“See, the future is already here. All you have to do is notice.” — Warren Ellis, via his e-mail mailing list, Bad Signal
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I was just about to note, with some amusement, that Scott McCloud and his wife named their two children Winter and Sky (as revealed in Neil Gaiman’s online journal). But it looks like Sharon already beat me to it.
Oh well. Let me then point out McCloud’s daily improvisational comic (currently on hiatus but still bizarrely amusing enough to merit a visit). You can also suggest titles for McCloud to use.
“Do you think it’s getting too weird around here?”
“Absolutely.”
– Real Genius
Hey there to everybody visiting me from . And thanks to Sharon for this neat little trick.
Because I know not everyone reads Metafilter or Boing Boing — geez, what do you do all day? — and because I think it’s interesting: scientists create big-brained mice.
We’re not exactly talking Pinky and the Brain here, of course. The mice were killed soon after birth, and their relative intelligence was not tested. Increased brain folds don’t necessarily mean increased smarts. And, as I mentioned at Boing Boing, I’m reminded of something Roger Ebert wrote in his review of “Deep Blue Sea”:
“Its premise is that the shark brains have been increased fivefold, with a corresponding increase in intelligence, so that the sharks can figure out the layout of the station and work together to batter down watertight doors, swim down corridors, etc. The most obvious problem with this premise is that just because a shark is smarter doesn’t mean it has more information; the smartest shark in the world would only know how to be a smart shark unless it had a way to learn.”
Of course, this is all just assuming that Earth isn’t just an enormous super-computer built by mice…