Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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Inception Yo Dawg

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:19 PM PDT

Origami frog from FBI's "unpublishable" seal

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:12 PM PDT

Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader Philip Chapman-Bell shares this wonderful photo of an origami frog crafted from the FBI seal—which, as regular readers may recall, the FBI recently decreed that no one may publish (and certainly not Wikipedia). Philip explains:

Last week's story about the FBI sending a threatening letter to Wikipedia (perhaps because of that wiki-thing in their name?) reminded me of Æsop's fable about the frog who wanted to be as big as an ox -- the frog kept swallowing air until it swelled up to an unnatural size and exploded.



Orlando rules against traffic-cams (those who paid tickets may get refunds!)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:30 PM PDT

Via the BB Submitterator, reader ReverendFaux says "An Orlando judge has ruled that the traffic cameras that issued nearly half a million tickets were and are illegal. The ruling is facing both praise and criticism, but is definitely an effort to protect people's privacy while out in public." Looks like the ruling may even mean cash reimbursements for those who paid tickets!

How to turn carrots into bacon

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Via the BB Submitterator, reader kentbrew says,

Here is an instructional Flickr set that shows you exactly how to turn the carrots you allowed to grow way beyond the point where they were edible by human beings into something verrrry close to bacon.
As an herbivore, I heartily approve!

How to Turn Carrots into Bacon! (Flickr)

Cylon moose has a name (and a maker): "Robo-Moose," by Brad Turner

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:58 PM PDT

Following up on yesterday's post about a fantastic metal moose sculpture outside a roadside eatery, an observant Boing Boing reader points us to its origins: the creation is apparently the work of sculptor Brad Turner, and was part of a moose art competition called the Bennington Moosefest. Some of the other entries in this contest were pretty fun, too.

HAYYY YOU GUYS WHASSUP!!1!1!

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda share this photo with Boing Boing, and pass along this link to their accompanying blog post. "A huge kabuto-mushi bug turned up on our doorstep in Tokyo. We invited him in and fed him and even built a little house for him!"

JetBlue flight attendant arrested for his entertaining exit from plane

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 05:09 PM PDT

Three cheers for JetBlue attendant Steven Slater! When his plane touched down at JFK, an entitled douchebag removed his luggage from the overhead bin while it was still rolling to the gate. Slater told the jerk to wait but the jerk called Slater an asshole motherfucker and then hit Slater with his luggage.

Slater's handling of the situation is commendable:

2010 08 Jetblue21Slater got on the plane's public address system and yelled:

"To the passenger who called me a (expletive), (expletive) you. I've been in the business 28 years. I've had it. That's it."

Sources said Slater then grabbed some beer from the plane, deployed the inflatable emergency slide, and took off in his car parked in an employee lot.

Instead of a ticker tape parade, Slater was arrested. No word on the fate of the jerk who started it.

JetBlue Attendant Goes Ballistic On Flight To JFK (Thanks, JG!)

Trenton will sell you things. Do not resist.

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:58 PM PDT

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Traveling from Wilmington, Delaware, to New York this afternoon* I passed this bridge and spent the rest of the trip wishing I'd acted fast enough to snap a picture. Thankfully, Flickr user bearclau was on that already.

Confused? Feeling vaguely threatened? NPR explains the history behind this slogan that is at once chock-full of can-do spirit and disquieting menace.

* I took a regular train to Delaware in the morning, and the Acela—America's only sort-of-high-speed train—back. I realize this is going to make Europeans and Japanese roll their eyes, but guys, the Acela is awesome. Smooth and powerful. Just fast enough to kind of make you feel a little giddy. Packed with the most hilariously stereotypical businesspeople straight from central casting. And (at least for my trip) 25% faster than the normal train. I realize trains don't work everywhere in a big, wide country. But there are so many trips where I would much rather repeat my Acela experience than fly.

Church carnival "Alien Attack" game invites you to shoot President Obama (bonus: bank-robbing she-clown!)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:24 PM PDT

[photo courtesy lehighvalleylive.com, click for large size]

Visitors to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Big Time carnival last week in Roseto, PA (a small borough, population 1600), were invited to play "Alien Attack," a midway game shown above in which you shoot an effigy of U.S. president Barack Obama. Six shots for $5! Note the presidential seal belt-buckle (all presidents wear this), the target on the forehead, and the "Health Bill" scroll he's clutching. Oh, and the Troll Doll with a KISS t-shirt? Nice touch.

The local paper got an awful lot of mileage out of the story. Carny operator Irvin L. Good Jr., president of Hellertown, PA-based Goodtime Amusements, was adamant that the game was not a representation of the president—at least he was 'til the secret service guys showed up:

"Yes, a woman talked to me about it," Good said today. "She said she was offended by it. I said if you are, you might want to be. But you're interpreting it as being Obama. We're not interpreting it as Obama. The name of the game is 'Alien Leader.' If you're offended, that's fine, we duly note that." When it was suggested the health bill and presidential seal might lead players to believe the game did depict Obama, Good said, "You may be right there."

The entire original article is pure awesome.

Incidentally, lehighvalleylive.com might just be my favorite new news source. The "Obama game outrage" coverage blew up last week, but today the paper reports even more local crazytime: "Bethlehem Township, Pa., police today released a surveillance photo of a woman dressed in a clown suit who on Friday allegedly robbed a township bank."

She told police she had been abducted, and was forced to rob the bank by an unknown man who threatened to kill her and her children. Hey, at least he didn't make her take bong hits.

Fresh, home-made blood vessels

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:39 PM PDT

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Organovo, a biotech start-up near San Diego, has figured out a method for printing blood vessels. Made from the stem cells of the soon-to-be transplant recipient, the blood vessels are useful in themselves, but they're also a first step toward something even crazy bigger—printing whole organs.

Most organs in the body are filled with veins, so the ability to print vascular tissue is a critical building block for complete organs. The printed veins are about to start testing in animal trials, and eventually go through human clinical trials. If all goes well, in a few years you may be able to replace a vein that has deteriorated (due to frequent injections of chemo treatment, for example) with custom-printed tissue grown from your own cells.

The barriers to full-organ printing are not just technological. The first organ-printing machine will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, test, produce and market. Not to mention the difficulty any company will have getting FDA approval.

Until then, you can pass the time by flipping through this great Wired photo gallery, which takes you through the process from start to finish. Thanks to photographer Dave Bullock for suggesting this on Submitterator.

Photo: Dave Bullock (eecue)

Submitterator: Sorta social!

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Images Submitterator600-1 Just a reminder that the place to submit and share your curious finds, harebrained schemes, and unusual discoveries is the new Boing Boing Submitterator. Reading it is a perpetual novelty brain-jack! Now with social media buttons for improved amplification! Boing Boing Submitterator Update: Per your suggestions, we've set RSS and the Twitter feed to exclude poorly-ranked items. We'll also be improving spamblocking in general soon.

Improve your poker game ... with science!

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:53 PM PDT

Put on a happy face—it's the best expression for outfoxing your opponents at poker, according to researchers at Harvard. (Via Noah Gray)

The science of the booty call

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:46 PM PDT

"As much as you want to escape your biology, there it is, in your face. Humans have the illusion that they can escape their biology, but we're just like any other animal, the difference is our leash is longer. It appears that we have all this freedom to make these choices, but we really don't."—University of South Alabama psychology professor Peter K. Jonason, author of the scientific treatise "Positioning the Booty-Call Relationship on the Spectrum of Relationships" [PDF], interviewed in Salon. (via Oxblood Ruffin)

Herman Miller blog on Mark's workspace

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT

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Cerentha Harris of Herman Miller's Lifework blog interviewed me about my workspace.

How do you keep your office organized? I'm thinking here of the physical space but also your computer. Are there any particular programs you find really useful?

My lifesaver is the combination of having a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M sheet-fed scanner and the Evernote application. I scan every piece of paper that comes my way — bills, press releases, receipts, user manuals, tax papers, contracts, business cards — basically anything that's flat and fits into the hopper. The digitized files are stored in Evernote's cloud so I can access them anywhere — on my iPad, my iPhone, any computer. Evernote OCRs the documents so I can search for anything by keyword. These two things have gone a long way in uncluttering my life!

I would love to see photos of Boing Boing readers' workplaces. Please post links to them, along with tips for keeping things organized.

Inspiration: Boing Boing Founder Mark Frauenfelder

Fandom Convention Love

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:31 PM PDT

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Over at LA Weekly, I write primarily for Style Council, our arts blog. I almost always work with photographer Shannon Cottrell. Together we cover everything from local artists to nightclubs. What we've possibly become known for covering, though, are fandom conventions.

Shannon and I met about two years ago, when we were paired together for the same assignment. Then, at one point I said something to her like, "Hey, want to go to Anime LA with me? There will be lots of cosplayers. You'll get cool photographs."

I'm admittedly an anime nerd, so I had been to Anime LA before, and to a few other cons. Shannon had been to Comic-Con, but hadn't attended any anime events. I'm not sure if either of us knew what was going to happen that weekend. But by the end of it, we had become reporting partners and developed a serious con addiction. Our mission, henceforth, was to scout out every convention, plus fan gatherings in between conventions, and cover them. That summer, we scored our geek fantasy assignments—Anime Expo and San Diego Comic-Con International—and the obsession grew worse.



Initially, it was the cosplay and fan art that drew us into the con scene. We were amazed by the imagination and skill we saw throughout the hotel where Anime L.A. was held. But cons quickly became much more than that for us. There's much more to fandom conventions than cosplay and big industry announcements. As we continue our journey, we try to bring what we find to readers.


We've also met a lot of great people at the events, from bloggers to artists, and kept in touch with them during the downtime. The people we meet through our Southern California con travels have become our guides as we venture further into the scene. They're a source of inspiration for us.


I hope to introduce you to a few of them over the next week.


Related reading over at LA Weekly:

• San Diego Comic-Con 2010

• Anime Expo 2010

Welcome to the guestblog, Liz Ohanesian!

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:06 PM PDT

I am very happy to welcome Liz Ohanesian to the Boing Boing guestblog. She's an LA-based journalist who writes about music, manga, art and more for LAWeekly.com (mostly for the Style Council section). I've long been a fan of her counterculture coverage there, and am really looking forward to introducing her work to some new readers, through this BoingBoing residency. Welcome, Liz! Can't wait to read your posts!

Sharon Tate, 1968

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:42 PM PDT

Above, a tabloid cover featuring Sharon Tate, from 1968. Today marks the day of her death: she was murdered by the Manson Family on August 9, 1969. (image via Glamour a go-go)

Who spends the most time in online gaming? (Surprise: Your mom.)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:33 PM PDT

From the New York Times, a stat sure to shock the misogynist trolls that swarm gaming sites: "Women [...] outpace men in photo sharing and shopping, and in what may come as a surprise, gaming, favoring casual puzzle, card and board games. Female gamers over 55 spend the most time online gaming of any demographic by far and are nearly as common as the most represented group, males 15 to 24." Granted, we may be talking Farmville, not Call of Duty, but still...

Twittermergency

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:27 PM PDT

When she wrecked her mountain bike deep in the woods, Leigh Fazzina was too far from any real humans to scream for help—and too far from a cell phone tower to call 911. But she did have enough of a cell signal to tweet her emergency. Within minutes, the ambulance arrived. Go, Internet, go! (Via Naseem Miller)

Wikileaks Afghan war data visualized with open source apps: "stop-motion photo of freeway wreck"

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:28 PM PDT

Danger Room contributor and NYU political science grad student Drew Conway used an open source statistical programming language called R and a graphical plotting software tool to transform the "Wikileaked" Afghan war data into visual representation:

The results are unnerving, like stop-motion photography of a freeway wreck. Above is the latest example: a graph showing the spread of combat from 2004 to 2009. It’s exactly what you wouldn’t want to see as a war drags on.

“The sheer volume of observations [in the WikiLeaks database] inhibit the majority of consumers from being able to gain knowledge from it. By providing graphical summaries of the data people can draw inferences quickly, which would have been very difficult to do by serially reading through the files,” Conway e-mails Danger Room. “For instance, in the most recent graph I posted [see above], many people were noticing the increasing number of attacks around Afghanistan’s ‘ring road,’ over time, and seeing that as an indication of the Taliban’s attempt to undermine the Afghanistan government by cutting off villages from one another.”

Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown (Danger Room)

The War Project: Sgt. Carlos Reynaldo Farias

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:15 PM PDT

Susannah Breslin has published a new entry on The War Project: a first-hand account written by Sgt. Carlos Reynaldo Farias (shown above) a few days after a firefight that took place on June 6, 2007, near Musa Qala, Afghanistan, in which one of his fellow Army soldiers died.

Sgt. Carlos Farias served in Charlie Company, 1st Platoon, 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He was deployed to Afghanistan from January 2007 to April 2008. "I wrote [this] days after the event," he wrote in an email. "The day was hell. ... I documented it to help me get over the situation, a venting process if you will. It did help some but even at that for weeks I could not sleep fearing that either one of the members of my team or myself would die in the coming missions."
Sgt. Farias' story contains graphic violence and strong language. Snip:

They picked him up and I saw the back of his head, bloody, with an exit wound. I really don't want to explain but for documental purposes I must. It was dark red with black hues around his eye, almost like someone just got a bucket of blood and poured it all over him. The back of his head I did see but not up close. It was horrible, it was a dark crimson mess of flesh. God bless him. D--- said when he assessed his vitals he pulled him near and grabbed the back of his head, froze, felt his hand go into his head and looked at R----- and said, "He's dead."

The fear you feel from all this is immense, but Thank God that we train so hard. I don't believe I could've done it if it wasn't for our training. My legs were jello and my head was spinning and felt like Hell, actual biblical Hell opened a portal and demons were flying all about, but you have to keep a cool head, you must if you have any hope to survive and keep your buddy alive ... and I fucking knew I didn't wanna see anyone else die.


LETTER: Sgt. Carlos Reynaldo Farias (thewarproject.com)

Buckminster Fuller hand-painted designer toy

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 12:08 PM PDT

Fullerrrrrr Over at Submitterator, Clea shares this terrific Bucky Fully Munny that she painted for the Summer Munny Show at Lift Designer Toys and Gallery in Royal Oak, Michigan. I love the tiny Dymaxion map in his hand.

Nerve connections are regenerated after spinal cord injury

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:57 AM PDT

Researchers from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and Harvard University "for the first time have induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement after spinal cord injury, showing the potential for new therapeutic approaches to paralysis and other motor function impairments."

To do this week: look at the night sky, and enjoy the Perseid meteor shower

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:08 PM PDT

No matter where on Earth you're reading this blog post, you should be able to look up into the night sky this week and see some beautiful meteor action:

According to the best estimates, in 2010 the Earth is predicted to cut through the densest part of the Perseid stream sometime around 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday. The best window of opportunity to see the shower will be the late-night hours of Wednesday on through the first light of dawn on the morning of Thursday, and then again during the late-night hours of Aug. 12 into the predawn hours of Aug. 13. The Moon, whose bright light almost totally wrecked last year's shower, will have zero impact this year; unlike last year when it was just a few days past full, this year it will be new on Monday, Aug. 9, meaning that there will be absolutely no interference from it at all.
Yeah, seriously: thanks for not screwing up the party this year, Moon.

Excellent Perseid Meteor Shower Expected Aug. 11-13 (space.com)

Related: I did not know this, but the annual event is also known as "Tears of St. Lawrence," commemorating the "fiery tears" of a Christian martyr who was tortured by Romans and literally cooked to death on an iron stove in 258 A.D.:

The Judge had Lawrence burned alive on a gridiron. Why the Aug. 10 meteors should be named St. Lawrence's "tears," it is hard to say. For he was most brave in the midst of his torment. He is said to have exclaimed: "I am roasted enough on this side; turn me over and eat."
That grotesque history snippet from this article from TIME.... published in 1926.

Photo: A CC Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licensed composite image of the 2009 Perseid meteor shower, by aresauburn.

Addendum: Boing Boing reader "Eck" says,

There's a longstanding theory that although Lawrence was martyred, the lore of his being cooked alive stems from a simple scribal error. The Latin for "he suffered" is "passus est"; drop one letter by mistake and you have "assus est" (he was roasted). (Link)

I hadn't know this before, but the theory was evidently first propounded by Pio Franchi de Cavalieri in "S[an] Lorenzo e il supplicio della graticola," Roemische Quartalschrift t[ome] XIV (1900). That, at least, is what Analecta Bollandia tomus XVIII has to say:

M[onsieur] P[io] F[ranchi] s'arrete a peine, et il a raison, a l'hypothese qui reduirait l'explication a une question de paleographie: on aurait lu assus est pour passus est. (Link, at 453.)

GQ: Woman claims to have been kidnapped by Rand Paul, forced to take bong hits

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:39 AM PDT

GQ quotes an anonymous woman who claims to have been kidnapped and forced to take bong hits during her college years by Tea Party spokesdouche and segregation apologist Rand Paul (famously humiliated a few months back by Rachel Maddow):

He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no.
GQ Exclusive: Rand Paul's Kooky College Days (Hint: There's a Secret Society Involved) (via HuffPo, via Greg Mitchell)

Photo, via GQ: A 1983 photo of Rand Paul (dressed in black robe and straw hat) with fellow members of the NoZe secret society he is reported to have been a member of in college ("[A] cross between Yale's Skull & Bones and Harvard's Lampoon").

Snapshot of the Sun, amid a solar storm

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:07 AM PDT

A striking image of our sun released this week from NASA:

After a long solar minimum, the Sun is no longer so quiet. On August 1, this extreme ultraviolet snapshot of the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a complex burst of activity playing across the Sun's northern hemisphere. The false-color image shows the hot solar plasma at temperatures ranging from 1 to 2 million kelvins. Along with the erupting filaments and prominences, a small(!) solar flare spawned in the active region at the left was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME), a billion-ton cloud of energetic particles headed for planet Earth.



Mold-A-Rama machines at the Henry Ford Museum

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:46 AM PDT

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a pop art gallery in Takayama, Japan called Tomenosuke Syoten. On display were some wax dinosaurs made by Mold-A-Rama machines. I followed up the post with a link to an article about Mold-A-Rama machines.

Days later, I came across a bunch of Mold-A-Rama machines when I was at the Henry Ford Museum for Maker Faire Detroit. The first one I spotted was next to the Weinermoble and, naturally, it made little models of the Weinermobile. I inserted two dollars into the machine and a minute later, I was the proud owner of a piping hot model Weinermobile.

After the jump, a video of the Mold-A-Rama machine in action, more photos of Mold-A-Rama machines, and an unfortunate bust of President Lincoln.

After admiring the graceful Weinermobile, I spotted the Mold-A-Rama against the wall and made a beeline for it.



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I was so excited that I kept putting my dollar bills into the machine the wrong way. Lucky for you, I edited that part out of the following video.






Here's the model, cast in eye-scorchingly red wax.

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For hours of fun, compare the model above to the real Weinermobile. Can you spot the differences - there are over 800!


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I'm sorry I didn't get a model of Rosa Parks' bus.

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My friend Joe bought a bust of President Lincoln.


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This is how it came out of the machine. We suspect the machine was sabotaged by a descendent of John Wilkes Booth.


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More on Indiana State Fair's doughnut burgers and fried everything

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:28 AM PDT

Yesterday, I posted my brother Mark Pescovitz's photos from the Indiana State Fair showing the availability of such delicacies as Hot Beef Sundaes, Doughnut Burgers, and Fried Butter. The Indianpolis Star also took note of the unique food offerings, which also included chocolate-covered bacon and an array of other healthy snacks, most of which are cooked up by one family of fair food entrepreneurs. From the Indy Star (photo by Mark Pescovitz):
Photo-22 Visitors through Aug. 22 can sample a hog's trough of oddball fair foods: deep-fried sushi, deep-fried dill pickles, deep-fried candy bars, chocolate-covered popcorn balls, root-beer marinated ribs and the garbage burger -- a pork patty covered with pulled pork on a bun, the Signature Food in the fair's "Year of Pigs." But it was the deep-fried butter and doughnut burgers that drew the customers and the "just curious" on Friday.

(Vendor Dennis Reas) said he might offer jelly with the burgers in Indianapolis, a common customer request he wasn't prepared to hear at earlier stops.

Customer Danny Shields, 22, Indianapolis, said the burger was well worth the price. He got one with bacon and egg, which can be added for an extra cost.

"Doughnut burger judged 'awesome'" (Thanks, vonnegutlives!)



Neuromarketing and the cover of New Scientist

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:03 AM PDT

As regular BB readers know, neuromarketing is the use of brain imaging and other physiological monitoring to directly measure consumer preference, for example, or the effectiveness of advertisements. As part of a New Scientist feature on neuromarketing this week, researchers from the firm NeuroFocus watched EEG readings of 19 people as they looked at different potential magazine cover designs. They were then tested to see how each cover scored on concepts like "eye-catching", "intriguing" and "must-buy". Seen here is the winner. I'd be curious to understand more about why this design scored higher than others. Maybe it's the word "sex" in the illustration. Or the subtle silhouette of a woman performing fellatio. Or maybe I'm kididng. From New Scientist:
Data Images Ns Cms Mg20727721.300 Mg20727721.300-1 300 NeuroFocus looks for specific EEG patterns which the company believes betray whether or not a person will buy a product. In its early days, the company studied thousands of TV commercials looking for characteristic patterns of brain activity associated with successful and unsuccessful ads. It is these they are after. "It's not deterministic, but it gives a relative probability, given two adverts, which is more likely to change behaviour," says Michael Smith of NeuroFocus.

Finally, NeuroFocus does what it calls "deep response testing". This exploits a well-known EEG signal called P300, a spike of brain activity that occurs about 300 milliseconds after you see something new or personally meaningful. "That brain wave is interesting because it's bigger if the stimulus is very salient to you," says Smith. NeuroFocus uses this to find out if test materials have primed people's brains to certain concepts. If the P300 response to a word like "buy" is stronger just after seeing an advert, the researchers conclude that the advert is more likely to elicit a purchase.

"Mind-reading marketers have ways of making you buy"

Church protests strip club, and vice versa

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 09:41 AM PDT

For several years, New Beginnings Ministries pastor Bill Dunfee and members of his flock have protested outside the Foxhole strip club in the small town of Warsaw, Ohio. They carry signs and bullhorns, and post images of customers' license plates online. Now, the Foxhole dancers have started protesting outside of the New Beginnings church, "wearing see-through shorts and toting Super Soakers," according to the Columbus Dispatch:
"These church people say horrible things about us," (Foxhole dancer Gina) Hughes said. "They say we're homewreckers and whores. The fact of the matter is, we're working to keep our own homes together, to give our kids what they need."

Dunfee said it's not that simple. He said he consistently offers the women help, a chance at redemption.

"I tell them, 'I will put a roof over your heads, and your bills will be paid, and your children's bellies will be full,'" he said. Yet they don't come inside.

The first few weeks, Dunfee piped the sermon outside. But that "agitated" them, he said, and made them dance in the streets.

He said their presence has united his church members and reinvigorated their mission to shut down the club.

"They have now seen the evil firsthand," Dunfee said. "This has just made us stronger."

"Churchgoers, strippers protest one another in Coshocton County"
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