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The Evil Robot Brain

Posted on 22 December 2009. Tags: bad robot, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Conditions and Diseases, dialectronic brain, evil robot, Health Medical Pharma, Jo Walton, nuts and bolts

Dr. Nuts and Bolts convinces Brainy, the robot with a dialectronic brain, to let him study his brain. In exchange, he will build a robot for Brainy that can destroy Gigantor!

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The American Ruling Class

Posted on 12 December 2009. Tags: altman film, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Barbara Ehrenreich, bradley allen, Bush Administration, cabinet secretaries, california institute of technology, career possibilities, Carnegie Corporation, Carter Administration, CBS News, Clinton Administration, corridors of power, editor lewis lapham, Ford Administration, George W. Bush, Harvard University, Hillary Rodham Clinton, hodding carter, hodding carter iii, James Baker, Jimmy Carter, money, musical satire, new york knicks, New York Times, peter g peterson, power, Presidency of Bill Clinton, reagan administration, ruling class, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Treasury, state department spokesman, t coleman, The New York Times Company, United States, walter cronkite, warburg pincus, Warren Christopher

Odd but interesting look at American power structures. You can fast forward through the musical parts. The world’s first dramatic-documentary-musical satire explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, the presence of an elite in our nominally democratic republic. Harper’s Magazine editor Lewis Lapham takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of [...]

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Akira

Posted on 01 December 2009. Tags: Entertainment Culture, Hughes brothers, Katsuhiro Otomo, neo tokyo, post war, Warner Bros.

Akira is set in the futuristic and post-war city of Neo-Tokyo in the year 2019. The restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, getting rid of much of the last half of the manga. Good webmaster movie? I think so. Anime is an acquired taste, though.

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