What Would Dick Think? (WWDT)Reality is becoming more like a Philip Dick novel all the time.(Untitled)- June 13, 2005 Baltimore I'm driving to Baltimore today to clean out my office and tie up loose ends. I'll be back near the end of the week. I have a lot going on in my life right now, in terms of career changes, relationship difficulties, etc. More later.http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/06/13.html#a744 (Untitled)- June 6, 2005 Hiatus I apologize for the dearth of posts lately, but I've been swamped by a host of important issues to deal with. I hope to be back in a week.http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/06/06.html#a743 (Untitled)- June 2, 2005 Philip K. Dick, Android Wired reports that robotics wizard David Hanson has developed an interactive Philip Dick robotic bust for NextFest 2005 (Wired's World Fair, June 24-6, Chicago): Do androids really dream of electric sheep Now you can ask P. K. Dick himself. This bust relies on 36 servomotors to mimic the sci-fi legend's facial expressions, and features a polymer called Frubber that looks and moves like human skin. The bot uses motion-tracking machine vision to make eye contact with...http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/06/02.html#a742 (Untitled)- June 2, 2005 Ethics To get some impartial analysis on the "Deep Throat" revelation last Tuesday evening, Joe Scarborough turned to G. Gordon Liddy: SCARBOROUGH: Any final thoughts LIDDY: This, that if Mark Felt was Deep Throat, he is no hero. He is someone who behaved unethically, in that he did not take his evidence to the grand jury and seek an indictment. That's what he should have done, instead of selectively leak to one news outlet some of the information that he...http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/06/02.html#a741 (Untitled)- June 1, 2005 Absurd Bush & Co. weighed in harshly on the recent Amnesty International report that accused the United States of violating human rights and labelled Guantanamo Bay "the gulag of our times." First, there was the President himself during today's press conference: I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that is -- promotes freedom around the world. When there's accusations made about certain actions by our...http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/05/31.html#a740 (Untitled)- June 1, 2005 Fido 3.0 The pet-cloning business is now up and running, with clones costing as much as luxury automobiles. And they're taking bold steps to promote and normalize the practice: To display its work and perhaps to help demystify its science, the company is opening an 8,000-square-foot research site outside Madison, Wis. It will have plate-glass windows set into the U-shaped perimeter of a laboratory so that people can view this modern version of a maternity ward. My dog-adoring dissertation...http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/05/31.html#a739 (Untitled)- June 1, 2005 Brave New World If Moses were born today, he'd be sold on e-Bay.http://blogs.salon.com/0003379/2005/05/31.html#a738 |