A Commonplace Book

A tremendously sweet Chaplinesque robot romantic comedy. One appreciation here .

If you like 14th c. robots (and who doesn’t?) Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale gives us not only a brass robot horse controlled by turning a pin in i...

Steve Muhlberger has an interesting post on 14th c. robots , particularly a mechanical angel that greeted Richard II for his coronation in L...

The clock is, if considered truly, An instrument very fair and very notable, And it is also agreeable and profitable; For night and day it t...

From time to time I will blog satire. As a service to my readers, such posts include the label “We don’t need no steenkin’ footnotes” to avo...

Peter Jackson plans to film The Hobbit and a sequel . The sequel will be a stretch, because Tolkien did not actually write a lot of details ...

Here’s what the Company of St. Michael has evolved over several iterations to adapt his rules to foot combat in the Society for Creative Ana...

..but is suspected of cheating .

Here is a dramatic picture of Phoenix descending against the backdrop of the six mile wide, snow frosted Heimdall crater. ">Here i...

This picture reminds me that we humans are steadily building up robotic infrastructure on and around Mars; three orbiters, two rovers and a ...