MetaFilter posts tagged with mouse

It's Thursday evening in the 21st century and I still don't have a jetpack. And now mice can hover. It's unfair.

ardgedee — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:39:04 -0800

Somewhere on Earth, in a laboratory, a mouse is levitating. Science is awesome.

Ganesh Chaturthi

hadjiboy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:43:52 -0800

Mouse. No, not that one… hmmm, no, not this one either… this one. He’s a part of the Ganesh Charturthi Festival that’s taking place here, and you are all welcome to watch.

What's Opera, Doc?

litterateur — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:34:35 -0800

And now presenting the 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons!

"All I got in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break either of 'em for nobody!"

bigmusic — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:43:12 -0800

Before the mouse, there was the trackball. Built for DATAR in 1952, DATAR turned out to be a complete failure. The next user interface device that used a ball was the mouse at Xeroc Parc in 1972. Trackballs are a dying breed of interface devices. But sometimes a trackball just seems more natural choice for certain applications - not so obvious for others. Would you sit on one?

Dark Night Of The Soul

forallmankind — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:41:29 -0800

Full Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse album Dark Night of the Soul is streaming right now on NPR. Info about album dispute here.

Mother of All Demos

honest knave — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:06:57 -0800

Forty years ago, Douglas Engelbart gave the Mother of All Demos. In this demo, he introduced the mouse (the trackball had been around for 16 years already), the hyperlink (simultaneously invented by Ted Nelson), word processing conventions, expanding hierarchical views of files, image links, group annotations of documents, collaborative editing, separation between views and models, and user testing of productivity software. SRI went on to Xerox PARC, where the Graphical User Interface and laser printing were later developed. Those of you in the Stanford area may wish to attend the 40th anniversary bash from 1-5:30pm on 9 Dec at the Stanford University Memorial Auditorium. Engelbart pioneered research into the use of computers for the augmentation of human capabilities. In the academic world, this research is continued by researchers in Human Computer Interaction and Hypertext. The original computer systems which ran Engelbart's demo are very rare now, which is why the Computer History Museum is working on a preservation project to clone NLS. Speaking of history, Engelbart participated in an oral history a few years back. Modern software which is similar to NLS or descended from it would include Tinderbox, NoteTaker, NoteBook, and MyInfo. Ted Goranson at ATPM has a wonderful series of reviews on NLS-alikes and what makes good ones good. All of this innovation from Doug did not make him a rich man. But he carries on his initial vision toward an Open Hypermedia System under the auspices of the Bootstrap Institute. Others have taken the idea of augmentation in completely different directions. (previously here, and here)

Beat that, Algernon!

MaryDellamorte — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:12:49 -0800

"The world's longest and hardest mouse agility course," brought to you by these guys. Don't forget to browse the gallery of cute mouse and rat pictures.

Please Say Something........any answer will do

not_on_display — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:05:56 -0800

Please Say Something -- ten quick animated episodes starring Mouse and Cat. [description] | More animation by David O'Reilly, creator of the "award-winning destructive and massively overrated" RGB XYZ [previously on MeFi]. | [be warned: some animations NSFW for language; jarring sounds and flashing colors in places.]

Mighty mouse conquers cancer

greatgefilte — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:49:32 -0800

1999: Researchers at Wake Forest University discover an incredible oddity: a mouse resistant to many forms of cancer. The resistance is found to be inherited (Pubmed link). 2006: They show that cancer resistance can be transferred (Pubmed link) to non-resistant mice. 2008: They've found that the resistance is mediated through blood cells called granulocytes, and that some humans potentially have the same ability to resist cancer. Now they need your help. Also: the discoverer, Zheng Cui, describes "The winding road to the discovery of the SR/CR mice". Just another instance of Asimov's famous quip, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny...'" Makes you wonder why they haven't found the mutation that causes the resistance, though.

Underthinking a plate of cheese

not_on_display — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:13:18 -0800

How to catch a mouse without a mousetrap. Previously. Turnabout is fair play.

of mice and men and women

nickyskye — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:22:10 -0800

Nine Ways to Make Your Mouse Roar l elegantly hand painted mouse l visual mouse software l Mouser: Operate your mouse with your keyboard Supercharge Your Mouse How Computer Mice Work MouseSite, a resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. First mouse (1964)

fear stinks

leibniz — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:50:01 -0800

A mouse has been genetically engineered to no longer fear cats. Surely this is now only a matter of time. There's plenty of research into the capacity to smell fear. And even stuff on the fear of smell. But less on what fear actually smells like. Some researchers working on the link between smell and emotions.

Somewhere, over the brainbow...

kisch mokusch — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:09:26 -0800

Brainbow. Using some very cool genetic tricks, Harvard scientists have found a way to make transgenic mice that express various mixtures of different coloured fluorescent proteins in their neurons. The result, individual brain cells with up to 90 distinct colours. Not surprisingly, this visually impressive work is in this month's issue of Nature.

Mouse, that is.

Armitage Shanks — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:23:35 -0800

Ugly Mickey. [via]

Wind thy Self

Alex404 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:58:02 -0800

Some of you likely have read, The Mouse and His Child. Some of you may remember the movie. It is not in print. Here it is on YouTube.

I, for one, welcome...

delmoi — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:43:30 -0800

[scifilter] Scientists use a supercomputer to simulate a biological neural structure "as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain"

That's got to be a joke... right?

Fofer — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:00:28 -0800

On Sunday, April 1, ThinkGeek.com jokingly introduced the 8-bit Tie, and due to customer demand, claims that now it'll be a real product. On Friday, April 13, apparently due to customer demand, hard drive manufacturer WiebeTech has now introduced the MouseJiggler, and claims it's not a joke.

The Phantom Compass Syndrome

Malor — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:27:41 -0800

Hacking the Senses: The brain is far more plastic than we commonly realize. Presenting new 'senses' via the old inputs works extremely well, to the point that long-term volunteers are a little lost without their new abilities to feel magnetic north or absolute orientation. Tasting direction; feeling pictures. Fascinating stuff. In a loosely related article, genetically modified mice are able to see the full color range visible to humans, even though the last natural mouse able to see this way died out a hundred million years ago. Add the new sensors, and the brain reconfigures. [via]

Dead Animal Art

dios — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:30:51 -0800

Still lifes of dead animals.

We've got big balls

the giant pill — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:49:53 -0800

Mouse balls aren't the only testes that can heal. PrimeGen Biotech has announced just a few days later that they have discovered the same thing in human balls. That was quick.

How do I clear my google cache again?

hindmost — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:08:03 -0800

I'm embarassed for my mice to have to say this but ... Their testicles are HUGE, like almost as big as their heads. Good thing for humanity too, as mice testicles may provide a source of stem cells free of the usual ethical considerations.They may also hold the solutions to transplant rejection and infertility. Is there anything those fuzzy globes can't do?

Apple in two-button mouse shocker

Mwongozi — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:21:52 -0800

Mouse? Trackball? One button? Two? Now, thanks to Apple, you can have all four.

150m year-old termite eater

dfowler — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:17:06 -0800

Who ate termites first?
Ancient rat-like, mammals.

L33tMouseSkillz

srboisvert — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:37:38 -0800

Mouse Skill Tester. Friday Fun or Friday Frustration depending on your temperament.

MouseCount!

Ufez Jones — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:42:40 -0800

MouseCount counts the number of times you click your mouse--information useful to computer usage studies, ergonomics, repetitive stress measurement, and more. This program saves you the trouble of counting all those clicks yourself! Screw that, I'm just a curious dork. (fyi: link goes to description page only, but the download is a .zip file)