Robonaut 2

Should humanoid robots be sent into outer-space with human astronauts? I chime in today on Wired Science.

My Kanye West-esque Critique of Transformers for Wired Magazine

Transformers don't care about people -- any kind of people. I wrote a quick article for Wired about why Transformers rock because they don't want to either be people or kill people. They've got their own damn problems.

Of course, I saw the latest movie preview today and it's all about how some Transformers want to "protect" humans and some want to "destroy" humans. That's what cracks me up about humans -- it's always all about us... But it's a movie, so what are you going to do?

WIRED Magazine Rave Award

How to Survive a Robot Uprising won a Rave Award from Wired Magazine. Over the months, the book quietly made the rounds at Wired and they evidently loved it. So did their families. Chris Anderson (the editor-in-chief) mailed over a fantastic drawing of the book's cover made by his five-year-old. It's on my refrigerator. I'm pretty much holding that kid responsible for my winning the award.


The awards ceremony was also a lot of fun. Grey Goose vodka was a sponsor of the event, which is the main reason that I talked to everybody and their mother. Literally. I spoke to Akiva Schaffer's mom for like, half an hour. (He's one of the Lonely Island guys working for Saturday Night Live.) It was just a wonderful drunken nerd-o-rama, with CEOs from iFilm.com and Second Life and the guy who made the World of Warcraft video game. Later, people blogged about the amazing dinner, but I never shut up long enough to pay attention.

my WIRED review is strong

My book was reviewed in Wired magazine (bottom of page) this month and... they liked it so much they gave me four and a half blue thingies. For those of you with no math skill -- that's almost half a deuce!