"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Boing Boing relays the news that Aging Japan builds robot to look after elderly:
A Japanese-led research team said it had made a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.
All I can say is, I hope those old people have Old Glory Insurance.
Update: Scrolling down just a little, I realize that Boing Boing already made that particular reference. My bad.
From today’s Writer’s Almanac:
Hawthorne began the novel shortly after he was fired from his position at the Salem Custom House, and spent almost all of his time working on it from June 1949 through February 1850.
Yes, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a time-traveler. Little-known fact: he was actually one of the first incarnations of Doctor Who.
(Yes, yes, I know. It’s a typo. It might even be fixed by the time you see this link. Bah. You’re no fun anymore.)