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Getting Ready for the Final Battle

This looks like the poster for an awesome science fiction film that we'd like to see: a girl in a giant hulking exoskeletal suit of armor with her comic-effect tiny little robotic pal perched on her shoulder. You've got evil signified by the pouring lava on the left hand side of the background, while fighters triumphantly scream past a proud city on the right. Whatever is happening here, we want to know more. More »

11:45 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,564 views, 18 comments

Latest by themysteriousx: Why are we presuming that the character is a girl? Outside of pre-existing potential reference points, it could be a dude. Personally, I think it is one of the brothers from Hanson. Or it might be Gunter Nelson. more »

lunchtime reading

Disarming a Landmined World in Eliot Fintushel Story, Free Online

In a war-ravaged future where most urban areas are riddled with mines, a de-miner's only friends are New York street kids and his bomb dog Uxo (short for unexploded ordnance). In the short story "Uxo, Bomb Dog," available from excellent scifi blog Futurismic, author Eliot Fintushel creates a wry, sad portrait of a man who has devoted his lonely life to de-mining open spaces so people can walk freely in parks again. Eventually, the government sends him a human partner and the two of them turn their de-mining into a kind of strange comedy act, attracting locals to watch them de-mine fields while dispensing Smokey the Bear-style wisdom about how to avoid getting your face blown off while walking across Central Park ("Use your pate! Circumnavigate!") Yes, it's today's lunchtime reading. More »

8:40 AM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Annalee Newitz
922 views, 29 comments

Latest by FrankenPC: @cde: Or use high power microwaves. You can vaporize the explosive material with enough power. more »