Update 07/29/2009: Thank you Jon for submitting the following story with the ominous subject “It begins.” Sweden’s Local News in English reports: A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm… “I’ve never heard of a robot [...]
The Last Sunrise of 2008 I took a picture this morning. Low-tech Misbehaving I like to rail against people who do text messaging while driving, but to be fair it’s not just high-tech addicts who have a problem. This morning I noticed an idiot reading a book while driving on I-66. As a safe alternative, [...]
My wife and I caught the original Terminator movie on free tv this weekend. Terminator is a great action-adventure movie where ordinary citizen Sarah Connor battles a hi-tech machine. The star of the movie series, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, made news this weekend by campaigning with Senator John McCain. Carl Campanile reports in the NY [...]