU is airing a melodramatic commercial for an “investigative” piece tonight that’s apparently all about how the Oregon State Hospital keeps on letting crazy people lumber free from decrepit cages to menace innocents and little children. They’re pulling out all the stops: sinister music, a raspy narrator, gritty black-and-white footage—even […]
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Fleet Foxes: “The Shrine/An Argument”
Here is a new and absolutely brilliant video for Fleet Foxes‘ “The Shrine/An Argument,” off this year’s Helplessness Blues. Directed by Sean Pecknold—with gorgeous character illustrations by Stacey Rozich—this engrossing eight-minute epic follows some sort of elk on a trek through the dawn of the (refreshingly zombie-free) apocalypse. Video. Watch. Now. End Hits: And then […]
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Good Afternoon, Uncanny Valley!
Meet two new robots the Japanese have invented, both designed to scare the poop into your pants. First there’s “Mask-Bot,” which according to The Week, uses “facial emotion data” to emulate an actual human face. This is super creepy, and not to be mean, but I’m pretty sure I saw this thing protesting at Occupy […]
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Flying Orb Robot Will Kill Us All
It seems so clear now. Of course Skynet will actually be located in Japan. As obvious as it is that flying orb robot will eventually enslave and brutally massacre us all, I do find it utterly adorable that it has a little plastic egg for a little house. Via io9.