I'm a bit more left-brained than right-brained, but they're pretty close

Not that that will surprise anyone...

You Are 60% Left Brained, 40% Right Brained

The left side of your brain controls verbal ability, attention to detail, and reasoning. Left brained people are good at communication and persuading others. If you're left brained, you are likely good at math and logic. Your left brain prefers dogs, reading, and quiet. The right side of your brain is all about creativity and flexibility. Daring and intuitive, right brained people see the world in their unique way. If you're right brained, you likely have a talent for creative writing and art. Your right brain prefers day dreaming, philosophy, and sports.

Are You Right or Left Brained?

Just a little tune I found

Click the link to listen.

Experiment Shows You Really Should 'Sleep On It'

According to a research study at the University of Lubeck (in Germany), people are twice as likely to discover a shortcut answer to a mathematical conundrum if allowed to sleep for eight hours.

Tunnel to U.S. starts inside Mexican home

Ha! Authorities found an elaborate tunnel that leads from a Mexican residence to Calexico, on the US side of the border.

I sent this link in to John & Ken (on KFI 640 in Los Angeles); it'll be interesting to see if they mention it on their show this afternoon.

Science of Cooking

This link is especially for my wife, who is a scientist and also one heck of a cook. Enjoy!

Firefox update helps prevent Web site spoofing

Firefox 1.0.1 has now been released. Aside from the whole "spoofing fix," I find it also runs much faster on Mac OS X.

Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control

This page defies explanation... just go there and watch this guy's hamsters control a musical composition.

Google movies: now playing

This is an awesome new feature of Google: a movie showtimes search. This is way better than Yahoo!'s movies in that it's just so more lightweight, doing away with all of the "My Yahoo!" baggage that just slows down the whole Web browsing experience. You can just type in "movie: theaters [yourzipcode]" (sans quotes and with an appropriate replacement, of course) and instantly you see all movies playing at nearby theaters. If you're looking for a particular flick, you can substitute "movies" for "theaters" in that search string to see the results grouped by movie title instead of by theater. The results link to bazillions of movie reviews; if it didn't, it wouldn't be Google. Also, the theaters that have online ticket purchase available through movietickets.com have links to their ordering pages right from the Google results.

The really cool part is, if you've got a Google cookie in your browser for your home location (i.e. you've said "remember this address" on Google Maps or Google Local), you don't even need to type in your zip code.

The one downside, as I see it, is that there's no easy way to get these results onto a handheld via AvantGo (or any similar site-grabbing tool, but of course AG is the most popular). I tried creating a custom AvantGo channel out of the search results page for my local theaters, and it was not only slow to load (even without images!), the formatting was horrible.

If Google were to make a "tailor-made for handheld screens" version of this, I would have it on my Tungsten in a flash.

Software learns to translate by reading up

I think this is a great idea; computers learning language structure by reading books in various translations.

As long as it doesn't end up with something like this.

YES, Inc.

AWESOME! This service allows you to check the playlists of radio stations. It looks like the list of stations is pretty exhaustive, too...