Photo by Shiny Things. Can you hear it? The cheerful whirring of servo motors… the friendly clank of metal limbs… the jolly hiss of a nozzle dispersing a paralyzing nerve agent to neutralize possible biological adversaries—why, it’s our friend Robo-James, here to lay down the binary code at Tuned In while my lazy, carbon-based butt [...]

After the phony fireworks and the phony singing, how could Chinese Olympic organizers possibly top themselves? With phony Chinese! OK, that’s a slight distortion. But a slighter one than, we’re learning in dribs and drabs, pervaded the production of the ceremonies. According to Reuters, a segment of the festivities that the ceremony’s media guide described [...]