I can't do the street view thing with my house but if you put in a slightly wrong address and "look" to the right it's my old house in Brookline!

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Thanks, -t! It's an odd little thing, but so well suited to my needs. Well, another bathroom would be good, but MOSTLY well-suited. :-)

Congrats, msbelle!

oh, Parents, I really thought this year they'd figured something out for me present-wise. But, no, turns out they just haven't gone shopping yet....sigh...I always figure gifts for them out on my own (or with my brothers) but they can never figure out about me. It's like they don't know me at all! so annoying. (And they do know what my interests are! We talk all the time. It's not like we're estranged or anything.)

Yay, msbelle! Smooth transition wishes for you.

No street view for me. And a really old satellite pic.

Very cute, Theodosia!

Sega and NeuroSky To Make Mind-Controlled Toys

Sega and NeuroSky are uniting to make toys controlled by the power of thought.

NeuroSky is usually seen on the conference circuit as as a headset, clamped onto the player's beady-sweated pate, from where it monitors the electrical impulses within. Though it's quite limited — your Tetsuo-like mental concentration is measured as but a single axis — it provides a strange feeling of having a kind of "extra limb." Details on the Sega's new toys are not offered, unfortunately, so the end results are left to our imaginations.

Following our earlier coverage and hands-on review of NeuroSky (wherein I psychically crush my enemies in a Half-Life 2 mod) I have some ideas: how about a game where you have no actual weapon, but wander around and make people's heads explode by maxing out your brainwave focus bar? Oh, wait, kids' toys. I forget.

Where'd everybody go?

ION, New Horrifyingly Large, Poison-Spitting Snake Discovered

Researchers have identified a new species of spitting cobra in Kenya, one that is over nine feet long and has enough venom to "kill twenty people" according to an "expert" on the subject in this article on nationalgeographic.com.

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Experts used to link this brown cobra with its black spitting cobra cousins, but thanks to lab analysis of blood and tissue, they now have classified it as its own species. According to the National Geographic article, spitting cobras eat "eggs, carrion, snakes, lizards, birds, human babies, water buffalo, giraffes, and leopards."

It eats babies? Damn.

We can't talk to you any more. Our brains exploded.

Also, don't worry about the snake. It's only being discussed by an "expert."

Hiding from the spitting cobras.

Timelies all!

Congrats msbelle!