Happy Freakin' New Year
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Hank Says Happy New Year!...
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Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.
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Weird Furry Orangina Advertisement
Category: Sex
This is one odd video. This French Orangina TV ad has furries wearing kinky lingerie and an octopus giving a lap dance to a bear. Check it out: I guess I shouldn't be surprised after this previous post about a French set of ads on safe sex practices. -Via BoingBoing-...
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Multimedia Friday - Happiest Memory
Category: Video
Brain Candy, a film by Toronto's sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, is a satirical take on drug development. A scientist creates an antidepressant (Gleemonex) that evokes the happiest memory of the consumer, recreating that joy in the present. Gleemonex becomes a big success, until it all goes horribly...
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December 27, 2007
Brain Juice - A very weird cartoon with Eviiiilll Brainzzz
Category: Video
Title: Brain Juice. Year: 1996-1997 Summary: A Brain comes to life and tries to take over the world through cable access TV. There are even cameos by Beavis and Butthead and the cast of the Wizard of Oz. And obviously made in Canada ;) Weird eh?!...
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December 24, 2007
Why That Song's Stuck in Your Head
Category: Music
"Why do those holiday tunes get stuck in your head so much?" I was invited to pose this question to Dr. Robert Zatorre, Co-Director of the BRAMS: Brain Music and Sound lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University. Dr. Zatorre is a leading expert in neuroscience research...
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December 23, 2007
What to do if an atomic bomb goes off
Category: Video
Why Duck and Cover of course! Check out this great video from the cold war:...
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Is a flying carpet possible?
Category: Technology
The answer is a resounding sorta. Scientists at Harvard have done that calculations and found that "the aerodynamics of a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid" ... should make it "possible to make one that will stay aloft in air." However, No such carpet is going to ferry people...
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The Purple Nurple Optical Illusion
Category: Art
I've entitled this illusion 'The Purple Nurple' Exciting eh? I haven't actually seen this particular one before today so I thought I'd throw it up.... so here it is: I've finally figured out where the heck this illusion has come from! It is actually called "Sea Sickness" and is by...
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Time to get the pole out of the crawl space... It's Festivus!
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Celebrate with Omni Brain today - It's a Festivus for the rest of us! What are your feats of strength going to be this year?...
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December 21, 2007
What Omni Brain finds interesting but is too lazy to post about
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I've been using google reader for a while now and I figured I'd explore its many options today. There is a neat little feature that allows me to share what I'm reading with other people. So if you'd like to keep up with what I'm reading on the feeds you...
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