Why? Why in God’s name do they have to keep trying to make robots that are disturbingly lifelike and yet freaking scary? Why can’t they all be like those cute movie robots in Star Wars or the sweet, cuddly animatronic dancing dolls in Disneyland’s It’s A Small World? Whatever the sick, perverse reasons for these [...]

XKCD is not a Linux X-window program. Just to start with! XKCD is the phenomenally funny comic done by Randall Patrick Munroe, a degree-holder in physics who works for the United States NASA space program. It has become the official cartoon of social news culture, and a large share of geeks and hackers as well. [...]