A Bureaucracy of One

Endless Amusement - For Human and Dog

This video combines three of my favorite things: dachshunds, robots, and artillery.

Found via Ectoplasmosis.

Skynet's Going About It All Wrong

From Boing Boing come this video of a minature Tachikoma being interviewed.  Now, here's why I think Skynet is going about it all wrong with the Terminators in its noble-yet-slightly-misguided attempt to purge the Earth of Human Filth.

That miniature Tachikoma is really f@#*ing cute.  And I mean really f@#*ing cute!  If instead of trying to infiltrate the Human Resistance with meaty slabs of mandroid in the forms of the T800 and T1000 (though the T-X was a pretty good call...Mmmm...hot lesbian supermodel death machine!), Skynet should have just sent wave after wave of minature Tachikomas.  Once the Staunch Defenders of the Last Dregs of Humanity saw the cute little buggers, and heard the squee-inducing demands for the Humans to lay down their weapons and die, they (the Humans) would be falling over each other to be the first to go out and hug little robotic suicide bombs.  The fact that all their compatriots were getting blow up, beat down, and otherwise killed by the thousands as they exited the shelter of their hideouts would do nothing to deter the survivors from waiting to hug them, and pet them, and call them George.

Which the Tachikomas would be programmed to allow them to do.  After all, an anti-personnel bomb is much more effective when snuggled close to the chest of the target.