Cody Taylor

Which part of your brain does what? Take a tour with this slide show.

Nothing makes the economy appear sound like scores of corporations lining up to spend million for a 30-second advertisement that may or may not help their company.

There seems to be no shortage of the impressive art gamers are both willing to pay for and have etched into their skin. Kotaku reader Aaron S. sent in this one, which he says is a picture of his friend. Not him. Because that’s a lady that sat in a chair while Solid Snake was rendered up and down her midriff. Wow.

We’ve already seen that Twitter is turning into a source of breaking news. But it’s also clearly turning into a way of organising social movements extremely quickly. “Tweetup” (as in a meetup facilitated by Twitter) has passed into common parlance amongst regular users but now the concept has spawned a global event for charity.

Google recently started placing ads on its image search and finance properties, both of which were previously free of marketing messages. The changes highlight how Google is trying to squeeze more money from its business during tough financial times.

Americans may still possess what the 19th-century historian Frederick Jackson Turner described as “an antipathy to control,” but lately, they seem willing to submit themselves to an unprecedented dose of it. A financial collapse – falling, ironically, on the supposedly anti-Washington Republicans’ watch – has only increased this.

Eton launches the world’s most expensive shirt, the Eton Diamond Shirt. This exclusive shirt is worth , 000. Woven from the finest Egyptian cotton and detailed with natural colored diamond studs.

Bush, you sly dog you.

According a report on i-hacked.com, the programmable road signs that are ubiquitous these days are often unprotected against being re-programmed by unauthorized people.

“But our wedding is in four months!” I flashed forward to an image of me in a wedding gown with a shaved head. Just what every groom wants, I thought.