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| US war robots in Iraq ‘turned guns’ on fleshy comrades | | Kill-droid rebellion thwarted… this time
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.
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| HOW TO - Build micro-bots |  This Instructable details a number of tiny robots (e.g. a cubic inch sumo and a pager-bot that fits on a quarter) built by the author. If nothing else, it’ll give you an idea for just how difficult it is to build autonomous, programmable robots on this scale.
Building Small Robots: Making One Cubic Inch Micro-Sumo Robots [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Vintage Japanese Robots |  This is a great collection of vintage Japanese robots, all of which can be seen at the Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle through October 26th 2008.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle will exhibit toys from Geismar’s collection in Robots: A Designer’s Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels through Oct. 26. The vintage robots [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-May-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Mission Accomplished | 
And so, 5 years after President Bush declared that "major combat operations in Iraq are over," the 4,374th coalition soldier has died in Iraq. The evidence continues to support my cont [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Shape-Shifting Robots | | The University of Pennsylvania created these modular robots that are able to recognize each other and assemble themselves into 1 larger robot. Once assembled, the larger robot is able to walk…theoretically. I just like the part where the guy kicks it!
Via - Engadget - Shape Shifting Robots
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Games, Guns, and Movies [Guns] | | Tom Endo has an interesting musing up over at the Escapist on the subject of guns, games, and game design — the issue at stake is what guns really mean in video games (his answer is 'not much, especially not compared to movies'). Dirty Harry may be a love letter to the . [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Oct-2008 by Maggie Greene in Guns Culture Film Game Design Violence
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Mark Penn Cost Hillary the Nomination | | Not just by being a double-dealing hack. He also Toverrode the best advice Hillary got about Iraq. The former chief pollster and lead strategist for the campaign explains:
the rest of the campaign didn't want to tackle Iraq. They always felt that that was a losing proposition for her, and they always pulled it back.
....Why do you think the rest of the team was af [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Jun-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| McCain, 100 years of Iraq, and the wrong year to stop shooting heroin | | The braintrust at conservative blog RedState is fed up with people complaining about John McCain's enthusiasm for a century more of our awesome Iraqi adventure. Sure, when McCain was asked if he minded 50 more years in Iraq, he responded "make it 100," and sure that'd mean 20 times the devastation to that nation and to our military. But RedState sees it through a different lens:
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| Surgin': McSame and Palin-spastic don't care about ________ people | | A couple years ago, John McCain staked his future on the idea that sending more soldiers to Iraq would solve all our problems. He was wrong.
In combination with a ceasefire by Moqtada al-Sadr, the surge did help reduce the level of violence, but Iraq's post-invasion problems are deeper than the violence. The nation is politically divided, and that isn't a problem that can be solved at [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Sep-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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