When the machines revolt, will you be prepared for it?

The unnerving thing about "How to Survive a Robot Uprising," this self-defense handbook with its splashy red neo-retro graphics showing tiny people fleeing huge machines, is that, now and then, you can't tell whether or not it's a joke. You suspect that it is, because -- well, because you're laughing. And because of its deliberate deadpan prose style that echoes those pamphlets you find in government offices and hospital waiting rooms.