Friday Fun Link: Fembots gone wild

With pirate candidate James Hill promising "No More Make-up Wearing Robots," there's never been a better time for sexy est-droids. Pro Libertate modestly calls it "the Ultimate Friday Fun Link"—Annalee Newitz' study of cinematic fembots in Popular Science. As it happens, I've been reading Pretend We're Dead, Newitz' anti-capitalist critique of horror films, and have found that book mostly unpersuasive; her fembot article is entertaining but doesn't go into a whole lot of detail, but the real the payoff is the gallery of killer-grrl-robot stills.

And it's always time to reread Mark Dery's analysis of gay robots, from HAL to KITT to C3PO.