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The Creepiest Sex Robots In Mass Media Right Now

Ashton Kutcher posed as a robot being "tested" by his creator, in this photoshoot for vMan magazine with famous photographer Mario Testino. (See gallery below, completely with weirdly exaggerated robo-package in his briefs.) He says he got the idea from a Gatorade ad in which someone's being tested for their physical performance, and then he started thinking, what if God could test us, his creations, to see if we're fulfilling our function? And then somehow that led to him thinking about a robot being tested by his actual creator. Actually, his explanation is less cogent than that. But actually, Ashton's only the third creepiest and most inappropriately sexy robot in mass media at the moment. Want to see the two that are worse? More »

4:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
5,282 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: the svedka bot looks the slightest bit like tilda swinton. i like tilda swinton; the robot, not so much. call me crazy, but even though she's too skinny (shocker), i kinda dug the heineken bot... more »

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Fast Food is Bad for Comics, Says Judge Dredd

Britain's 2000AD is known for cutting its scifi with satire, but occasionally even the Galaxy's Greatest Comic can go too far. Such was the case with four episodes of Judge Dredd in 1978, which set out to prove just how dangerous fast food could be, and ended up demonstrating that it's not a good idea to mess with copyrights of international corporations if you're looking to avoid lawyers writing nasty letters. Who knew that Ronald McDonald could be so disagreeable? More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By grae
1,141 views, 12 comments

Latest by cde: @NefariousNewt: Well, if the court decides the idea the writer is trying to send is satire (Social commentary that doesn't specifically need those characters) instead of parody (Commentary on those specific characters) then they would indeed be found to be more »