Life imitates SF

Philip K. Dick, what have you wrought? A test of a military robot designed to detonate landmines is considered "inhumane" to the robot.

Go directly to Mordor, do not pass Go, do not collect $200: Middle-earth Monopoly.

More reliable than the Star Trek food replicator, it's the next must-have convenience for the modern home: a 3-D printer. Once upon a time we all thought fax machines were pretty awesome.

Life imitates SF

Why Republicans don't read books: presidential hopeful Mitt Romney recently declared Hubbard's Battlefield Earth to be his favourite novel.

Testing future weapons tech with the help of children, and another step closer to remote wars and Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace: Next-generation light sabers read brainwaves.

Dress like Superman and be my bitch.

PKD Dept.: Travelling US Army defence contractors think Canadian coins are spying on them.   (via supergee)

Thoughtcrimes Dept.:
(1) Post-Virginia Tech, it could be argued that it is now becoming a crime for US children to disturb their teachers with their creative writing.
(2) One such teaching graduate was denied her degree for merely posting online a photo of herself captioned "drunken pirate". Arrr!!   (also via supergee)

Blair

Was at my parents' house at 2pm, where they have Classic FM on all day. After the big news about Blair's departure the first piece of music they played was from Holst's 'Planets' Suite – 'Jupiter', the planet of joy. I do like subtlety.