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Bagpipes think they're sexy
I was walking past Beckman Institute this afternoon and there was some sort of gala there, with a number of people in suits. There was also a bagpiper playing (what I'm pretty sure was) Do You Think I'm Sexy. ("If you want my body, and you think I'm sexy, come on baby let me know...")
Life can be a very surreal thing at times. -
Going to VSS conference next week?
(x-posted to neuroscience and cogsci)
By the way, are any of you folks going to the Vision Sciences Society conference next week in Sarasota, FL? I'll be heading there myself with a bunch of other people from my lab. I'm pretty excited, as it's the first time I'll be presenting (albeit in poster form) at a conference ( Read more... ) -
Dick Cheney mobbed by little girls
This has got to be one of the more surreal story heads I've seen recently:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/04/american_girl_f.html
'American Girl' Fans Mob Cheney ( Read more... ) -
Cooling Vacuum Glove Fights Fatigue
Wired reports on a glove developed by Stanford researchers Dennis Grahn and Craig Heller which combines a cooling system with a vacuum in order to chill blood vessels and drastically reduce fatigue. Besides the obvious applications for the military and athletics, the technology is also potentially useful for firefighters, stroke victims, and people ( Read more... ) -
Fixation
This is hilarious:
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070312ruel/
When photos do contain people related to the task at hand, or the content users are exploring, they do get fixations. However, gender makes a distinct difference on what parts of the photo are stared at the ( Read more... ) -
St. Patrick's Day swing songs?
Do any of you have suggestions for swing songs that would work well at a St. Patrick's Day dance? -
CNS/Bi 157: sheep brains!
I just signed up for John Allman's comparative neuroanatomy course next term, the one where the students get to dissect a sheep's brain. w00t! It'll be nice to finally solidify my neuroanatomy knowledge. I haven't dissected anything since middle school, and have never dissected a brain.
Here's the description:
Comparative Nervous Systems CNS/ ( Read more... ) -
Automatic video scene splitting?
I've noticed that when I capture or open a DV-AVI in Windows Movie Maker, it can automatically detect the different scenes in the video, presumably using the DV timestamp information. Is there any way to use something like Windows Movie Maker or VirtualDub to automatically split the detected scenes in a video into several files ( Read more... )
