Awesome commercial. Made me lol irl :D Also I don’t like embedding videos so just click.

Hulu’s Superbowl Commercial.

Ubiquity.

Enhancing the web experience \o/ (just watch the screencast)

I got an iPod Touch a few days ago, with the help of my girlfriend <3 (my old one died when the battery expanded, buttraped the LCD then commited suicide).
I love it (and her ^_^). My very own tiny computer in my chest pocket! Can’t wait for an untethered jailbreak (c`mon redsn0w! >.<) so I can write my own apps. From what I gathered you can write apps in Windows (I don’t have a Mac) only for jailbroken apps..so..meh.

With this occasion I installed a plugin http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/ which changes the look of my blag on iPhone and iPod touch. Enjoy (as if …).

Random thing:
To take screenshots on iPod Touch/iPhone hold the Home button then push the Hold button (the one on the top edge). Then go to the Photos folder stare at it.

Random discussion at 9 in mornin` which made me write a small Python script to input information in the brain from a USB device:

yosh: i need a usb link to my brain
yosh: so i can download books in it :D
yosh: i got over 9000 books i wanna read
sprite: don’t we all
yosh: no, we dont actually
yosh: :D
sprite: it just doesn’t work like that. memory is associative or some shit like that
yosh: “ce pula mea sa fac eu cu cartile? au prea multe litere *plays some manele*”
sprite: you can’t do shit with just the information, you need to make associations
sprite: and you do those as you read
yosh: uh
sprite: so what you need is smth that greatly expands human lifespan
sprite: :D
yosh: ok, usb link AND and a microcontroller or smth which does some stuff automatically :D
yosh: reads memories from brain and associates them with the book o/
sprite: yeah, you’ll write a script for that :))
yosh: ya :D
yosh:
for memory in brain:
if memory.relevant(book_page):
store()
yosh: tada
sprite: but then you store only relevant pages
sprite: but that’s wrong
yosh: ofc
sprite: then again, that IS more or less what happens
sprite: except every now and then, shit that’s unconnected gets stored too
sprite: else it won’t learn anything new >.>
yosh:
for memory in brain:
if memory.relevant(book_page):
store()
else:
new_memory(book_page)
yosh: there :D

This a draft for the code I wrote about in the beginning of the post.
This assumes that you already have the USB2Brain™ device and its Python libs installed and also you have upgraded your brain firmware to the latest version to accept input from external devices which aren’t organs. (If you pull one eye out I consider it to be an external organ >.>)

import USB2Brain
from brain import Cortices, Hippocampus, Amygdala
from brain import Exceptions as brainExceptions

# TODO: Read multiple books at a time

def readBook():
  """ Get book input from USB device """

  book = USB2Brain()
  book = book.read()

  return book

def storeBook():
  """Read lines in book and makes\n
  associations with existing memories\n
  else it stores them as is."""

  book = readbook()

  # Try to stimulate the temporal and prefrontal cortex
  # with the information from one book line, assuming that
  # the book has been properly formatted
  for line in book.split('\n'):
    try:
      # stimulate the prefrontal cortex for emotional response
      responsePrfL = Cortices.Prefrontal.stimulate(line)

      # stimulate the temporal cortex to find memory
      responseTmpL = Cortices.Temporal.stimulate(line)

      if responsePrfL:
        # prepare the memory for short term storage
        memoryS = Hypocampus.encode(cortex = Prefrontal, new_info = line)

        # prepare the memory for long term storage
        memoryL = Amygdala.encode(cortex=Prefrontal, new_info=line, assoc=responsePrfL)

        Cortices.Prefrontal.store(long_term = memoryL, short_term=memoryS)

      # memory in temporal cortex is stored all the time
      # no matter if response is given or not

      # prepare the memory for short term storage in the temporal cortex
      memoryS = Hypocampus.encode(cortex = Temporal, new_info = line)

      # prepare the memory for long term storage in the temporal cortex
      if responseTmpL:
        memoryL = Amygdala.encode(cortex=Temporal, new_info=line, assoc=responseTmpL)
      else:
        # no response was found, just encode the memory without any association
        memoryL = Amygdala.encode(cortex= Temporal, new_info = line)

      Cortices.Temporal.store(long_term = memoryL, short_term = memoryS)

    except brainExceptions.NoLobe as nolobe:
      return "You're missing the %s lobe. See a neurosurgeon." % nolobe.args[0]

if __name__ == __main__:
  storeBook()

The code may be buggy and might throw some unhandled exceptions because for the moment I haven’t been able to get my hands on a USB2Brain™ device yet :(

If anyone is willing to donate one so I can further develop this script please do so. This might sound picky but I prefer unused, non-refurbished products. Neurodegenerative diseases and possible damage don’t sound very appealing.

Sources of information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_term_memory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_cortex

Hope there’s lots of raw fish where you are now. 9 lives, my ass. Rest in peace, kitty. Muie cancer.

July 1996 – 11 Jan 2009

superuseless superpowers.

Kanji Dictionary.

usefulness++; weaboo++;

Fleggaard.

Official Google Blog: Google Chrome (BETA).

Google Chrome – out of beta after a few months of its launch.

Google Mail – still in beta after 4+ years.

Uh….wut?

How-To: Build Your Own Custom Full-Sized Wireless Guitar Hero Controller.