Brain Maps

Brains are cool. If you've ever wanted to look at brains, now is your chance. This website has 50 terabytes of brain images. You can browse through a google-maps-like interface on the website or download an opengl based browser to wade through brains in a more google-earth-like way. Either way you look at it, this place has lots of brains behind it! They've got brains on the brain! It's a brain... oh just go check it out.

http://brainmaps.org/

First off we've got a wonderful recap of Mike Judge's latest effort, Idiocracy. This article summarizes the branding and graphic design throughout the movie.

Idiocratic Design

Next, an article with a great title. Makes ya wonder who comes up with these things...

Balls finally dropped into mud volcano

Finally, from an article yesterday about a new documentary on the supposed tomb of Jesus, the priceless quote: "Pastor Brick Wall of Victory Christian Life Center said he doesn't hold stock in the film's premise." .. standing 'firm and solid', 'never swaying', to 'hold up' his namesake. Seriously, I'm not making this up.

Have the bones of Jesus been found?

Drew from Toothpaste For Dinner tries out Second Life and reveals the seedy underbelly of the virtual world... or lack thereof.

Second Life is free to play, and I keep seeing people referring to it in the news, so I had to take one for the team and just dive on in. I knew it probably wasn't going to be intriguing when I got to the signup part and couldn't even make a one-word name. I had to use some fantasy-ass last name and I couldn't even use cusses. The best I could do was call myself Wenis.

Full story

Some lizards smell tougher than others!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070221-lizards-smell.html

Yesterday's dinosaur comics is fantastic. In fact, today's is a thrilling sequel *about* thrilling sequels! All this talk about dinosaurs gets me thinking about that preview for that movie that had the T-Rex... yeah, that one.

Meet the Robinsons

As some of you may know, my icon is not a picture of me. Yes, I know, "WTF Brian, that's not cool". I needed an icon.. so I just took one from someone else. No big deal because I will now remedy the situation with an icon of me in a funny hat. In fact, it's no less than the grandest of funny hats because, you see, I was the mad hatter at our "Mad Hatter Tea Party". There's more pictures of this fascinating adventure in wonderland in my photostream.

'Tis all. Farewell.