Thread of the Random

[dshans]

I take a quarter, ride a bus down town, and find a rat to gnaw it off!

Since we are on an eclectic bent today; Tuvan Throat singing:

Sounds like me after a typical night of drinking and smoking.

Wait! What? Your bus fare is only a quarter???

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Sounds like me after a typical night of drinking and smoking.

Wait! What? Your bus fare is only a quarter???

Maybe not mine, but Uncle Bucks was!

 

[chicago51]

I wish I could start a thread. Miami Heat winning streak is over at 27 games.

Go Bulls!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

So SBNation posted an article about some painfully white Bulls fans celebrating court-side after their win over the Heat. Somehow, the article got linked on Yahoo!'s front page, and that drove a bunch of outraged Yahoo! posters to comment on the article. If you're familiar with SBNation, the results are predictably hilarious; such glorious trolling.

 

[bkess8]

So my wife is sleeping in the hospital bed next to me, we're expecting our first child any minute now. Any last minute advice for a soon to be father?

If you dont have patience... you soon will learn too. Also ENJOY being a father! It is a true blessing!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

GAP CONTROL!

GAP CONTROL!

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[PLACforever]

When is the Spring game?

 

[BobD]

 

[BobD]

What's happening?

Man Wiggles Rat's Tail Using Only His Thoughts
LiveScience.com - 10 hrs ago



By linking the brains of a human and a rat, scientists have now helped a man wiggle a rodent's tail using only the man's thoughts.

These new findings are the first case of a brain-to-brain interface between species, and the first example of a noninvasive brain-to-brain interface, researchers added.

In February, scientists revealed they linked together the brains of two rats. This first known instance of a brain-to-brain interface apparently helped the rodents share data to accomplish certain tasks, even across intercontinental distances. However, this advance depended on microscopic electrodes implanted in the rats' heads.

In the latest example of a mind-meld, researchers employed noninvasive techniques to link the brains of a human and a rat. The man had electrodes stuck onto his scalp that picked up brain-wave activity. The rat was placed in a machine that focused ultrasound pulses through its skull to its brain, and was anesthetized so that it would not wriggle its head during the experiment.

The volunteer had a video screen placed in front of him that displayed a flickering pattern of light. If he paid attention to the screen, his brain waves would synchronize with the strobe light. If he looked away, or even if he looked at it while thinking of something else, his brain waves would not synchronize with the light flickers.

When the man focused on the flickering pattern, that action signaled the ultrasound to stimulate the part of the sleeping rat's brain responsible for moving its body. In response, the rodent flicked its tail. The interface was accurate 94 percent of the time, with a time delay of only about 1.6 seconds from the moment the man initiated his intent to the rat tail's wiggling. [Video - Watch Man Wiggle Rat's Tail With His Mind Only]



"This is the first noninvasive attempt to achieve a brain-to-brain interface," researcher Seung-Schik Yoo, a neuroscientist and bioengineer at Harvard Medical School, told LiveScience.

Yoo noted this interface was little more than an on-off switch. Still, he added that brain-machine interfaces are getting increasingly advanced over time, enabling people with paralysis to control robot arms.

In the future, interspecies brain-to-brain interfaces could help search-and-rescue operations, Yoo suggested.

"Dogs have an incredible sense of smell that humans don't have. If somehow there was a way to link up olfactory sensation, we could definitely benefit by enhancing our capabilities," Yoo said.

Brain-to-brain interfaces could also link people together. "You could imagine delivering any [thoughts] you want to another person, or do the same thing with many people, or have many people do the same thing to you," Yoo added. "You could imagine people feeling and deciding collectively, which makes me think of the Borg in Star Trek."

"Maybe Tiger Woods can record his brain activity when he plays golf, and when I match it to my brain, I can quantify what the differences are and learn that way, not just do video analysis," Yoo said. "But this is far-fetched at the moment."

Scientists are a long way off from using this technique to control people, Yoo cautioned.

"You'd first have to know how to interpret brain activity fully, and we can't do that now — the science is not there," Yoo said. "So don't worry that the government will come up with a secret way of controlling the brain."

The scientists detailed their findings online April 3 in the journal PLOS ONE.

 

[GoldenIsThyFame]

This is awesome. #15 is the best.

What Happens If You Text Your Parents Pretending To Be A Drug Dealer

 

[GEORGIA DOMER]

#16 all day long !!!!!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

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[Andy in Sactown]

NSFW-ish. It's ****ing Clerks.
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[NDBoiler]

I used to have a cat that would've been great to make him do this since he was just a huge/fat cat who would just sit there.

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[Whiskeyjack]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>BRODARIOUS HAMM. RT @<a href="https://twitter.com/joetereshinski4">joetereshinski4</a>: Attn @<a href="https://twitter.com/edsbs">edsbs</a>, UGA has offered a 290 pound 9th grader named Brodarious Hamm.</p>— edsbs (@edsbs) <a href="https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/330339916645007360">May 3, 2013</a></blockquote>
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BRODARIOUS HAMM

 

[greyhammer90]

BRODARIOUS HAMM

He looks excited to get the offer.

 

[dshans]

BRODARIOUS HAMM

I see beer commercials in his future.



From the land of sky blue waters ...

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Soylent, a complete nutritional food replacer, just cleared its funding goal on Kickstarter. I've been following its development because I have a very hard time eating healthful foods with my hectic schedule. It would be so much easier to just down a shake than to have to scrounge for food 2-3 times day, and end up settling on something expensive and unhealthful.

Thought this might be of interest to some the bachelors on our board.

 

[Black Irish]

Soylent, a complete nutritional food replacer, just cleared its funding goal on Kickstarter. I've been following its development because I have a very hard time eating healthful foods with my hectic schedule. It would be so much easier to just down a shake than to have to scrounge for food 2-3 times day, and end up settling on something expensive and unhealthful.

Thought this might be of interest to some the bachelors on our board.

This a joke right? "Soylent, a complete food replacer?" Wow, this company has balls or they are completely ignorant of American pop culture. Cue someone embedding a Charlton Heston gif in 3,2,1....

 

[Damion704]

Wow "Bro Hamm" cracked me up this morning. hahaha

 

[Whiskeyjack]

This a joke right? "Soylent, a complete food replacer?" Wow, this company has balls or they are completely ignorant of American pop culture. Cue someone embedding a Charlton Heston gif in 3,2,1....

Soylent Green was based on a 1966 sci fi novel named "Make Room! Make Room!" In the book, "soylent" is made from soya and lentil. The cannibalism aspect is found only the film.

But you're right. It's a terrible marketing decision.

 

[dshans]

For those out of "the loop":

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[Andy in Sactown]

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[Andy in Sactown]

I've had this in my head the last day or so and it was driving me crazy trying to remember what film used it.. finally at peace..

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[greyhammer90]

Soylent, a complete nutritional food replacer, just cleared its funding goal on Kickstarter. I've been following its development because I have a very hard time eating healthful foods with my hectic schedule. It would be so much easier to just down a shake than to have to scrounge for food 2-3 times day, and end up settling on something expensive and unhealthful.

Thought this might be of interest to some the bachelors on our board.

I would find it hard to put my complete nutritional faith in something that looks like it was made by a bro fresh out of undergrad.

 

[Black Irish]

Soylent Green was based on a 1966 sci fi novel named "Make Room! Make Room!" In the book, "soylent" is made from soya and lentil. The cannibalism aspect is found only the film.

But you're right. It's a terrible marketing decision.

Maybe not. We're talking about it, aren't we?

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I've had this in my head the last day or so and it was driving me crazy trying to remember what film used it.. finally at peace..

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Are you a Nazi spy?

 

[ACamp1900]

Just a thought---

So we complain about the 'Washington Redskins' but no one seems to mind that Compton High's sports teams/mascot are known as "The Tar Babies"...

weird.

 

[Andy in Sactown]

Are you a Nazi spy?

Nein! My name is Danke, Arthur Danke. I am a American. You have no right to spread these lies about me!

Name the movie for a million vBucks.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Nein! My name is Danke, Arthur Danke. I am a American. You have no right to spread these lies about me!

Name the movie for a million vBucks.

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