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LAMarlowe — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:04:48 GMT

I agree that the audio player on the "How to Speak Hip" link is very cool. After some research, it appears to be a Wimpy, here: http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_rave.html
using a Tube skin, here: http://www.wimpyplayer.com/skins/

No word yet on if there is any cost involved; perhaps you can just promise to gladly repay them on Tuesday.

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LAMarlowe — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:19:45 GMT

Re: sexiest alien robot. I nominate Number 6 from Battlestar Galactica. Bio here: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Number_Six
nice pic here: http://imdb.com/media/rm3795752960/ch0008086

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John — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:51:42 GMT

They don't get sexier than Blackarachnia, she was designed after an Asian stripper!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackarachnia

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Michelle, New York, NY — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:00:50 GMT

thanks for the shout-out - you might also check out the nubrella - http://shefinds.com/blog/index.php/weblog/comments/umbrella_not_of_the_rihanna_stand_under_variety/

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Mark Payton, Claremont, NH — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:54:47 GMT

Number six on Battlestar Gallactica.

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David, IL — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:52:58 GMT

Sexy alien robot? How about V'ger from the first Star Trek motion picture? Or still in the Star Trek universe, the Borg Queen? (Although she doesn't really turn me on, she still probably qualifies as "sexy." Then again, she's really a cyborg and not a robot.)

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Alex, Overland Park, KS — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:24:44 GMT

Well the T-X Terminator from Terminator 3 comes to mind as an answer, but she's not made by "non-humans from not earth" she's made by non-humans (which passes your test for alien) but she was made on earth.
And she's certainly a sexy robot.
Women might argue then that Arnold's terminator would be a correct answer too.

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Barbara Virginia Beach, VA — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:47:33 GMT

Six on Battlestar Galactica?

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Howlin' Hobbit, Seattle, WA — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:18:46 GMT

Re: the ridiculous recoil on that rifle. The video reminded me of when I was involved with the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). They had an ongoing contest to design things they called "pandybats." These were weapons that had at least an equal chance of doing damage to the wielder as they did to the target.

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Ken Valentine, Neerlandia, Alberta — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:53:50 GMT

What about the female robot from the 1927 Fritz Lang movie "Metropolis"?

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Greg, Athens, AL — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:11:57 GMT

I was trying to figure out exactly what it is that makes the creepy girl look so creepy. The best answer I could come up with is that she looks almost real (the graphics are amazing), but there are just a few subtle things about her that don't look quite real (her smile, in particular). I think it's that "almost-but-not-quite real" quality that makes her look so creepy.

As for the sexy alien robot, apart from some of the Cylons on BSG (the Sharon series in particular -- WAY sexier than the Number Sixes, in my opinion), there were some sexy androids in the original Star Trek. The sexiest of all was, Andrea from "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (she was made on an alien planet using alien technology by another android who had the memory and personality of a human -- I'm not sure if that disqualifies her or not). There's also the androids from "I, Mudd" (who supposedly came from the Andromeda galaxy) -- if memory serves, the Alice series were the sexiest.

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Wendy M., Grand Prairie, TX — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:12:36 GMT

About the Bean Boozled Jelly Bellys...I am a math teacher, and I used them for a probability experiment with my 6th graders. I mixed a box of those into a package of normal Jelly Belly beans, we made our predictions, then every kid was given the opportunity to try a bean. Apparently, the vomit ones and the baby wipes ones were the worst of the bunch, but that is going on my students' responses. At 1 to 5 odds, I wasn't willing to risk it.

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Claude, Baltimore, MD — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:17:35 GMT

You could easily make an argument for the androids in the old Star Trek episode of "I, Mudd". The original series weren't built by humans, and the ones we see were built by each other. For that matter, there's the character of Andrea from the "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" episode. From what we know, Andrea existed before Roger Korby got there.

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Lee Keller King, Sugar Land, Texas — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:13:47 GMT

Hmmm. Why was the one guy at about 1:28 shooting a falling block rifle, while everybody else was shooting a bolt action?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Punishing recoil!

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kevin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:10:38 GMT

Well, OK ... not a true robot, but certainly semi-robotic and very sexy:

Seven of Nine

If you have to ask who that is, then you have no business running this contest.

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Meg, Topeka, KS — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:09:51 GMT

RE: BeanBoozled - Is JK Rowling getting a cut of the sales on those? 'Cause they sound an awful lot like Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean to me.

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Steve, AR — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:58:12 GMT

C3PO

Just kidding.

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Dave — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:22:44 GMT

While you were probably going for that BG reference, I'm voting for the guy who nominated Blackarachnia to win...altohugh probably only a few of us would get it! And the char was always slinking around too - perfect! Arcee (get it?), one of the few other females in the Transformers universe, is never even remotely sexy, and the successor to BA was a flower - not sexy!

Drawing a blank, but I was only thinking of female ones. For male, people could possibly find Bishop of Alien fame attractive, right? Or Data?

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Chuck, Summerville, SC — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:19:50 GMT

What about the Martian built robot from "Mars Attacks"? I'm not sure if she was sexy, technically, since she was clearly not quite right, but she did get Martin Short to show her the "Kennedy Room" in the White House!

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matt, dc — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:14:28 GMT

What about Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner? Wasn't she technically an alien since replicants were declared illegal on Earth?

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Matt, Nashua, NH — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:49 GMT

Number six from Battlestar Galactica doesn't qualify. The Cylons were made by humans.

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Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:33:58 GMT

Arcee from (the original) Transformers. The better half will be so proud.

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Laurah in NY — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:56:44 GMT

Not much into sci-fi, but Seven of Nine comes to mind. And wasn't Barbarella a robot?

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Ray Brady, NYC — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:21:21 GMT

If you allow comic books as a source, I could probably come up with a dozen examples of sexy alien robots. Here's one called Praxagora:

http://www.comicvine.com/praxagora/42334/

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Jon Perry, Indianapolis, IN — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:04:40 GMT

To Meg from Topeka, when the Potter series started to take off, 2000-2001 time frame. Jelly Belly actually had a set called Bertie Bott's Every Flavored beans. Instead of the typical plastic bags they came red cloth bags. I remember Grass and Sardine as being two of the more interesting flavors.

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Dan, Clinton, WA — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:56:50 GMT

Regarding the 'Congressional Pig Book'. Most of these appropriations seem to be very reasonable, normal amounts for important and useful projects. I'm sure there is some pork in there, but CAGW's standards for 'pork' seem to be way too loose.

Quite a lot is for infrastructure -- which seems reasonable considering some of the horror stories we heard after the I-35 bridge failure. Another big chunk is for defense and military construction.