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Running out of Star Wars cultural ephemera is simply never going to happen. Below, some more links for your consumption:

Reinterpreting the original trilogy in the light of Episode III. Executive summary: Chewie and R2 ran the show.
The backstroke of the West. What happens when a dvd pirate subtitles Episode III in Chinese and then it’s […]

Robotperson is away from his desk right now.
Live transmission will resume shortly, but until then I’ve recorded a few nuggets and, via the magic of Wordpress, programmed them to broadcast at regular intervals whilst I’m away. So stay tuned.
Any queries you have in the mean time should be addressed to an Ai entity with a […]

Sci / tech articles for your cogitation:

Twelve ways to think differently, and no, this isn’t anything to do with Apple. Favourites of mine include:

6) Synthesis, Distillation and Restatement. Forcing yourself to explain an issue to someone is a great way to highlight the gaps in your understanding and gain insight.
12) Collaboration. I don’t do nearly […]

There have been a few articles relating to Intelligent Design (ID) in New Scientist recently, and one in particular tickled me.
For those who don’t know, ID is supposedly a non-partisan, ’scientific’ alternative to the theory of evolution as an explaination for the origins of life. In a nutshell, life is too complicated to have arisen […]

The links have been piling up in the robotperson bookmarks folder. Lets start with these:

Amaztype. Very cool use of Amazon’s open API.
Social Suicide menswear. “Tailored in Savile Row and styled for a civil row”
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2005 results. Superbly bad fiction.
Why cats prefer meats to sweets
We are not alone
Cut your own vinyl with the Vestax […]

We went to see the much-hyped Crash on Saturday night and if you’re thinking of going, I can definitely recommend it.
Initially I found the film quite uncomfortable to watch. There’s a lot of racism, and until I got a feel for what it was actually about this felt quite gratuitous. Still, part of what we […]

One giant leap for robot.
It’s nothing to get excited about in the scheme of things, but I’m excited anyway. I’ve promoted the test WordPress pages to live and so now robotperson.com is dynamic.
It doesn’t seem to have been too complicated a process in retrospect, but since the definition of ‘easy’ is “I know […]

Last week on the prom I found £100. It was in two £50’s, neatly folded together. Unfolding the outer note to find another within was an almost chemically satisfying moment, like the rush of eating a first chunk of chocolate. Although I can’t help admitting to a pricking of disappointed greed when I saw that [...]

WordPress is coming. Some 5 years off the pace, Robotperson is about to enter the 21st Century with a dynamically driven web site.What does this mean?
I’ll be able to post from wherever there’s a web connection. This should hopefully mean more frequent posting – lunch hour links and that sort of thing.