Two items:

Japanese robot suit to let paralyzed move again.
The robotic suit, which slips over a person’s upper body and arms, weighs only 1.8 kilograms (four pounds).When a person who suffered a stroke moves his or her active arm while wearing the suit, the paralyzed other arm will make the same motion by stretching and bending [...]

GideonTech: Top Ten Worst Portrayals of Technology in a film
I’m not very happy with this list. Notably absent: The Net and Enemy of the State. Also, to this day I am envious of Boris’ ability to type with one hand.

Overheard on NPR: Potential recruits spend four times as long on average (roughly 16 minutes) talking to Sgt. Star than they do talking to a human recruiter in a chat room.

This video is awesome, but I have no idea what’s going on. ToliverChap, d’ya think you can help?
The Inner Life of a Cell 

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google
By Bruce Sterling
And Shakespeare. I used to hate Shakespeare, because the teachers would park us in front of the webcam terminals, turn on the Shakespeare lessons and leave the building. But then, somehow, they showed us Macbeth, a play which actually MEANS something to us. [...]

Found in the alley behind Expresso Royale:

Item: The effects of oxytocin on the brain.
In a risky investment game, experimental subjects given nasally administered oxytocin displayed “the highest level of trust” twice as often as the control group. Subjects who were told that they were interacting with a computer showed no such reaction, leading to the conclusion that oxytocin was not merely [...]

(21:59:29) HappyEpsilon: i can’t believe you post3ed a blog patting yourself on the back
(22:00:11) drcrawl: it wasn’t just patting myself on the back
(22:01:29) drcrawl: I was patting myself on the back for posting the videos, sure
(22:01:34) drcrawl: but I mean, that took effort
(22:01:38) drcrawl: and I was proud of it
(22:01:43) drcrawl: I think legitimately
(22:01:44) HappyEpsilon: [...]

so good to me.
Found a new link for the blogroll: Loving the Machine. Lots of mobile plastic goodies, mostly from Japanese robots (of course). The link was provided by Engadget for this article:

Robot hospital opens in Osaka

The Akazawa Roboclinic admitted its first in-patient recently, a humanoid shipped by courier from Bunkyo Ward in Tokyo. The [...]

I’ve had a few brief moments in the bright internet sun in my almost two year old blog. I got quoted in Slate once, and I’ve lured a few high-profile philosophers to battle it out on my pages.
I’m somewhat proud of these moments, and they have generated a small amount of traffic for me, [...]