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A BBC report on the future of robots and ethics.

Sometime last quarter, I happened to come home early from Mason’s class and catch a show called Heroes. It runs Monday night on NBC, and it’s one of the best new shows I’ve seen in a while.

I missed about the first five minutes of the show, but at the end, the announcer said, in his dramatic grumble, that the most recent episode was available to watch online. So, for weeks, I would watch the show every Tuesday morning, until the show took a mid-season break, convienently coinciding with my break from school.

When I got back, I tried to watch the first new show the day after it aired, but my network had major problems that day, and it wouldn’t run smoothly at all. Eventually, I talked myself into buying the season pass from iTunes, and it was well worth it. Tuesday morning, when the new show is released, iTunes will automatically download each new episode. It’s been my first experience with buying content online, and I’ve enjoyed it. We still live with network connections and processors that haven’t yet anticipated what the internet is and will become. I look forward to a time when content is on demand at any time, from anywhere, but for now, having content on portable device ready to be viewed is alright.

But it makes you think: If live television programming goes away, or plays a diminished role, how would you find new content? If I hadn’t been home and caught the show that day, or if Fox didn’t put The Winner in between  The Simpsons and Family Guy, I probably never would have watched it in all it’s moderate humor.

Anyways, if you’ve got about 18 hours to kill, go to http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ and watch all 18 episodes. It’s just about the best show I’ve ever seen.

For the third fourth time now, I’ve had to moderate a comment from some spammer trying to post on a recent post, Transparency on the Internet.

And, I quote:

What follows is a long list of links that don’t even work. Of course, I’m just marking the comment as spam each time who- or whatever sends it, but it’s really, really annoying. I’ve heard some meathead proposals that the government start charging for sending email to help combat spam, but that violates the spirit of the internet, and is also irrelevant to this situation. Essentially, this is like some marketeer trying to place an advert in my own home, against my will. But what else can I do other than moderate incoming posts? It’s a sad world.

Last night I caught the second episode of Discovery Channel’s Future Car. This episode was about the design of the car of the future. Right off the bat, the show caught my attention when they had an interview with Luigi Colani.

In his interview, he discussed how design can get ahead of itself. If people aren’t ready for the change, they won’t be as accepting of it. He claims that as the primary reason he feels he’s so misunderstood.

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I got fed up trying to 2-D sketch my building for Environmental Branding, so I jumped into Google Sketch-up and threw together a quick comp, just to get the feeling for it. It makes me want to learn 3-D programs a little more, and maybe build out a full quality render for this project. Hell of a lot funner that way.

Okay, so a lot of stuff won’t be working on this blog for a while, because for some reason, wordpress messed up my whole site. I think it did something to the database it was running off of because it affected my entire server space. When I tried to access it, it kept trying to send me to http://localhost/.

Thanks to James, I was able to get this to go on as a clue as to what was happening:

It’s weird, because the site it mentions in between all the Japanese isn’t even my site. Any guess I can make as to what went wrong is only speculation.

My camera has been giving me issues recently. Today, I checked up on price for repair, $175. So, I must let go of the old, and welcome the new.

Should be arriving at the beginning of next month.