Sillybean

Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain… Um, holy shit?

OH CANADA NO. (further discussion, supplemented by entertaining computer engineering metaphors, over at Making Light)

Thank You for Choosing the Hyatt Regency Purgatory “An automatic-teller machine is located in the lobby. For your convenience, it is attended at all hours and in perpetuity by the bank executive who came up with the idea of ATM fees.”

Twilight in Fifteen Minutes — Scathing and brilliant.

Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.

The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.

The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.

Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”

Cake. In a mug.

The new Watchmen posters are oooh, shiny.

Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.

the best possible end to the last eight years

The Presidency, illustrated

I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.

You couldn’t run a Starbucks this way, much less the country. — Priceless.