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Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell's Message Board. BoingBoing reader Avi Solomon says:
Edgar
Mitchell,former Apollo 14 Astronaut maintains a message board where he
answers questions put to him by the public. He is one of the few Apollo
astronauts who is in public contact and the message board is a rare
chance to put your own question to a man who walked on the moon. The
thread I link to is one in which Dr. Mitchell discusses the impact of
seeing earth from space. Many other threads on the message board relate
to interesting details of the Apollo missions.
Link [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Should Robots Have Human Faces?. BoingBoing reader Roland Piquepaille says:
A robotics designer named David Hanson, who lives in Dallas, Texas, says yes, according to this story
from the Associated Press. But can you imagine that this guy gave his
latest robot, designed to resemble his girlfriend, a name like Hertz?
Does he think his girlfriend is for rent? Quite amazing! Besides
choosing such a name, why is this such a controversial idea to make
robots looking very much like human beings? Because the theory goes
like this: "humans have a positive psychological reaction to robots
that look somewhat like humans. But if a robot is made to look very
realistic but somehow isn't quite right (it has an odd smile, or it
doesn't blink, for example) it seems grotesque instead of comforting."
You'll find more details and an astonishing picture in this overview.
Link [Boing Boing Blog]
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Andy Warhol and the Commodore Amiga 1000. 
Artnode.org has uncovered and posted a fascinating mid-'80s interview from Amigaworld
magazine in which Andy Warhol discusses his relationship with his
Commodore Amiga 1000, his experiments using it in portrait pieces of
Debbie Harry and Dolly Parton, and his predictions about the future of
computer art.
BoingBoing reader Jose Luis of Barcelona-based blog elastico.net,
says "It's always fun finding this sort of stuff from the past, and
wondering what would have happened if he hadn't died a year later."
Link to elastico.net post, Link to 2 MB PDF of the original magazine article.
[Boing Boing Blog]
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