My office mate claims this doesn't really look like me - but meh.. it's close enough. I've challenged her to do a better job.

There's a neat little program over at the Simpsons Movie website that allows you to create your own Simpsons Avatar. Check it out!

This weeks Pseudoscience of the past is brought to you (again) by the New York Times from November 21, 1851. In this episode we demonstrate how you can tell nearly everything about a person from...wait for it.... wait..... yes! Their Hat!

Now this isn't something you can tell from how fashionable the hat is - but instead, people's hats conform to the shape of their skulls. So basically if you have a sloping head of a certain shape you are a revolutionary and all that one would need to do to determine if you have a treasonous head is to do a little hat measuring!

I'm seeing it now...
"Sir, this is a hat checkpoint. Please remove your hat for measurements"

And don't miss the greatest line in the article, "and with a scientific zeal worthy of all encouragement, have followed up the system so effectually as to arrive at a man's political views, by examining his beaver."

Here's the wonderful article in full:

I do get the idea that perhaps the author might be making fun of this whole idea a bit - but I'm not really sure. What do you guys think? does the journalist take this seriously?

Check out the interview Bora scored over at A Blog Around The Clock. Of course it's an interview with a politician so it doesn't really say anything earth shattering ;) But it's well worth checking out.