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Close your eyes and step forward through the back door of the room. Where does it lead? To your cave. Step forward into your cave. That's right, you're moving deeper into your cave. And you're going to find your Power Animal... "slide."

I've never been so accurately insulted in my life!

Darren Aronofsky, director of "Pi" and the amazing "Requiem for a Dream" is working with Frank Miller on the next Batman

The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality and the Nazi Pary

I Gave My Cat An Enema

Flem comics
Many funny pages, but have to occasionally suffer through a bad streak.

A moody photograph with effective composition.

A stungun test to show how utterly ineffective stunguns are.

Batteries printed on paper

Textual analysis as a clue to suicide

Phillip K. Dick's letter to the FBI where he denounces Thomas Disch's "Camp Concentration" for containing coded neo-Nazi messages "to be read by the right people here and there" Curiously, in other correspondence he gave it the highest praise.

Look around you at the environment we live in. Carbon dioxide, flourocarbons, and methane have increased since 1968. Earth is being aclimatized. They are turning our atmosphere in to their atmosphere. We are like a natural resource to them. Deplete one planet, move on to another. They want benign indifference. They want us drugged. We could be pets. We could be food. But all we really are is livestock.
Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled in to a trance. They have made us indefferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain.

--John Carpenter's "They Live"

This is hilarious. To be seen to the tune of the Transformers soundtrack only!

Deep-space probes are decelerating for no apparent reason.

The woes of Ultima Online
"Lord British wears a silver crown and a gray tunic with a silver serpent emblazoned on the chest. As the ruler of Britannia, he has been a frequent target of protest; at one point, hundreds of disgruntled citizens stripped down to their underwear, broke into his castle, and stood around shouting (well, typing) profanities."

Apple says "Think Different", but Not Too Different

Evolving soccerbots
NOTE: The good stuff (pictures and captions) is near the bottom of the page.
The evolved soccerbot problem is an order of magnitude more interesting than something like evolving CoreWars bots, because the individual bots that make up a successful robotic soccer team have to cooperate without any direct communication (that would be mind-reading).

A brief overview of the role of military funding in artificial intelligence research.
And here is another look

An interview with John Koza, inventor of genetic programming
'There was incredible hostility to genetic programming,' Koza remembers. 'And most of it was centred in the genetic algorithm community - which is curious because the GA community on the whole has been excluded from the mainstream AI and machine learning community'