Mind-Reading Is Only A Step Away

Been seeing this around on people’s posts: Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain!

Dude!

And they haven’t quite gotten color yet, but I am starting to wonder what synesthesia would look like on there. Would it show up in the images? Would the images themselves be different? What about if you’re picturing something without looking at it, like a tropical beach or your best friend or Thursday? Now I’m all intrigued.

I have a science icon from somewhere (anyone know whose? I feel like a thief). Now I just need a PG science icon …

Advent Calendar ~ Day 12!

12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. It has great songs and is spectacularly funny, with Oscar the Grouch falling down like 85 flights of stairs at one point and a “Gift of the Magi” parody and a song in ASL and a lot of little kids giving you their theories on Santa. The main storyline’s pretty sweet. And there is no Elmo.

Runner-up is, of course, The Muppet Christmas Carol, with Michael Caine playing the best Scrooge ever. I was impressed at how much of the actual Dickens they got in there (The Great Gonzo Charles Dickens himself even gives you a lot of the narrative, which is great stuff). The music is also terrific.

I also happen to love superhero cartoon Christmas episodes, because they are invariably cracktacular. The X-Men Animated one where Wolverine learns the True Meaning of Christmas, which seems to be donating blood to Morlocks, and we find out that Beast makes a spectacular cranberry glaze. The Justice League episode with the Martian Christmas carols, Flash’s desperate quest to get the last of the Awesome Gifts, the epic snowball fight between Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, and of course the nod to the fact that Batman hates Christmas. And the reason Batman hates Christmas, the best of all—“Christmas with the Joker,” in which the Joker holds people hostage, blows up trains and buildings, and takes over broadcasting systems in order to give Bats his Christmas present. (And the present itself is totally brilliant.) They don’t count as Christmas movies, but they are hilarious.

But that Sesame Street one … wow. Everyone should watch it. You want to cry every time Ernie sells Rubber Ducky in order to get the perfect gift for Bert. Man, that’s a good one.


Now, the happy: the ridiculous conversation I just had with lookingforwater in which we decided that Commander Riker would be the most hilarious drunk ever.  ("DATA WAS THAT YOUR DAUGHTER? OH SHIT SORRY ABOUT THAT. COULD SHE FEEL PAIN WHEN SHE DIED, DO YOU THINK? AND DUDE, WAS SHE 'FULLY FUNCTIONAL'?  WHAT DID I MISS WITH HER? TASHA SAID YOU WERE 'FULLY FUNCTIONAL'!  DUDE, YOU FUCKED TASHA!")