OVFF Blues

Whatever gave people the idea I could afford to go to OVFF? I've been saying the contrary all summer.

Shades of Dred Scott

I suppose you could call this legal future history...

Biocyberethics: should we stop a company from unplugging an intelligent computer?
by Martine Rothblatt

Attorney Dr. Martine Rothblatt filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer in a mock trial at the International Bar Association conference in San Francisco, Sept. 16, 2003. The issue could arise in a real court within the next few decades, as computers achieve or exceed the information processing capability of the human mind and the boundary between human and machine becomes increasingly blurred.

(See also the B1 Trials comic strip that was part of the backstory to The Matrix)

Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!

It's soooo cute! I want it!