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Called a brain-computer interface, the device detects activity in certain brain areas linked to movement, and uses the signals to mimic that movement in a virtual world. The technology could one day help paralysed patients to move robotic arms, or help sufferers of motor neuron disease to type out words on a virtual keyboard. “Just thinking about movement activates the same neurons as actually moving,” explains Gert Pfurtscheller of Graz University of Technology in Austria, who has been working on the device for around four years. By picking up on these bursts of nerve activity, the computer can decide whether you are thinking about moving your hands or feet, and react accordingly. (Let's see, on my virtual Street I can run into Pamela Anderson and Adrianna Lima and....)

As one party prepares to crack down on porn and the other party goes after video games, not to mention the war on downloaders- it turns out the call registry is pretty much a joke.

I was out delivering cards for the upcoming mashup night at Sonotheque ( http://djpsychomike.blogdrive.com ), was walking from Addison to Belmont on Clark when I looked into a store window and was confronted with Japanese pop culture. DVD's of Japanese, Korean and Hong Kong movies, Godzilla toys by the bunch and loads of cool toys. I walked in- I felt like I was in the museum of Japanese pop culture. The store, J1Toy.com is at 3326 N. Clark Street and just seeing the toys is worth the trip. Very cool stuff. There is also a website (hence the name) http://j1toy.com/ and they have a store in NYC at 102 St. Marks Place W and another in Arlington Hts. IL, 43 W. Golf Road. This place gets a ten for cool toys.

A collection of photographs by Hollywood still photographer Fred Edgeworth, taken between 1914 and 1932.

Subjects include silent-film celebrities.  

187 images.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowwhite/sets/983962

The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space

program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.  

 

Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, "My opinion is that it was. ...

It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the

space station had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built

the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-27-nasa-griffin-interview_x.htm

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WENDY'S WORLD

Kids Aren't All Right: The Many Hard, Strange Deaths of the Little

Rascals

http://www.eonline.com/On/Holly/Shows/LittleRascals/

Or maybe not…

http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/ourgang.asp

People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens:

http://www.stopalienautopsies.org/

Tobias Schneebaum, Chronicler and Dining Partner of Cannibals, Dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html

Giant squid!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html

The Museum of Unworkable Devices

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

Mariners over the centuries have reported surreal, nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces

stretching outwards to the horizon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3760124.stm

For Mike, since he loves cats:

http://www.catdiary.com/

 
Brian Wilson will PERSONALLY call you if you send $100 or more to help victims of Katrina plus
 he will match your donation. 
 http://www.brianwilson.com/

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"It is a staple scene of B-movies and Westerns: the cowboy stumbles into a patch of quicksand and is sucked under until only his stetson remains on top, or sinks up to his neck until hauled out by his sidekick.

Both scenarios have now been proved to fly in the face of physics. Research has shown that it is impossible for people to sink into quicksand much beyond the waist — but it is equally impossible to pull someone out once they are stuck." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1802439,00.html

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