the upcoming metaphor post (which is part of this class):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8
This first is just video which (though filmed prior) relates and refutes the current “double rainbow” meme.
Stupid California Police Warn Parents of Pedobear, the ‘Pedophile Mascot’ (Updated)
This one includes, among other things, references to 4chan, /b/, a police district with a literal interpretation of agressive satire, video from a news broadcast, and a not-to-be-missed police broadsheet.
both originally sourced from this Slashdot thread.
more coming as I locate….
I’ve always thought this interesting, from a tech standpoint: Big Dog / Boston Dynamics and here.
Along similar lines with the Big Dog, in terms of self-assessing and autonomous movement is this.