Anyone who had a heart would take me

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'This "you are only a robot" syndrome will be some kind of boundary across which a human must pass to feel love to its fullest extent for a robot, though in the case of certain groups within our society, crossing that boundary will seem perfectly natural. Those who prefer to relate to computers rather than to humans will doubtless find it no problem at all. Nor will many nerds, many social outcasts, and those who will be only too happy to find someone, almost anyone, who exhibits affection for them.'

David Levy, Love & Sex With Robots (2008, p130)

I'm a loser baby (so why don't you kill me)

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For more information about Nadler's 'DSM-IV Pregnancy Test' device, please contact Nads himself.

So far around the bend

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Nadler's orginal drawing for The idPod

And the detailed open-source techinal bumf on how the software actually works (just in case you feel like adding it to some headwear of your choice).

Home

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Thanks to everyone who came to the housewarming.

And can you see the means without the end, in the random, frantic action that we take?

[Soundtrack: cooked & raw] [Click on image to enlarge]

Specjewcles

Nadler's Specjewcles are based, I believe, on assertions made by Jung in his 1918 essay "The Role of the Unconscious" in which he states:

"As a rule, the Jew lives in amicable relationship with the earth, but without feeling the power of the chthonic. His receptivity to this seems to have weakened with time. This may explain the specific need of the Jew to reduce everything to its material beginnings; he needs these beginnings in order to counterbalance the dangerous ascendency of his two cultures. A little bit of primitivity does not hurt him; on the contrary, I can understand very well that Freud's and Adler's reduction of everything psychic to primitive sexual wishes and power drives has something about it that is beneficial and satisfying to the Jew, because it is a form of simplification."

I've never really been able to warm to Jung; I wonder why.

What's particularly galling of course is that some of what he says is quite true. I have very little feeling for 'the power of the chthonic'.

Blessing in disguise

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Well, a nation turns its back and gags

The last panel of this piece may need a little explanation (at the risk of killing the joke by explaining it).

Know thyself

I've slightly changed my Nadler character. Having seen Guru Nadler in the flesh last night, I realised that glasses are probably as important to his persona as my own. A spectacles-less Nadler just ain't a Nadler.

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[Click here to see Nadler's original drawing of The Switch]

All creations, in order to thrill, must be able to exist in the radical absence of every empirically determined role

Nadler has been designing these Calvinoesque creations for years.
It's good to see he's now building them.
I believe he's going to take this one onto Dragon's Den.

Thus each day in the sacred place they kneel

The trick to juggling demands is determining which are made of rubber and which are made of glass

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And the scripture was fulfilled

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering

"Since our genes were evolved primarily in societies which were much more collectivist than individualist....we evolved to create rankings and to obey them, and the modern Wannabe individualists who competes fiercely to rise up the rankings ahead of his or her 'natural' position is flouting instinct. Likewise, it is 'unnatural' for us to have so many intense attachments and loyalties beyond our ascribed tribal ones [like the blogosphere?] and to keep breaking them by achieving new ones."
(Oliver James, Britain on The Couch, p325)