More military ‘bots, beginner’s guide to lockpicking, the age of endarkenment, DLE in defence of Microsoft, the Simulation Argument …

• 1 – Unmanned “Surge”: 3000 More Robots for War

  “… these smallish robots, weighing fifty pounds or less, will be used mostly for reconnaissance duty — looking out for insurgents, and their bombs.”

  (tags: technology robotics military)

• 2 – The Beginners Guide To Lock Picking

  “You never know where and when you may need to pick a lock. You may just need to get into your house or car, or you may be captured by insurgents in a foreign nation.” Er, yes. For information only, folks.

  (tags: tutorial hacking guide beginners lockpicking)

• 3 – The age of endarkenment

  “It has been a period in which truth ceased to matter very much, and dogma and irrationality became once more respectable.” Right on, brother.

  (tags: philosophy culture enlightenment science reason medicine health)

• 4 – knife.hand.chop.bot automatically threatens your digits

  Remember the opening scene of Aliens, with the knife trick? Yeah. You *so* wouldn’t want to get involved.

  (tags: machine weird knife MumbletyPeg dare game art technology)

• 5 – In Defense of Microsoft

  David Louis Edelman steps into the firing line with a very well-reasoned piece.

  (tags: business function mediocrity innovation corporation opensource FOSS Microsoft)

• 6 – Wearable necklace camera concept records what you see

  “Frossen has designed a wearable fish-eye camera and microphone that wirelessly transmit data to the user’s mobile phone for storage.”

  (tags: concepts technology blogging media storage recording data history persistence lifelogging)

• 7 – Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch

  “Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby.” Gotta love the Simulation Argument.

  (tags: headf*ck civilisation simulation hypothesis posthumanism philosophy SimulationArgument)