The “Insurgent Robots Edition”

Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.

CTV news is currently running a web poll with the question “There are protests this weekend demanding an end to the military mission in Afghanistan. What do you think should happen next?” - my question is, why?

“CrackBerry” addicts were looking for thumbthing to do late Monday as BlackBerry smartphones throughout North America went on the blink.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

Send a trackback, leave a comment, and remember the day when DOS was king - they never should have rapped about it though, that was just wrong…… the cheesy dancers didn’t help either.

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You were named Time magazine “Person of the Year” today for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace.

The federal government has turned down a request by Canada’s space industry to support a contract that would have allowed the companies to build the European Space Agency’s Mars surface rover

21 years ago today the world changed, I doubt that anyone thought much about it at the time, but the events of that day have proven to be significant.

Well, that’s what I was saying up until a few minutes ago anyway - specifically I was really missing my “Wikipedia Toolbar” and “View Formatted Source” FireFox extensions after recently upgrading to the 2.0 release, now joy and happiness have returned to the official browser of the bunker.

According to Sir Timmy, “the internet is in danger of being corrupted by fraudsters, liars and cheats” - the bunker is shocked, but just in case it is true we’ve contacted our Nigerian banker to protect the fund for benevolent world domination.

Ya know what I fear, I fear people who say things like, “Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation will start spreading over the web” — and of course I fear the people who believe that sort of tripe, for they are obviously not intelligent enough to own the sharp objects in their kitchen drawers, let alone make decisions on the topic.

Open Trackback & Comments Sunday #4, leave a trackback, post a tip, or click an ad.

Once more we see that Harper and crew either have absolutely no clue about the remote northern regions of the country they are running and the conditions (economic or otherwise) that exist there, or they simply do not give a rats ass about the people who are doing a hell of a lot more than his government ever could in maintaining the Arctic sovereignty he trots out to grab a headline every now and again.

I’m currently in a tent by the river but here’s number 3 in the open trackback & comments Sunday series - have fun eh?