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Mashable has a quick interview with Drupal creator Dries Buytaert.

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"Shiny app syndrome" and Gov 2.0. Why governments need to start with mobile sites, not native apps. This really goes for everyone. I hate it when a client or potential client comes in asking for an iPhone app when all they really want or need is a website that works well in the mobile environment. Apps are almost always too much French pastry and not enough Krispy Kreme.

I count the fact that I get quality self-aware robots must be stopped emails like the one below as my greatest accomplishment in life.

Robots will be in charge of the armed forces, our food supply and our medicine. And apparently be able to match our intellect - that says self aware to me. If the government is going to turn on us like this, it may be time to mobilize the insurgency - pro-human guerilla warfare is the only way.

Even worse, they're generating baby robots that can learn. Learn to be self aware. And in the meantime, convert the next generation of humans into their slaves.

Meg

PS - Based on my select usage of red flag keywords, this email is being scanned and read by government agents right now. I'm sorry to give you up like that. You and Josie may want to retire to your secret bunker for a while.

When we put our health into hands of robots we put our health into the hands of murderers. Muuurrrdddderrreerrrsss.

Fake Steve Jobs explains why Android is going to lose.

So even if Android was open, which it’s not, even then Google would not win, because closed always wins, except when the closed thing is Android, which is, in fact, closed, but still won’t beat us because we’re more closed than they are and the most closed system always wins. Look at Sun Microsystems versus Linux. Case closed.

Mashable has quick interview with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg focused mainly on creating a business based on open source software.

The biggest challenge for Open Source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. Traditional Open Source development models, like the Apache one, are not set up to do that. In server software options are good — in consumer web interfaces they’re a cognitive burden.

While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can’t win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product too.

It's bad enough that they made a dancing robot, but having humans as the backup dancers went too far. In the future, we will be the backup dancers to our robot overlords if things don't change.

Why Robots Are Learning Our Pain Threshold. Like we don't know the answer to that question. Self-aware robots must be stopped!

"A powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again," reports New Scientist, which broke the news of the mechanical rampage to an astonished world.

The pop-sci mag goes on to describe the robotic beatings in horrific detail. No fewer than six Slovenian boffins, all thought to be male, were struck "repeatedly on the arm" during the laboratory incident, in which a robot of a type normally employed in assembling vending machines went violently berserk and bludgeoned the men with an assortment of blunt instruments or sharp tools it had picked up using its powerful, motorised articulated arm.

Self-aware Balkan vending machine robots must be stopped. Thanks to @ellmcgirt for the heads up. Stay vigilant. Self-aware robots must be stopped!