BILL PAXTON: ITS FAR FROM GAME OVER, MAN

The AV Club has posted a great interview with Bill in their Random Roles column, and in it, he reflects on many of the iconic characters that he's portrayed including "Chet" from Weird Science, "Hudson" from Aliens, his six year run on TVs Big Love and most recently as "Randall McCoy" in Kevin Costner's Hatfield and McCoys miniseries.  Oh, Hudson....
Read the interview here:

CONTROLLING ROBOTS WITH YOUR MIND-TODAY

 When I first saw Honda's Mind-Machine Interface years ago, I knee-jerked. In almost the same moment I went from "Whoa!" (excited), to "Whoa." (anxious).  The beneficial applications seem obvious, but what other applications, not so benign, might this technology find it's way into?

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SPACEX LAUNCHES DRAGON INTO ORBIT!

 At 3:44 a.m. SpaceX successfully launched its Dragon capsule into low Earth orbit atop its Falcon 9 rocket and in doing so, became the first private company in history to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. It's kind of a big deal.

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