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Cool and Crap Awards of the Week
At least two things happened in the world of science and science fiction last week. One was cool, the other was crap.Coolest excuse to talk about human-robot love, or bot-on-bot love, without seeming like a total chromosexual pervert. The release of Wall-E, a robot love story, has stirred up everybody's memories of great robot love stories past. Now, for a brief time, you can talk about robo-love without coming across as a futuristic kinkster like David Levy, that guy who wrote the book on how we'll all be banging and marrying robots in a decade. Wired's Jenna Wortham even did a feature on the best robot love stories, though sadly she left out two of our favorites: Heartbeeps (accounting bot Andy Kaufman falls in love with hostess bot Bernadette Peters in the only movie Kaufman ever starred in), and Making Mr. Right (1980s-era John Malkovich as a nerdy space robot who romances a cute PR lady). Click through for the crap. More »
