Lots of folks seem to be talking about the latest linkbait Wired story claiming that the web is dead, based on this graphic (built off of Cisco data):TechDirt has the real scoop

Really, does anything more need to be said?   Patrick, where were you when this was filmed??

At Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on fan movie artWhile a lot of fan art is just a time-killing diversion, some of it is valuable because it situates P.R. material within a larger conversation about what, exactly, constitutes good design.Including when the fake art is so interesting people assume it is real, like for this "Deadpool" 2011 movie ...

This guy is really talented.   As Anita Ashbaugh wrote, "As I was watching this I was thinking "how cool" because it's a skeleton. If the marionette had been a clown, for instance, I'd have wanted to claw out my eyes in an attempt to unsee the horror":

A group of former Scienceblogs.com folks have created Scientificblogging.org - an aggregator for science blogs.

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From Brain Windows: Ephus is a modular Matlab-based electrophysiology program that can control and record many channels of tools and data simultaneously.  ScanImage is another Matlab-related software program that is used for optical imaging and stimulation of neurons in vitro and in vivo.  Neuroptikon is a sophisticated network visualization tool. It can build Van Essen-like diagrams of any circuit you like ...

Star Wars Uncut, the fan-made remake of Star Wars done by hundreds of nerds in 15-second increments is finished, and it is ... well, what you might expect.

Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with excessive levels of radioactivity. In fact, the numbers are higher than ever before.

Scitable is part of of Nature Publishing Group, which is the publisher of Nature, Scientific American and about 70 other magazines.   Vikram Savkar, Scitable's SVP of publishing, says "Scitable is an online learning space for science and what that means is that it has a library of very high quality content that we have created." He continued, "It's not crowd-sourced Wiki(pedia) content. It's content that editorially we've commissioned and reviewed and vetted in all the life sciences."