"I'm going to take a picture of my firstborn and use age progression
sofware to figure out what he'll look like when he's 16. Then I'm
going to frame the picture and keep it as a centerpeice in our house,
something he'll grow up looking at. Then when the appropriate time
comes, and he realizes that the picture is of him, I'm going to try
and convince him that he is a time traveller."

Lifted from lamebook.

"This colourful new map traces the subtle but all pervasive influence the pull of gravity has across the globe.

Known as a geoid, it essentially defines where the level surface is on our planet; it tells us which way is "up" and which way is "down".

It is drawn from delicate measurements made by Europe's Goce satellite, which flies so low it comes perilously close to falling out of the sky. "

"Brain activity of the experienced surfers was far more extensive than that of the newbies, particularly in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem-solving and decisionmaking. Small then had his subjects read normal blocks of text projected onto their goggles; in this case, scans revealed no significant difference in areas of brain activation between the two groups. The evidence suggested, then, that the distinctive neural pathways of experienced Web users had developed because of their Internet use."

"In case you wondered about the power of Twitter, Coke would like to tell you that it?s ?phenominal?. After the company purchased the second ever ?promoted tweet?, it saw 85 million impressions the first 24 hours.

According to articles on Yahoo Finance and the Financial Times, those 85 million impressions translated to a rate of 6% engagement, versus a typical .02% for any other type of online ad."