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Matt Kirkland has stripped away the fluffy cuteness behind Elmo and other plush toys to reveal the creepy-looking robots underneath.

(via kottke)

More stories on which I am behind the crowd:

• Monkey’s with robotic arms. What more is there to know?
• Age is Wisdom. Really. Well, maybe really. The conditions: “If older people are taking in more information from a situation,” as the article suggests, “and they’re then able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge,” which the article doesn’t suggest, “they’re going to have a nice advantage.”
• We have two parallel but separate kinds of memory: “verbatim” and “gist.” This can explain how people so often believe things happened differently than they actually did. (via Marco)

So says “Wolcott”:

“One hundred years from now, dessert items are made by flash-freezing beads of cream with liquid nitrogen, then storing them in subzero conditions. People enjoy these treats with great regularity, and often remark upon how delicious they taste.”

Also of note: a dispatch from the robot dominated future. (via BB)

This video is very cool.

(via Andrew Sullivan, from whom I shameless stole the title.)