Dark Roasted Blend presents a fun collection of photos and pulp art featuring women and robots:

I want a baby Dalek like the one the model is holding.

This one is dedicated to Andrew at 423Smith. Too bad the guy in the video doesn’t have red hair!

hat tipI Had Outs via F Train

Robots Robots Robots…and more robots! It’s a Friday robot-a-rama on Dark Roasted Blend - my choice for the Awesome Blog of the Month (club).

Each day Dark Roasted Blend posts a new thrilling wonder running the gamut from serious to humorous - be sure to check out the Nuns with guns (Feb. 27) or the World Imbalances Maps (Mar. 5).

Something fun for Friday - enjoy the ride!

Looking for the perfect gift for your robot companion? How about a robot dolly?

Found this site via BoingBoing.

Proving that there’s a convention for everything, Roboexotica is taking place right now in Vienna, Austria. The “festival,” as the organizers call it, cheekily explores the role of mechanized beings — called “cocktail robots” — in alcoholic drinking establishments…which actually might make it the best convention pretty much ever.

Chapok is one of around 30 robots at Vienna’s annual Roboexotica, which showcases how home-built machines deal with the modern pastime of hanging out in bars.

Robots were invited to demonstrate their skills in categories like mixing cocktails, serving drinks and snacks, bar conversation and smoking cigarettes and cigars.

“It’s all about the flair, the atmosphere and the personality that a robot can have,” said Magnus Wurzer, ducking a bunch of cocktail cherries launched by a robot in one corner of the hall to another holding a drink at the other end.

The cherries miss their target and hit onlookers.

“The robots shouldn’t be efficient,” Wurzer said. “They shouldn’t behave like they were in a factory, they should be cultured and urbane.”

!!! There’s more on the Roboexotica site, but unfortunately no discussion of the “Return of the Jedi” scene where R2 serves drinks on Jabba’s sail barge.

CHINESE government officials are planning a Bruce Lee theme park, complete with a rollercoaster that emits the martial arts actor’s signature grunts and screams on high-speed bends.

According to local reports, the park will be patrolled by Bruce Lee “mannequin robots”, radio-controlled from within a giant statue of the late star. Read More…

I’ll have to make a trip out there before the micro-chips in the manneguin robots go haywire. Speaking of Robots, we have a new category at 423 - yes you guessed it - the ROBOTS category. Enjoy.

He’s done a bunch of other flipbook movies too.

Here is a great little video clip from Futureworld (the sequel to Westworld).

p.s: this movie has the best “worst” dream sequence. (more on that from Andrew in his review…)

In other Westworld news - Rumor has it that a new version of this CLASSIC film will be produced in 2007. Why oh why do they have to go and remake perfectly good movies? Have we not learned anything from Psycho, Planet of the Apes and Charlie & Chocolate Factory (to mention a few)? Where are the new ideas? C’mon people.

If spending your day reading blogs still leaves you with a spare few minutes, check out the Wolfram Tones website - another time-consuming site to keep you from your work.

Create a new ringtone for your mobile or the next top 40 hit in the UK.

Courtesy of Memepool.com.

I know you’ve been anxiously awaiting this post, unsure of what to dress up as for Halloween and time is running out. Well, the wait is now over. OYG has just posted a wonderful selection of Halloween masks for you to cover up your scary face!

Lots more to choose from!