Category Archives: television

Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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My Lost Download

April 6, 2007 – 8:56 am

I received an email yesterday with the puzzling title “iTunes: Your Lost Download”. Needless to say, I was eager to figure out what the hell this was supposed to mean. I wasn’t aware of any download that had been “lost” in the process of me downloading it. I afforded a slight thought to the fact [...]

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