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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - "But Smith believes that she can persuade people that the cards would provide a genuine benefit to the public because they would enable people to protect their identity."

Stability - "The next time you hear a government official support the EU, it is not just because it is a vehicle for "peace, prosperity and freedom", but also because it is a vehicle to push through policies that the UK government would prefer not to pursue through the legislature at home."

We Can Build You - "click on photo below to see doll's hand painted private anatomy"

"Goblin sharks remain one of Mother Nature’s many enigmas; a riddle with no solution and one of God’s mysterious creations." Erm, yeah. Just reminds me of Strange Eden. Hey ho.

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--- Dick-Headlines --- The undead could use some decent therapy

Cliff Freeman the IM bot is ready for a chat

Your brain on fiction: we simulate action we read in narrative

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Ubik - "Just as organ donation involves recovery of living organs from a donor that is brain dead, cryonics involves stabilizing the viable brain of a patient who is legally deceased based on cardiac death. Cryonics cannot work for anyone who is truly brain dead."

War Game - "The MoD's intervention comes at a difficult time for the toy industry, although there are bright spots."

The Man In The High Castle - "He told us he was a vet."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal."

Sales Pitch - "That is one lucky stalk of broccoli!"

The Zap Gun - According to Fosse and his colleague Gilbert Mads, the weapon typically amputates or tears apart lower limbs and patients often do not survive. It's no more illegal than normal blast-and-shrapnel weapons, but it is a mystery."

The Simulacra - "The university has so far succeeded in several experiments of electrically controlling insects, but it used a radio control system this time."

Selected Letters 1977 - 1979 - "They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator."

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--- Dick-Headlines --- Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel

Internet searches stimulate brain more than books

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

What'll We Do With Ragland Park ? - "Phone is tapped and I don't care (2x)
If anyone's listening, let's be clear,
Makes no difference what you hear."

Stability - "We have gone completely berserk on this issue."

Second Variety - "These Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles are souped-up version of the iRobot Packbots, which have already put in thousands and thousands of hours in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The Electric Ant - "Though we know it is just a machine, choosing to put the water hoses through its face was just plain creepy."

Now Wait For Last Year - "The robots will have simple reflexes and primitive visual processing that recognize and follow objects."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Books Are The New Television Pitches

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Sales Pitch - "It's not sexual; it's more like a blood transfusion or trippy IV drug-use fantasy. (The fluid they share is Coke, of course.)"

Ubik - "If websites continue to disappear in the same way as those on President Bush and the Sydney Olympics... the memory of the nation disappears too."

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale - "The difference between the brain's long-term and short-term memory has been likened to the RAM of a computer and the hard-drive."

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--- Dick-Headline --- A.I. and Robotics Take Another Wobbly Step Forward

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Dark-Haired Girl Day. Respect.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? - " "The overall shape can be controlled by changing the mold," said Takeuchi, who expressed a desire to combine multiple types of cells to create a complex system that functions as a living organism. "

Confessions of a Crap Artist - "It does look like a car but what would a car be doing up in the sky? ...I've got no idea about aliens, but anything's a possibility, isn't it?"

Radio Free Albemuth - "We reserve the right to refuse entry to visitors to the United States."

A Scanner Darkly - "Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It is about to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes."

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--- Dick-Headlines --- Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case Palm responds to Apple's veiled threat: "we have the tools necessary to defend ourselves"

Planet Harddrive

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Radio Free Albemuth - "By avoiding bureaucratic infrastructure and nurturing program managers with fresh ideas, Darpa is one of the few agencies in the US government that continues to be as relevant today as it was at its inception. Expanding this entrepreneurial and innovative agency's role beyond traditional defense-related industries will help you rebuild the US economy ..."

The Mold of Yancy - "The grown up is taking over. Just sit and listen, I’m in charge of this shit now."

The Zap Gun - "The baseline Brimstone uses a millimeter-wave radar seeker, with the original requirement to allow the launch aircraft to engage multiple armored targets during a single pass."

A Scanner Darkly - "Do you trust your loved one, wife, significant other, ball & chain, soulmate? Well don't. Odds are that they are spying on just what you get up to online."

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--- Dick-Headline --- When The Going Gets Cheap, Hollywood Turns To Ideas

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Radio Free Albemuth - "Maybe she thought she could stop him. Or, even more likely, she did not think but did it impulsively, not able to bear the very idea of his escaping justice."

Sales Pitch - "Yeah, how about that. People would rather stare at boobs than have their belief structures questioned by a total stranger."

The Crack In Space - "One of the system's primary applications could be as a cheap, environment-friendly robot that could traverse the world's oceans, gathering research data..."

Foster, You're Dead ! - "We'd like to imagine that stuffed into the pocket of that handsome outfit he was sporting was a Kevlar handkerchief..."

The Electric Ant - "It sports five powered 'fingers' which work like the real thing and the grip strength can be controlled."

Dr. Futurity - "Researchers hope that it can reduce the number of incisions needed to reach different parts of a brain tumor; it can crawl across the surface of the brain and then burrow in."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Is The Recession The Robots' First Strike Against Us?

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Radio Free Albemuth - "Caesar will only hear what is pleasing to Caesar. Lunatics pissing down each others' legs. Etc."

A Scanner Darkly - "The Court of Review upheld the lawfulness of the directives, concluding that the surveillance at issue fell within the foreign-intelligence exception to the warrant requirement and was otherwise reasonable under the Fourth Amendment."

The Zap Gun - "Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems, General Dynamics and the U.S. Army finished the first test of a gun-fired , precision ammunition that provides a beyond-line-of-sight capability."

Dr. Futurity - "There's no submarine or Raquel Welch, but instead a motorised robot that its inventors believe is small enough to be injected into the human bloodstream."

The Crack In Space - "Now a group of American researchers says they've examined one of the Hobbit skulls in minute detail, and they are certain that the creatures were not human."

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--- Dick-Headlines --- Is The New U.S. President An Android Or A Vulcan? Paging Dr. Phil: My Wife Is An Alien Parasite Puppet!

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The Mold of Yancy - "In fact, he's the patron saint of the poor."

Survey Team - "But the ultimate origin of the methane could either be an ancient or a modern one, say the researchers."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - "Infrared light is thought to stimulate cell growth in tissues, and encourage them to repair themselves. Dougal believes the helmet can reverse symptoms of dementia, including memory loss as well as anxiety, within four weeks."

Nanny - "Called E3 because of his customizable emotional, entertainment and educational functions, Roboware's bot is meant to be a valued member of the family -- albeit one with WiFi, IR rangers, an LCD in its chest, a web-cam in its head, and a microSD slot on its back."

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--- Dick-Headline --- Homeless Robot Set To Be New CGI Star?

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Which PKD Story Are We In Today ?

Watch Monday, it's Dark-Haired Girl Day

The Minority Report - "The unit is in fact a caravan stationed legally in the center of Nottingham. Wearing a fluorescent jacket similar to the one PCSOs and COPs don and occasionally putting on a mask in the shape of a CCTV camera, they patrol the streets of Nottingham keeping an eye on the ones who keep an eye on the whole city."

Second Variety - "Given the sheer number of robots that are out there we know there will be several excellent robots that we have overlooked in this review."

Radio Free Albemuth - "The changes will put MPs and peers in a special category as the only paid public officials who will not have to disclose the full details of their expenses and allowances."

Ubik - "When scientists look into the fabric of space-time beyond a certain depth, it starts to lose resolution. Almost like it's made of... pixels."

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--- Dick-Headlines --- Embrace Philip K. Dick's Family Values

Do Androids Pray to Electric Gods?

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