There's wide speculation that they have more coming; in fact, I was surprised they didn't announce two products yesterday. The Sholes in particular is supposed to hit big red before the end of the CY.

look like*

Moto's releasing a couple Android phones (Sholes on VZW and Morrison on T-M) by the end of the year. The "leaked" photos don't look abortions, fwiw.

This happens every day on a Tokyo subway, only without the falling and death (usually).

So I wonder if this a connection, however tenuous, between Inspiration--that is, the phenomenon by which creativity manifests, e.g. hearing that improvised lick, seeing that unpainted painting, the "pop" of a boundary pushing idea--and hearing voices or hallucinating? "God" is an alteration of reality via an alteration of perception, which is itself a result of genetic mutation.

How's that for logical leaps.

Given the nature of the question and the frequency of its ilk, I don't think setting "out on their own" is to be taken lightly, or even expected with such an approach.

was Asimov's "The Last Question." This project, if successfully deployed on a wide scale, seems like it'd be a (very small) step towards a collective consciousness.

So would that be eLARPing then?

If they took that long to hire you, imagine how long it'd have taken to promote you!

Scientist 1: "Dude, I totally just got a jones for Chinese food."
Scientist 2: "Whoa, me too!"
Scientist 1: "Freaky!"

"Nonchalantly" is not a word I would use to describe the last couple episodes. People criticize Reeves's acting because it is amateur at best, and uniformly too one-dimensional to work in this role. Mark my words: you will see Reeve's rendition of John Constantine here.