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Word of the Day

Pooterish (adj., POOH-turr-ish)

Describing someone who takes himself or herself too seriously. The term comes from "The Diary of a Nobody", a late 1800s fictional diary that was a serial and later a book. The book's main character was Mr. Charles Pooter, and amazingly that's not the silliest name associated with it. That belongs to the book's illustrator, Weedon Grossmith, whose parents apparently liked pooterish names.

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Link of the Day

The Imagination Machine

Each of us has a place we want to travel to, whether somewhere we haven't been, somewhere where a friend or family is located, or a place we've wanted to return to. We have mental images of what those places look like.

S7 Airlines has made a game that lets you win tickets to your special place by virtually flying a plane there by concentrating on the place. The game tracks the player's brain waves and flies an airplane based on the patterns:

My two favorite things about the video: how many people are watching the players fly the airplane and (nerd alert) the sound design. Even the video feels like a big, warm, epic experience..

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