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Written by Mark Jacob | Tribune staff reporter

Robots that are alarmingly humanlike, such as this traffic controller in Tokyo, seem too creepy and do not elicit empathy, says Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. (David Guttenfelder, Associated Press / April 17, 2007
The movie “Wall-E,” a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine [...]

Written by CRACKED Readers
Children are stupid. We know it’s not their fault, but it doesn’t stop us from laughing at their innocent, wide-eyed idiocy.
With this in mind, we asked you to depict some of history’s most significant events, as they would be drawn by a five year-old child. We offered $50 to the winner, and [...]

Written by thinksimplenow
Photo by Jordan Fraker. See more of his work here.
Can you remember the last time you stepped into a room full of strangers and felt that self-conscious and awkward feeling rush over you? Or that heart thumping moment when you wanted to ask someone on a date, but were too shy to [...]

Written by filmwad
Intro paragraphs? Where we’re going, we don’t need…intro paragraphs.
12. You can’t pay attention to the movie
Dates are pretty goddamned stressful experiences. You’re constantly trying to figure out how to act, what to say, where to put your arms, and if and when it’s okay to try and kiss her. They’re absurdly complex, needlessly [...]

Written by Nivair H. Gabriel
It’s happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn’t expect. Our [...]

Written by Sean P. Aune
We’ve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know you’ll enjoy, whether you’ve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.
We cover everything from useful [...]

Written by BEN JOSEPH
1984
WINSTON: Don’t tell the Party, but sex is way better than totalitarianism.
EVERYONE: Surprise! We’re the Party.
WINSTON: Oh, rats.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion [...]

Written by Larry Getlen
I was in my mother’s belly as she sat in the waiting room of the abortionist’s office. Dr. Sunshine was his code name. I was fifty feet from the drainpipe, and she saw a painting on the wall that reminded her of her mother, who had recently died. She took that as [...]

Written by Ransom Riggs
Birds do it, bees do it (we think), even educated monkeys do it. So let’s do it, people. Let’s fall asleep. (The musical portion of this blog is over; thanks for indulging.) But seriously: we’ve talked about the whys of taking naps on the blog before - they improve mood, creativity, memory [...]

Written by Mitch Martin
Even booze hounds need to have goals in life so, I decided to come up with a list of the 10 things that every true drinker should accomplish before they die. Not every item on the list requires drinking massive quantities of alcohol. Once you have covered every item on this list [...]

Written by Michael Calore & Gina Trapani
Firefox 3 - available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday - is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while it’s not perfect, it comes pretty close.
The open-source web browser is the fastest and most secure version of Firefox yet. Significant [...]

Mariner Calc is about to come to the iPhone with App Store to edit Excel spreadsheets directly on your iphone.

Written by Cory Cavin
As a wee child I remember spending every Sunday poring over the lively colored newspaper, reading up on my kid comedy that was ‘the funny papers’. As an obsessive compulsive lad I forced myself to read all the hilarity laden newsprint, (and still in my childhood mind wondered why I was reading [...]