Joyce: Dawn, you be good. Xander: We will. Just gonna play with some matches, run with scissors, take candy from some guy, I don't know his name.

'Beneath You'


Natter .44 Magnum: Do You Feel Chatty, Punk?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jessica - Jun 01, 2006 9:14:38 am PDT #9941 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Robot hand controlled by human thoughts:

The robotic hand mimics the movements of a person's real hand, based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of their brain activity. It marks another landmark in the advance towards prosthetics and computers that can be operating by thought alone.

The system was developed by Yukiyasu Kamitani and colleagues from the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, and researchers from the Honda Research Institute in Saitama.

Subjects lay inside an MRI scanner and were asked to make "rock, paper, scissor" shapes with their right hand. As they did this, the MRI scanner recorded brain activity during the formation of each shape and fed this data to a connected computer. After a short training period, the computer was able to recognise the brain activity associated with each shape and command the robotic appendage do the same.

Naturally, I want one.


Gudanov - Jun 01, 2006 9:15:24 am PDT #9942 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

It's turns out Batwoman is gay and five foot ten. I didn't even know there was a Batwoman.

[link]


Trudy Booth - Jun 01, 2006 9:15:50 am PDT #9943 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Naturally, I want one.

See if Miracleman will let you borrow his.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 01, 2006 9:17:06 am PDT #9944 of 10002
What is even happening?

It's turns out Batwoman is gay and five foot ten. I didn't even know there was a Batwoman.

Is she Barbara Gordon all grown up, or another woman?


Gudanov - Jun 01, 2006 9:19:36 am PDT #9945 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

The article says Batwoman is Kathy Kane.


Aims - Jun 01, 2006 9:22:23 am PDT #9946 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Barbara Gordon all growed up becomes Oracle after The Joker severs her spine in "The Killing Joke".

My knowledge of the Civil War was replaced with that. Thanks, honey.


Jesse - Jun 01, 2006 9:22:24 am PDT #9947 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's really bad, Cindy. I'm glad everything is OK.


sumi - Jun 01, 2006 9:23:43 am PDT #9948 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Ummm, is the relationship with Renee Montoya in Gotham Central somewhere? Or is that going to be part of 52 too? (I have only read part one of 52 .)


Topic!Cindy - Jun 01, 2006 9:25:29 am PDT #9949 of 10002
What is even happening?

Thanks, Jesse. We mostly knew it couldn't be anything too dangerous because we're careful with medicine and cleaning fluids, and all that jazz, but before it happened, I would have said I mostly knew my six year old wouldn't eat an unidentified object he found on the toilet rim, you know? And with two other kids in the house, there exists the possibility someone else took something from somewhere that they shouldn't have, and then attempted to flush it, or whatever...

It was probably nothing, and he's perfectly fine, today. I need a vacay.


Gudanov - Jun 01, 2006 9:26:22 am PDT #9950 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Ummm, is the relationship with Renee Montoya in Gotham Central somewhere? Or is that going to be part of 52 too? (I have only read part one of 52.)

My bat-knowledge doesn't really extend past the CNN article.