The concept of a "Google Body" program in terms of a variant of 3D-mapper Google Earth may not be that far off -- for instance, NBC11 once reported that eHumans.com (which tries to map the human body in accessible 3D) was also talking to Google for this project. (My requests for comments from eHumans.com have been ignored by the way, so I don't know if Google actually ever did get involved in any way.)

"Mickey Mouse" is "Micky Maus" (or "Mickymaus") in Germany, by the way.

I guess the Diysney character was a product of its time. Steamboat Willie, the first Mickey Mouse movie, itself copied some aspects of Buster Keaton, I heard, and Felix the Cat also doesn't look too different from Mickey and had been around and populr earlier. But this creative evolution is normal, everyone of us gets inspired by what we see around us and we adjust and adapt and improve -- and laws should allow us to do so, too...

Link to SharpBrains blog is broken at this time, leads to "http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/15/tracks%20scientific%20advances%20related%20to%20cognitive%20fitness%20and"

I'm late to the party, but also wanted to comment how I think it's funny & slightly silly that one English title is "translated" into another English title.

"Miss Congeniality" was transformed into the apparently-dumbed-down English "Miss Undercover" here :)

There's many more cases of these, does someone have a list?

The trend in general is to not translate e.g. movie titles in the first place. "Star Wars" was "Krieg der Sterne" (literally: "War of Stars"!) in Germany during the original trilogy, but is now just "Star Wars" for the follow-up trilogy (parts 1-3).

Agree with previous commenters, my first thought too was it looks to fancy; the intro, the backgrounds, the player, even the way Xeni speaks. I'd prefer something more casual, natural, raw, authentic. Also, I thought some of the bits were passing by a bit too quickly and you didn't quite get the point. A more natural speaking style with non-prepared bits, but just normal talking -- like you'd talk to a buddy! -- might help here too. Plus, maybe more subtitles to indicate the segment or URL etc., this might also aid "scrolling" through the video via the time slider.

On a technical note, the streaming wasn't smooth, maybe you guys need to change to lower quality, I think quick streaming is a little bit more important. Not sure what player this is, but YouTube might make it easier for people to handle & embed it as they're used to it. Another technical note, the player somehow interferes with this comment box, partly causing you to not be able to type here.

I'm sure the format will evolve, interesting start.

Lots of Samurais can be seen today:

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/110036.html#id110160

Good points you're making. It's not really a government on its own, or a tech company on its own, that can cause dangerous situations. It's when the two get together; the amoral technological genius on the one side and the immoral technological idiot on the other.

Not to compare the Google situation to it, but as an explanation of the general problem, Adolf Hitler and Thomas Watson was such a relationship, detailed in the book "IBM and the Holocaust." On that note, you forget history, it's bound to repeat itself -- why is IBM not mentioning any of this in their history pages?
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1930.html

This is the wrong comic to give to a teen. The teacher should've handed out one of the earlier Eightball issues, like 1-15, the short stories following the "like a velvet glove" ongoing series were the best IMO. :)

I only get a "suspended" message on that link. But I once bought a coffee table book as gift which had exactly this idea. People were photographed, had to fill out a form with their info & hobbies and stuff, and then dumped their bag's containments for a photo...

"Service Temporarily Unavailable"

> Despite the dialog being totally
> unrealistic, it was still a decent read.

The license allows you to change all dialog :)

Cool. I reposted this at Google Blogoscoped.

Hilarious stuff.

Why not check out an internet cafe there and browse around a bit to bring home some eye-witness censorship scope reports...
At least you don't risk being beaten up or jailed for reporting on it back home.

This the new star wars kid, such as?

> Can you please do something about the size
> of the fonts?
>
> Site redesigns are inevitable, but not
> being able to adjust the size of a main
> font in any web site is inexcuseable.

Though the font seems to be smaller than default, it's also showing slightly larger here for quotes (the old quotes font size on Boing Boing was ridiculously small)... but Ctrl + Pluskey works on Firefox, so I'm not sure exactly what problem you mention...

Excellent redesign. Love it.