Scientists have simulated a mouse’s cortical hemisphere on a supercomputer, running at about 10% of the speed. It doesn’t really have the structure of a mouse’s brain yet, but I suspect with one mouse wandering past the Do Not Enter signs, and one lightning strike, we’ll have an Artificial Mouse Intelligence any day now. Maybe we can use it against the human-brained, cyborg mice? Link courtesy of Boing Boing.
From The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Since things are much more ancient than letters, it is no marvel if, in our day, no records exist of these seas having covered so many countries; and if, moreover, some records had existed, war and conflagrations, the deluge of waters, the changes of languages and of laws have consumed every thing ancient. But sufficient for us is the testimony of things created in the salt waters, and found again in high mountains far from the seas. ...
I’d like to write something about this formula for predicting procrastination, but I’m just not really motivated right now.
According to a recent study, when asked to draw an “E” on their foreheads, people with a sense of power draw the letter as if they were reading it, while others draw it so others can read it. Great, I just tried to draw an E where I could read it, and I ended up reversing it anyway. :| Link courtesy of Collision Detection
The waters of the salt sea are fresh at the greatest depths. - Page 948 “So dive real deep, take a big gulp of water, and let us know what it tastes like, okay?” :)
From Wil Wheaton’s blog: I love that. NASA kept Spirit awake so it (and we) could watch the sunset. Isn’t that just beautiful? We sent a robot all the way to another planet, and then had it do something humans have been doing since before we touched the monolith. We didn’t even learn anything from it . . . or did we? The picture which inspires.
More random stuff I thought I’d blog about, but haven’t: Three lies about social software - I can’t state it any better than this: “The ’team’ represented by a given blog community is actually a collection of incredibly diverse people, with common interests rather than common views.” Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time. Windows Vista Product Guide - A feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista, by Microsoft. Link courtesy of OSNews. ...
When I run across interesting things to link from my blog, I usually send them to my Gmail account with the best intentions of blogging about them “when I get some time.” Well, that doesn’t happen as often as it should, so I’ll clear out a few items now: 5 Lamest Charlie Brown Cartoons - 10 Zen Monkeys covers the five worst Peanuts animated specials. I can’t agree with the inclusion of Snoopy, Come Home, though. Link courtesy of TV Squad. ...
I subscribe to a feed that supplies one page from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci each day. At that rate, they’ll have the entire work done in about four years. I was struck by today’s selection: I reveal to men the origin of the first, or perhaps second cause of their existence. Fascinating. :)
Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dead at 44 from a stingray’s barb. :(