{"id":242,"date":"2008-04-05T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-04-05T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T17:25:12","slug":"saturday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Saturday links"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only taken about 40 years, but it looks like we’ve progressed<\/em> from the entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a> animatronics, to the ability to rent female robots<\/strong>, ostensibly for product demonstration. From Kokoro<\/a>, the company responsible,<\/p>\n

Absolutely looks like a real human! The “Actroid” humanoid, developed with a cutting-edge technology attract you with its human look-alike appearance and astonishing high expression ability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freaky.<\/a> Can anyone say… Westworld<\/a>?<\/p>\n

# # #<\/center>I wasn’t aware of this, but the late architect Phillip Johnson evidently had quite the fascist tendencies in the 1930s. Ed Driscoll<\/a> has made a ten-minute video highlighting Johnson’s escapades, and the apparent manner such activities were later swept under the rug. Driscoll reports that Johnson, upon being allowed to accompany the Nazis into Poland, in 1939, wrote to a friend,<\/p>\n

We saw Warsaw burn and Modlin being bombed. It was a stirring spectacle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/embed>A short list of Johnson’s buildings<\/a> includes:<\/p>\n