Friday dog-blogging: cognition

One of the best sci-fi novels of all time, Neuromancer, turns 25 this year. A look back at what it got right, and what may be yet to come.

Speaking of what is yet to come, what if blow-'em-up director Michael Bay pitched The Great Gatsby?? Aaaand ... ACTION

It’s going to be tough to get fans of the book and representatives of the Fitzgerald estate behind the idea of putting robots in this movie. And it’ll also be hard just getting your average, general audience-member behind the idea of introducing robots out of nowhere 40 minutes into what is either an apocalyptic party film or a romantic tale about obsession and class wars. I’m not doubting your abilities (loved Transformers!), I’m just suggesting that you might want to either introduce the robots earlier and explain their presence, or not introduce them at all.

Iran or Star Wars? I didn't get a perfect score, much to my surprise.

The governor trash-talked the Legislature for conducting a committee hearing on the practice of docking cow tails. But a few weeks ago, Arnold had a set of brass bull testicles delivered to the Senate Speaker. So I guess the message is, if you're gonna discuss bovine body parts in Sacramento, keep it funny. (Or stick to boy parts.)

15 of the creepiest vintage ads of all time - nice grouping!

The Lord of the Rings as told in Dungeons and Dragons style [comic]

Twitter zzz machine - every time someone posts "zzz", anywhere in the world, the birdies sing. Pretty!

Meeting ticker - start it running before you leave for your next meeting. (No fair forwarding this to Arnold - I don't want to hear he used this knowledge against some poor Legislative committee hearing.)

And for the aspiring hypochondriac, NCBI ROFL, a blog that shares a funny medical journal article every day!

Comments

[pam]

I just noticed today's post has nothing to do with dogs, and almost nothing to do with cognition. I think I need a new schtick!

[Anthony]

Frankly, strip away the layers of acquired sanctity about LOTR and you'll find--no big surprise here--the entire corpus of D and D imagery and mythology staring back at you: dungeons, a dragon (by proxy), magical artifacts, elves, dwarves, humans, orcs, goblins and Very Good versus Very Bad. Throw in a kender and a pair of D20s and presto chango: and D&D adventure all set up and rarin to go.
Just, please, no giant robots or Uwe Boll references...