Robot army

I put a bunch of robots on one page of my other site, so I have them all in one place. I still have a ton more to put up. This little guy on the right I just finished yesterday. He is painted on canvas and now he's hanging on my wall. Doesn't he look friendly? The hand on his head reminds me of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, a strangely wonderful live-action musical by Dr. Seuss.

It's comical

I've randomly stumbled across the "Her" comic strip a few times in my web travels, but this one is my favorite so far. Why do hipsters drive me so crazy?

The Meatrix

Today, I've seen links to this site everywhere, but maybe just because I've been visiting lots of environmental websites. It's a Matrix-inspired Flash animation about why factory farms are evil. It's really well done. I dream of one day being this good at Flash, and using my artistic abilities to inform the masses about important social issues...

	all this technology makes me feel fat

A robot for me

This one is about when technology is a pain to deal with. Like when you have a cell phone that's not charged, or your palm pilot forgets the stuff it's supposed to be remembering, and you have to reset it and start all over.

Time for a bad analogy! Maybe technology is like candy that has lots of artificial colors and flavoring. If you have the right amount, it is sweet and nice, and makes you feel like you have extra energy. But if you have too much, you get this weird kind of headache and start feeling sick inside.


And on the other hand...

Kelly sent me a link to this computer blessing. Visit the site to get the full effect (lots of overly cutesy animated .gifs and a few pop up ads). Here is a tiny sample:

Please take a minute from your busy duties
To bless all of our computers filled with love

Tiny robots

Here are two more robots that I mailed out on postcards. These are from a while ago. I am falling behind on my robot painting, and some people on my list to get robots probably think I forgot about them. But I didn't. (These robots are shown approximately actual size... at least, with my screen resolution settings.)

	i am very bright		i am not as bright

Random stuff

I keep stumbling across things I want to write about, but then I can't find the time to post. Maybe because I'm trying to write a novel this month. (I don't have an excerpt online or anything, but if I ever get it published, I'll post a link to my book on Amazon.com!)



I know why people stop blogging. It's because they write up this whole big post and then it disappears forever into a black hole called Blogger. I think I've learned my lesson. I'm writing this one in Homesite and I'll paste it into the Blogger window when I'm done.



Robots are people, too?

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots fascinates me. Here's another article about robot rights. It reminds me of a little thing I wrote a while ago, explaining why in the future, robots will have vacation days. My theory had to do with equal rights for all employees (regardless of whether they're flesh or metal), or something like that.



High-speed growing

I wrote a little description of this site for work, but it's also a cool use of technology. Use the links on the left side to watch QuickTime videos of flowers blooming, seeds sprouting and other planty actions.



I like the word "Robolution"

Someday when I'm not trying to write a novel, I'm going to spend many hours reading and experimenting with the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots. It's a book, but the website seems to have lots of good info, including a few Heroes of the Robolution trading cards.

I don't always like technology

Computerized voting machines seem like SUCH a bad idea. From this CNN article:

"The computer science community has pretty much rallied against electronic voting," said Stephen Ansolabahere, a voting expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "A disproportionate number of computer scientists who have weighed in on this issue are opposed to it."

Shouldn't we be listening to the computer scientists? They're the experts on this stuff! Here's an MSNBC article with more reasons to think Diebold's machines are evil, including that the company's CEO was a major supporter of Bush's presidential campaign.



Voting machines aren't the only thing that sucks. The person who stole my friend Paul's laptop sucks a lot. I don't really expect random strangers to donate money to buy him a new one, but wouldn't it be cool if they did?