Frolix-8 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/ A not-so-Vast Active Living Intelligence System en-GB Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:26:34 +0100 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Frolix_8http://feedburner.google.com Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/RWyG2XukL4o/w-6.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-6.html The Minority Report - "A computer is forecasting who among the city's 49,000 parolees is likeliest to rob, assault, or kill someone." A Scanner Darkly - "The researchers said their work was an "important step" towards finding ways to get...


The Minority Report - "A computer is forecasting who among the city's 49,000 parolees is likeliest to rob, assault, or kill someone."

A Scanner Darkly - "The researchers said their work was an "important step" towards finding ways to get many nanoscale devices working together."

The Zap Gun - "XREP packages a complete Taser system including power supply in a 12-gauge shotgun round with a range of 100 feet. On striking, it inflicts a 20-second Taser shock cycle via some clever electrodes, immobilizing the target."

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Could People With Giant Skulls Be Controlling the Weather?
 
]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:26:34 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-6.html Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/4LQlcQn8qH0/which-pkd-story-are-we-in-today-.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/which-pkd-story-are-we-in-today-.html The Preserving Machine - "Music seems to offer a novel method of communication rooted in emotions rather than in meaning." Survey Team - "The outcome of the bilateral meeting was an agreement to create a Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI)...

The Preserving Machine - "Music seems to offer a novel method of communication rooted in emotions rather than in meaning."

Survey Team - "The outcome of the bilateral meeting was an agreement to create a Mars Exploration Joint Initiative (MEJI) that will provide a framework for the two agencies to define and implement their scientific, programmatic and technological goals at Mars."

The Zap Gun - "In GAR, new weapons evolve in unique ways from older weapons that players fire the most."

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The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
 
]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:39:11 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/which-pkd-story-are-we-in-today-.html Behind The Scenes @ Radio Free Albemuth http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/yDdVgR7sVPQ/behind-the-scenes-radio-free-albemuth.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/behind-the-scenes-radio-free-albemuth.html I was wondering what had happened to the recent film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth. I appears the director has been busy getting it 'right', and a release is due soon. Quiet Earth has more and some stills (including the...

I was wondering what had happened to the recent film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth. I appears the director has been busy getting it 'right', and a release is due soon. Quiet Earth has more and some stills (including the fantastic Dr. Who-bothering 'Progressive Records' logo above). Looking good; Morrissette certainly looks the part, as does Hannah Hall. The 'Earth also has a tasty tidbit on the Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said adaptation. No word on Matt Damon's Adjustment Team, though. I called on the jury, but they were out.

]]> Film Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:51:32 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/behind-the-scenes-radio-free-albemuth.html Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/AXLqSZMkQoc/w-5.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-5.html Sales Pitch - "Remember when you could buy barbiturates for the baby? Cover your house with asbestos? Or get heroin from the doctor?" The World Jones Made - "Panasonic isn't the first company to turn to robots as a means...

Sales Pitch - "Remember when you could buy barbiturates for the baby? Cover your house with asbestos? Or get heroin from the doctor?"

The World Jones Made - "Panasonic isn't the first company to turn to robots as a means for dispensing drugs, but it looks like it's set to become one of the bigger players in the still fledgling field..."

The Ganymede Takeover - "The new illusion-producing device would have to be capable of working without interfering with the invisibility cloak itself (which, if you recall, also can't properly be said to exist)."

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Soon The Supreme Court Will Destroy America
 
]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:21:31 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-5.html Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/pw2zN3cBUec/w-4.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-4.html Twitter Tuesday Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "Sega Toys says this is the right choice for those who just don't have the time for a real pet." The Mold of Yancy - "She has taken vast numbers...
Twitter Tuesday

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - "Sega Toys says this is the right choice for those who just don't have the time for a real pet."

The Mold of Yancy - "She has taken vast numbers of Americans to a new place: politics without cynicism."

The Owl in Daylight - "...people with dementia have more erratic rhythms and less bright notes, while people with schizophrenia have more complex patterns in the music created by their brains."

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McNamara, ‘Human Computer’ and Pentagon Chief, Dead at 93
 
Scientists Use The AIDS Virus To Cure Cancer
 
Can You Come Up With A Science Fiction Book Cover Worse Than These?
 
]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:18:10 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-4.html The Minority Report - Through The Looking Glass, Darkly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/jvJPaSne0Mw/the-minority-report-through-the-looking-glass-darkly.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/the-minority-report-through-the-looking-glass-darkly.html Somewhere in UK Education, a meeting is taking place between IT Manager and two members of the Art department, who, for the sake of anonymity and sanity, we shall refer to as Tweedletwat and Tweedleshit. They are discussing the construction... IT Manager and two members of the Art department, who, for the sake of anonymity and sanity, we shall refer to as Tweedletwat and Tweedleshit. They are discussing the construction of a new online system, which impinges on the workload of Palmer Eldritch. Eldritch works at a neighouring desk in the same office but is not part of the meeting. He can, however, hear the entire discussion...

IT Manager - I mean, what we've got at the moment is Joan Vice-Principal dreams up an idea, Peter Vice-Principal dreams up an idea, lots of people are all dreaming up ideas. Anything's possible, the issue is time and resources.

Tweedletwat - Yeah, so if we said...what we were after...

IT Manager -  That's what we need, what you said just then - explaining what you want.

Tweedletwat - [plainly not listening] Yeah...yeah, we wondered if everyone would want this, make it for everyone. Make it generic...

IT Manager - And there's also the issue that when the new database arrives, all these sytems will stop working until they're pointed at the new database. [Tweedletwat and Tweedleshit burst into faux-knowledgable laughter]

IT Manager - Everyone's having ideas at the moment and the only person we have to do the work is Palmer. Palmer is the bottleneck.

Tweedletwat - 'Bottleneck?'

Tweedleshit - Yeah. He's a fleshy bottle.

]]> Philip K Dick The Minority Report Work palmer_eldritch Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:49:17 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/the-minority-report-through-the-looking-glass-darkly.html PKD-Day 3 - The Mukherjee Collection http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/LSktnCqx5Jg/pkdday-3-the-mukherjee-collection.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/pkdday-3-the-mukherjee-collection.html The estimable Dr. Souvik Mukherjee has put up a few photos and video from the recent third PKD celebration day at Nottingham Trent University. Head over here and play 'guess the Dick-Head'. You may also care to wonder who attended...


The estimable Dr. Souvik Mukherjee has put up a few photos and video from the recent third PKD celebration day at Nottingham Trent University. Head over here and play 'guess the Dick-Head'.

You may also care to wonder who attended in person and who sent their robant.

]]> Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:26:56 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/pkdday-3-the-mukherjee-collection.html Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/6NzPvMZMDiw/w-3.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-3.html Dark-Haired Girl Day We Can Build You - "A remarkably lifelike Audio-Animatronics figure of President Barack Obama enters the spotlight..." The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally...
Dark-Haired Girl Day

We Can Build You - "A remarkably lifelike Audio-Animatronics figure of President Barack Obama enters the spotlight..."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."

A Scanner Darkly - "Sure, you might find out Bob in accounting takes a really long lunch, but do you really need to spend $20,000 and piss off your entire workforce to prove that?"

Faith Of Our Fathers - "The smile-evaluating software takes a picture of Keihin employees every morning and assigns smile values to various parts of the face. It then adds those values and delivers a smile scan score."

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Buy Robert Anton Wilson's medical marijuana card
 
Reality show gives points to clerics for converting Atheists
 
]]> Books Current Affairs Philip K Dick palmer_eldritch Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:12:48 +0100 http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-3.html Which PKD Story Are We In Today ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Frolix_8/~3/fr6GI1X-Rbg/w-2.html http://fraser.typepad.com/frolix_8/2009/07/w-2.html The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "If this protein boosts visual memory in humans, the implications are staggering." Survey Team - "There’s also a possibility that Earth life is Mars life." Sales Pitch - "The ASA banned the ad...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "If this protein boosts visual memory in humans, the implications are staggering."

Survey Team - "There’s also a possibility that Earth life is Mars life."

Sales Pitch - "The ASA banned the ad on the grounds it linked alcohol with seduction and enhancing confidence and told the company it could not use the "Unleash your wild side" strapline in future campaigns."

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The Future Of The U.S. Government, According To Science Fiction
 
The Worst Fake Cities On Earth
 
New Study Proves Smoking Pot Does Not Make You Crazy
 
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