Yay, msbelle! Smooth transition wishes for you.
No street view for me. And a really old satellite pic.
Very cute, Theodosia!
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
Laura - Dec 11, 2007 12:00:33 pm PST #6694 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 12:04:10 pm PST #6695 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 12:52:55 pm PST #6696 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Liese S. - Dec 11, 2007 1:05:41 pm PST #6697 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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."
Lee - Dec 11, 2007 1:06:42 pm PST #6698 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hiding from the spitting cobras.
Sheryl - Dec 11, 2007 1:42:32 pm PST #6699 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Congrats msbelle!
-t - Dec 11, 2007 1:56:42 pm PST #6700 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It eats leopards?
::back into hiding::
sarameg - Dec 11, 2007 2:12:38 pm PST #6701 of 10001
Oh, go look at the jerboa pictures. Cute, nonthreatening and did I mention cute? [link]
-t - Dec 11, 2007 2:18:57 pm PST #6702 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've got some mysterious brass statues that I now think are jerboas. Rodent looking things with ginormous ears. They are not represented as jumping, however, just standing there uprightish. I've got them watching over my cats' food dishes for what may very well be ironic effect.
sarameg - Dec 11, 2007 2:38:19 pm PST #6703 of 10001
That's great! I'd love to find something like that.
OK, a reappearance of the Civility Expert has once again made me hostile. I really wonder what it is about this guy that sets me off. I largely agree with him (and I'm pretty damned civil) and he sounds like a pleasent enough fellow. But I can't read or hear about him without feeling ill-tempered. It's just...odd.