Category Archives: Technology

Bot Builders of the World

Posted on May 19, 2018 by

Most of the robots in the Mega Man series are made by Dr. Light or Dr. Wily, or both of them together. After all, self-aware robots aren’t something just anyone can make, even in that world. There are a few … Continue reading →

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Wily Science

Posted on April 30, 2018 by

Having just recently attended a Kevin Geeks Out show about mad science, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some prominent mad scientists in video games. There are a lot of them, many in games I’m … Continue reading →

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Delete Your Account

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

I don’t plan on deleting my Facebook account. Yes, I’m bothered by how much data they have on me, but I’m also lazy. And I’m not sure how much of it can really be used in a malicious way. Maybe … Continue reading →

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Money Makes the World Go Askew

Posted on January 6, 2018 by

I’m constantly seeing stuff about Bitcoin, although admittedly a significant amount of it is jokes about how no one can understand it. I’m not sure why play money invented by smug tech geeks really deserves national attention; we might as … Continue reading →

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The Best of Inventions

Posted on November 10, 2017 by

If you’ve read the Oz books, you might remember Smith and Tinker as the creators of Tik-Tok, as well as the Giant with the Hammer and, as per Rachel Cosgrove Payes, the Hundred-Year Alarm Clock. I’ve written about them before … Continue reading →

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Automa-Tons of Fun

Posted on September 27, 2017 by

During a discussion of Ozma of Oz at the most recent OzCon International, Lee Speth proposed that, while Tik-Tok was not the first mechanical man in modern literature, he was perhaps the first artificial intelligence. L. Frank Baum himself had … Continue reading →

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Everybody’s Doing It, the Jean-Luc Picard

Posted on April 30, 2017 by

We’re up to the Star Trek films using the cast of The Next Generation, where they drink Romulan Pepsi instead of Klingon Coke, and a British guy playing a French guy is the captain of the Enterprise. I think this … Continue reading →

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