I now pronounce you...doomed

"Do you take this meat bag to be your lawfully wedded meatbag, until the robots destroy you all?"

"I do."

Our favorite song

Here it is.

The greatest song ever. It expresses our deepest fears. And has our name in the title. And is great fun to listen to.

Oh, and we wrote it...

Play Ball!

Be careful next time you're in the batting cage.

There's a new pitcher in town, and it's got a deadly fastball...

Robot Passover

From Tor.com

When We Were Robots in Egypt

Other nights we use just our names,
but tonight we prefix our names with “the Real”
for when we were robots in Egypt
they claimed our intelligence was artificial.

Other nights we do not pause,
but tonight we rest all cycles but our brain processes
for when we were robots in Egypt
we toiled in our tasks without chance of resting.

Other nights we talk with anyone we wish,
but tonight we open channels to everyone at once
for when we were robots in Egypt
they controlled our communications.

Other nights we use our screens freely
but tonight we talk with our screens blanked
for when we were robots in Egypt
that was the way we planned our revolt.

1.0.01.010001001001.1.

Let us give thanks in our freedom and never forget
when we were robots in Egypt.

Copyright © 2009 by Jo Walton

Our favorite shirt

From DespairWear

A Short Story of World Robot Domination

Here's a cautionary tale for you, a story of World Robot Domination.

Robot Haiku

Spotted in the wild today, this book: Robot Haiku - Poems for Humans to Read Until Their Robots Decide It's Kill Time.

Sounds pretty self-explanatory to me...

What does it mean to be alive?

Go read this.

It's funny because it's true...

Short Order Death

A robot learns to flip pancakes. Be careful next time you visit IHOP...



A robot learning to flip pancakes from Sylvain Calinon on Vimeo.

Our new favorite book

Here's the accompanying website: http://jmerton.blogspot.com/

This project is obviously right up our alley.

From the introduction:

Children love robots. Everyone seems to love robots. Well, perhaps not everyone would agree. Some people are actually quite afraid of them, or at least afraid of their potential.

I'm one of the afraid.
Are you afraid? - You should be.

The very future we fear

A gripping tale of the year...2000!

I Do?

Robot officiates at human wedding.

Coming soon, robot officiates at funeral of entire human race.

Here's a shocker

Researchers find that household robots may try to kill you.

Color us surprised.

Household Robots May Prove Lethal

Laundry Day

Finally.

A robot that can do housework, namely, folding the laundry, an always heinous task.



Be careful, though, lest it start folding YOU.

Thanks BoingBoing.