http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bgY8lQMFy4There are plenty of ways robots can kill us. A computer could malfunction and send nukes to every nation in the world, or an errant Roomba could get fed up with this cat. But the scariest robot takeovers are the ones in which a man-made AI robot revolts. There is something terrible and poetic about a creation turning on its master, and becoming the silicon overlord to all carbon-based life-forms.
By now you've probably seen or heard that this week's Phoenix is the Metal Issue -- and it should come as a pleasant surprise for any genre loyalist to learn that our staff hand-picked a badass painting by the prolific Ken Kelly as the issue's cover art (above). Though this dude has crafted iconic images of everyone from Conan the Barbarian to Tarzan to Vampirella, his most recognizable work is a pair of album covers he painted of KISS for 1976's Destroyer and 1977's Love Gun
With Doctor Who returning to TV with its midseason premiere and Chuck entering its final season, we're guaranteed some staple nerd fodder on TV this season; but, as usual, all eyes are on the fresh crop of pilots from the harvest. Though we're still mourning what's been chucked and shucked (Locke and Key would have been amazing, wouldn't it?), we must now set our sights on the spread on the table before us.
Can you smell it, Bostonians? Can you smell it in the air? That, my friends, is the scent of the end of summer. Soon, the thousands of students we have been missing (or perhaps not missing) will return; everything will be open later, as summer hours will end; but so will the long days, warm nights and dreamy endlessness of summer.
It's a bleak, bleak week in the US, Laser Orgians. With the economy taking a nose-dive and the threat of double-dip recession (which sounds more like JP Licks flavor of the month than a real thing but, woefully, it is the latter) it is time to distract our burdened minds with some good-old-fashioned escapism.
Time capsules are primarily produced as elementary school class projects, leaving history in the hands of archivists most concerned with the preservation of their Pokemon cards and A+ spelling tests -- not necessarily the best way to provide an accurate picture of life at a given moment.To get it right, you need a grander scale and better technology, which is exactly the combination director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott had on their side when they set out to create the user-generated documentary Life In A Day
It's finally here. People count down to this for months. As soon as the weather starts to change, it's fresh in everyone's minds -- the ritual, the camaraderie, the friends and families gathering together, all to celebrate overlarge cartilaginous fish with rows and rows of flesh-ripping teeth. Yes, ladies and gentlemen: it's Shark Week
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