Hack into Awesomeness through Google Gravity

Google Gravity was launched back in Mar 18, 2009 according to the date posted on the author site. The effect behind the creation of the Google Gravity is actually javascript with the extension box2d-js. It allow you to play with the element from Google homepage where all the thing in the site will simply breaks apart and fall down. And yet you can’t stop searching what you need you know.

“Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.”

How to Play/ Enable Google Gravity ‘I am Feeling Lucky’?

• Visit Google.
• Turn off the Google Instant Search
• Type in Google Gravity into the search box.
• Click on I’m Feeling Lucky button.
• Move the mouse.
• You can start play with Google Gravity enjoy

OR

• Go to MrDoob.com and you could start play with Google Gravity immediately.

How Google Gravity ‘I am Feeling Lucky’ Works

So you are in the Google Gravity right now? Ok let me explain how that work actually, when you click the ‘I am feeling Lucky’ button you are being redirected to other page which is not Google.com, check out your address bar and you will notice that. But how do you end up with the page when you click the ‘I am feeling lucky’ button? What this button does is that it takes you directly to the topmost result of a search result by bypassing the search result page. Try typing any search word in Google and hitting ‘I am feeling lucky’ button. What do you find? Now try this, type ‘Google Gravity” in Google.com but this time hit the search button instead. What happens? Yes you are taken to the search result page. Not click on the topmost result. Can you see the Google homepage losing its gravity?

Why make the elements in the page to lose their gravity? As mention above it is due to the effect of the JavaScript and box2d-js embedded in the page.

8 Tricks of Google Gravity

Well guys what kind of tricks you could play with the Google Gravity?

Trick 1. Move Them Around

If you thought that once the elements fall down, that’s the end of the magic - you are wrong, its the beginning. Try holding any piece. To hold a piece click and hold the element and drag then around the screen. You can grab and move all the pieces.

Trick 2. Drop Them

In addition to the above one, you will see that once you un-grab the elements (by leaving the mouse button) it falls below. Well its like the real world you see, gravity is acting over here.

Trick 3. Hit Them Hard

Its the fun part. Grab any piece and use it to hil others. Fun. Also the size of the element you are using has effect on the force it generates. Try using the logo or the search-bar.

Trick 4. The Pendulum

Hold the Google logo by one of its sides and hold it up and shake it, It starts to oscillate like a pendulum. Try spinning it around!!!

Trick 5. Shake Effects

Restore the window to a smaller size. Now hold the window and try shaking it around. Didn’t expected the elements to move around that way? Well it does!!!

Trick 6. Enlarge Effect

While the window is still restored to a small size, maximize the window and see the elements jump.

Trick 7. It’s Alive

If you have not realized it already, all the elements in the screen is actually working. All the links, buttons, radio-buttons work exactly in the same way they meant to be. Try typing on the search-bar,,,

Trick 8. Search Still Working

This is the one which very few people actually know. Try typing any query into the search-bar and click the search button (or if you cant find it in the debris hit the enter button). WOW! Right? The results are dumped into the screen as if by some invisible hands. Again these links are actual results and are working.

This is what i found when i tried it for my name, check it out:

Red Sox walk off on top

Reddick’s hit in 10th beats NY, wins series.

The Red Sox and Yankees are virtually equal in every possible way except one: when they actually play each other.

Last night the Sox completed a taxing weekend series against their rivals with a walkoff 3-2 victory in 10 innings at Fenway Park. Josh Reddick did the honors with a line-drive single to left field off Phil Hughes.
The winning run was only made possible because the Sox did what they’ve done more than any team in history — get to Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who blew his 14th save against them by allowing Marco Scutaro’s leadoff double and Dustin Pedroia’s tying sacrifice fly.

The victory means the Red Sox are now 10-2 against the Yankees and gave them a one-game lead atop the AL East.

“Sometimes you just don’t have explanations,” manager Terry Francona said. “Right now we’ve beaten them more than they’ve beaten us. That’s all I know. Other teams have done it to us. It’s kind of a crazy game.”
While Scutaro (4-for-4) and Reddick were obvious heroes, the game ultimately came down to the respective bullpens, the one area where the Yankees were supposed to hold a clear, albeit slight, advantage. Their 3.07 bullpen ERA entering the game led the AL, four spots ahead of the Red Sox (3.50).
After Matt Albers surrendered the go-ahead homer to light-hitting Brett Gardner in the seventh, the quartet of Franklin Morales, Dan Wheeler, Jonathan Papelbon, and Daniel Bard held the Yankees scoreless.
“I’d put us up against anybody,” Bard said. “Not just the numbers, but the depth. Everyone wants to pitch. I’ve been in bullpens where guys didn’t want the ball. We’ve got guys that’ll take the ball in any situation — seven of them out there. Eight of them, actually. When it’s all said and done, I think we’ll be saying this is one of the better ’pens in the league and maybe that we’ve had in a while.”
The Sox had more depth last night, winning it against former starter Hughes, who allowed a one-out double to David Ortiz, an intentional walk to Carl Crawford (three hits) and a walkoff single by Reddick that scored pinch-runner Darnell McDonald.
“He’s not intimidated by anyone,” starter Josh Becket said of Reddick.
That the game would stretch into a second day and take 4 hours, 15 minutes to play was fitting. The Red Sox guaranteed themselves a winning record in the season series for the first time since 2004.
The Yankees were hoping for a drama-free finish, but it didn’t happen.
After Rafael Soriano and David Robertson pitched a scoreless seventh and eighth, respectively, Rivera got ahead of Scutaro 0-2 before the shortstop ripped a double high off The Wall.
Jacoby Ellsbury followed with a sacrifice bunt, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi left himself open to some second-guessing by electing to pitch to Pedroia with first base open rather than intentionally walk him and set up the double play for the slow-footed Adrian Gonzalez.
Neither option was palatable, to be sure, but Pedroia made the Yankees pay when he ripped the game-tying sacrifice fly to left field.
Up until that point, the pace was such that commisioner Bud Selig probably considered firing off an angry memo. Both Beckett and Yankees counterpart Freddy Garcia were deliberate, to say the least, perhaps sensing the game would be decided by a mistake.
Offense was hard to come by on both sides.

The Red Sox struck first in the second inning, with Scutaro driving home Kevin Youkilis with a single.
New York tied the game in the fifth on Eduardo Nunez’ solo homer into the Monster seats.

Neither starter lasted more than six innings. Garcia threw 96 pitches in five innings, while Beckett tossed 101 in six.

Red Sox Monday:

• + Four-sighted Scutaro
• + Crawford takes right turn on left
• + Francona eager to get Lowrie’s bat in mix

-— jtomase@bostonherald.com

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Sean Kingston Walks First Red Carpet Since Accident

Looking good, Sean!

After enduring a harrowing recovery from being critically injured in a jet ski crash on May 29, Sean Kingston was all smiles at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards in Universal City on Sunday.


Kingston, 21, stepped out on the Gibson Amphitheatre's red carpet for his first public appearance since the incident, clad in a bright red vest, white T-shirt, jeans, and gold jewelry.

The Jamaican-American singer recently opened up to MTV about his near-fatal accident, which occurred over Memorial Day weekend when the watercraft he was driving crashed under a small bridge, injuring him and his passenger.
"A lot of people don't know it was a deeper situation," the "Beautiful Girls" singer said. "I had open heart surgery and I had two other surgeries."

Doctors had to operate on Kingston multiple times when they discovered that his aorta was torn and blood was filling his chest. But the star, who in addition suffered a broken jaw, fractured wrist, and water in his lungs, made a miraculous full recovery. "I'm 100 percent right now," he said. "What the accident basically taught me is, in life, you have to count your blessings."

Adam Scott bags Bridgestone victory

The chants and cheers began as Adam Scott walked toward the 18th green to complete a command performance yesterday in the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio, and win his first World Golf Championship.

But in a surreal scene at Firestone, they weren’t for him.

They were for his caddie.

“Stev-ie Will-iams,’’ they shouted as Scott’s new partner broke into a big smile.

The celebration made it clear that Steve Williams felt vindicated after being fired last month by Tiger Woods. The interview after it was over - yes, he gave interviews - made it sound as if it was Williams who shot the 5-under-par 65. At one point, Williams described himself as a “good front-runner when I’m caddying.’’

“I’ve caddied for 33 years - 145 wins now - and that’s the best win I’ve ever had,’’ Williams said on the 18th green. This from a guy whose 12 years working for Woods featured 13 majors and 16 world titles among 72 wins worldwide. That includes the 2001 Masters, when Woods won an unprecedented fourth straight major.

Clearly, Williams is still angry over how - and when - Woods cut him loose. He disputed Woods’s version of how it happened, saying Woods told him over the phone, not in person.

Scott didn’t seem to mind that his caddie was getting most of the attention.

“I can talk about Steve now and not Tiger,’’ Scott said to laughter, alluding to the countless times he and other players have been asked about Woods. “I’m sure there are a lot of other golfers who wouldn’t mind that, either.’’

The latest chapter in the endless saga involving Woods took away from a premier performance by Scott, who didn’t make a bogey over his last 26 holes and couldn’t afford to with 19-year-old Ryo Ishikawa giving him all he could handle.

They were never separated by more than a shot until Scott chipped in from the side of the 12th green, then rolled in a birdie putt from just inside 30 feet on the 14th to build a three-shot lead. Ishikawa three-putted the 15th, and Scott had no trouble closing this one out.

He wound up winning by four shots over world No. 1 Luke Donald (66) and Rickie Fowler, who played a final round worthy of a winner with a bogey-free 66.

Ishikawa made a bogey on the last hole to tie for fourth with Jason Day. They both shot 69. For the Japanese star, it was his highest finish in America.

Scott finished at 17-under 263, the lowest score to win at Firestone since Woods had 259 in 2000 in an 11-shot win.

Former Hopkinton High School star Keegan Bradley, who entered the round tied for third just two strokes back, shot a 74 and finished T15.

With a three-shot lead, Scott thought about playing it safe on the 18th. Williams told him to take 6-iron at the flag, and Scott obliged with a shot that rolled past the cup and settled 5 feet away. When they got to the green, one fan shouted out, “How do you like him now, Tiger?’’

By then, Woods was long gone.

After missing three months with a leg injury, he finished a tournament for the first time since the Masters on April 10 and closed with a 70 to tie for 37th, 18 shots behind.

“I had it in spurts this week,’’ Woods said.

PGA - Scott Piercy squandered a three-stroke lead, dodged more trouble down the stretch, then made a 7-foot par putt on the final hole to win the Reno-Tahoe Open by one stroke in Reno.

Piercy shot a 2-under 70 to finish at 15-under 273, beating Pat Perez (68) by one stroke.

A day after setting the course record with a 61, Piercy had to scramble his way around Montreux Golf & Country Club to claim the $540,000 winner’s check.

Champions - Jay Haas birdied the final hole for a 2-under 68 to capture the 3M Championship in Blaine, Minn., by one shot over Tom Lehman (68), Kenny Perry (66), and Peter Senior (70).

Haas, who earned his first tour victory in two years, finished at 15-under 201, the highest winning score at the tournament since 2006.

Nationwide - J.J. Killeen shot a 3-under 69 to win for the second straight week, two-putting from 90 feet on the final hole to avoid a five-way playoff at the Cox Classic in Omaha.

Ex-Jet Shaun Ellis crosses over to Patriots

The trades for Albert Haynesworth and Chad Ochocinco were, as it turns out, just the beginning of a busy preseason for the Patriots’ personnel department.

According to reports, the Patriots yesterday signed former Jets veteran defensive end Shaun Ellis to a one-year deal, pending a physical.

The 34-year-old Ellis, who had 36 tackles and 4.5 sacks last season, should bolster the Pats’ pass rush. Last week, the Patriots signed veteran Mark Anderson to also help in that area.

The 6-foot-5, 290-pound Ellis is a two-time Pro Bowl selection and has experience in both the 3-4 and 4-3 defense.

The Patriots had Ellis in for a workout last Thursday. Earlier last week, the Jets offered the unrestricted free agent a one-year contract at the veteran’s minimum.

Ellis, who’ll enter his 12th NFL season, had a huge game against the Patriots in the Jets’ 28-21 playoff win last year, coming up with five tackles and sacking quarterback Tom Brady twice.

Solid returns
Julian Edelman’s role on offense diminished last season — he had just seven receptions for 86 yards — but he blossomed into the Patriots’ top punt returner, leading the AFC with a franchise-record 15.3-yard average.

“He’s just growing into it,” Patriots special teams coach Scott O’Brien said. “Every year he has more confidence because he feels better about playing situations that he gets on the field, and then he feels like he’s in better control like all of the good ones.

“We’re looking for big things from Julian,” O’Brien said, “and giving him the opportunities to do it and again, he has come a long way. We’ve got a lot of work to do, obviously, but I think he’s starting to see the confidence that comes from the maturity and experience of doing it.”

Edelman, a quarterback at Kent State, had little experience in the return game in college. His rookie year with the Patriots, when he had 37 catches for 359 yards, he returned a handful of kickoffs and punts.

In the 2010 regular-season finale against Miami, Edelman set another franchise record with a 94-yard punt return for a touchdown. Three weeks earlier, in Chicago, Edelman had a 71-yard return to the end zone negated by a holding penalty.

While Edelman finished the year strong, Brandon Tate, the team’s leading kickoff returner, started it that way but fizzled to the finish.

Tate, who missed just about all of 2009, his rookie season, with a knee injury, was electrifying over the first few games of 2010. In the opener against the Bengals, Tate returned a squib kick 97 yards for a TD. Three weeks later in Miami, Tate returned the second-half kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown.

In the Patriots’ first four games, Tate averaged 33.4 yards on 18 returns. In the last 12, he dipped to 19.8 yards on 23 returns.

“When you have success early, it becomes harder,” O’Brien said. “It doesn’t become easier because now everybody is looking for you. In Brandon’s case last year, he was really like a rookie. He really never had that chance.

“He came a long way, but you never know enough about being a returner and a specialist relative to the experience that you can gain right away. You have to do it enough times to get put in the situations because they’re scheming you now relative to just giving you the deep ball and letting you run like you normally do.”

Tate finished sixth in the league with a 25.8-yard average. As a kickoff return unit, the Pats ranked 18th.

“Do we need to do a better job there? Yes, overall, collectively we sure do,” O’Brien said. “I think (Tate) will be better for experiencing it and learning from it, which is part of the evaluation.”

Flying Tiger
Running back Stevan Ridley was a workhorse for LSU last season, carrying the ball 249 times for more than 1,100 yards and 15 touchdowns.

With BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Sammy Morris and Kevin Faulk not eligible to practice until last Thursday, it was a busy beginning to Ridley’s first NFL training camp, too.

“The only way you’re ever going to get onto the field is to take advantage of the opportunities you’re given,” Ridley said. “You have to come out here and make the best out of each and every opportunity, and that’s all I’m trying to do.”

The Patriots selected Ridley in the third round of the draft. New England took former Cal running back Shane Vereen in the second round. Vereen has missed the last few practices.

Fellow LSU product Faulk, who is on the physically unable to perform list, has spoken highly of Ridley, calling him a “smart player” and a “quick learner.” Sounds like Bill Belichick’s kind of guy.

“Whoever comes in here and works the hardest is who gets the reps in the game,” Ridley said, “so it’s all about hard work and dedication. And you’ll learn that around this team. That’s what I’ve picked up on pretty quick. We have a lot of team guys around here. I’m just following in their direction.

“I’ve been a team player, and I’m going to continue to be a team player. Any time you play together, you get a lot more accomplished than trying to do something by yourself.”

Ridley started camp with uniform No. 37, but when Thomas Clayton was cut, he switched to No. 22, his high school uniform number and ode to Hall of Fame running back Emmitt Smith.

“I still have a lot to do, a lot to do,” Ridley said. “And I’m not satisfied. This team’s not satisfied, and Coach Belichick is not satisfied. I haven’t played a down of NFL football. I’m just going to come out here, and I’m going to work hard every day.”

Day of rest
New league rules require that players are given one day off every seven days of training camp. That day off was yesterday for the Patriots.

They return to the practice field from 1:30-4 p.m. today.

The Pats play their first preseason game Thursday night against the Jaguars at Gillette Stadium.     

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness

Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know.
But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want.
We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain...

#5.Think You Got a Good Night's Sleep (After Only Two Hours of Actual Sleep)

So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully.

"SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... I mean... BRAAAIIIIINNNSSS..."

What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur? No more sneaking naps at the fry station for you!

Holy Shit! How Do I Do It?
It's called the Uberman Sleep Schedule, and besides having a totally badass name, it's a way to get the maximum amount of essential sleep for your body without wasting hours of precious time you could be using to work or drink or farm for World of Warcraft gold. The schedule consists of taking six, 20-30 minute power naps, every four hours during the day. Of course, this new sleep pattern blows donkey-dick to get used to, but it's a price you have to pay to basically extend your waking life by several years.

We're pretty sure Kramer did this once on Seinfeld. So it's probably a great idea.

The best way to start it off is to just jump right in. Get to sleep at 8pm, set your alarm for 8:30. Get up, play some Call of Duty, sleep again at 12, alarm at 12:30, and so on. After three or four days of this you will start to get high as fuck because of sleep deprivation, and might just want to kill yourself, but don't do it! That would be absolutely counter-productive.
By day 10 or so, your brain will say, "Fuck! FINE, we'll do it your way," and will adapt to your new superhuman sleep schedule.

How Does It Work?
When you sleep normally, your body gets only about an hour and a half of REM sleep, the kind of sleep that is thought to be the most important to keeping your brain sharp. While other stages of sleep help your body to heal and grow, the REM sleep is what makes you feel rested.

Of course, sleeping in a bed doesn't hurt either.

The first few days of adjusting are tough because your body isn't getting ANY of this REM sleep, and your brain hates you for it. After the third day, or so, your brain figures out that you mean business, and every time you lay down for one of these naps, dives directly into REM sleep in an attempt to compensate for the deprivation. Do some quick math and that's two full hours of REM sleep, while those who are sleeping normally are only getting an hour and a half.
Before you know it, while the rest of the world snores away, you'll be up and drawing dicks on their faces.

#4.Hallucinate Like You Just Took LSD, Legally

Yes, that's right kids! Tell your dealer goodbye and worry no more about winding up naked on the roof of an office building after a bad trip. Now you can be stoned out of your mind by building a homemade deprivation chamber out of some regular, completely harmless household objects.

Holy Shit, How Can I Do It!
You are going to need three things: a ping-pong ball, a radio with headphones and a red light.
Step 1: Turn the radio to a station with just white noise (static), and put on your headphones.
Step 2: Cut the ping-pong ball in half and tape each half over your eyes.
Step 3: Turn the red light so it's facing your eyes.
Step 4: Sit there for at least a half an hour.
Step 5: Follow Ben Franklin and your new friend, Harold the unicorn, into the gumdrop forest, and live happily ever after.

How Does It Work?
It's called the Ganzfeld effect, and it works by blocking out most of the signals that go to your brain. It's the same kind of effect you get when looking into a soft light for a while and lose vision, except at a larger scale.
The sound of the white noise and the light from the outside of the ping pong ball are eventually ignored by your brain. With all those signals out of the picture, your brain has to create its own, and this is where the hallucinations come in. We can't guarantee they won't involve, say, the ghost of Lizzie Borden trying to hack off your scrotum with an ax, but that's the risk you take, dammit.

Now, if you want a little more control over your hallucinations...

#3.Dream Whatever You Want to Dream

What if we told you there was a way to make all your fantasies come true? You could have that sports car you've always wanted and the daily threesome with Sarah Palin and Cannonball Run-era Burt Reynolds. Hell, we'll even throw in a few superpowers for your enjoyment.

We never miss an opportunity to use this picture.

Welcome to the wonderful world of lucid dreaming.

Holy Shit, How Can I Do It?
Most of you reading this have had a lucid dream before. Every once in a while you wind up in a dream but somehow recognize it as a dream, and you may have found yourself able to pretty much program the dream to your specifications. While there are plenty of tips and tricks to make this happen on purpose, we've narrowed it down to what seems like the most useful, so that you can be riding dinosaurs with Gary Coleman in your sleep in no time:

Cowboy hat, optional.

1. Keep a Dream Journal
As soon as you wake up from a dream, write down every little thing you can remember about it. Supposedly by writing it down, your brain recognizes certain patterns that only occur in a dream (since most dreams are immediately forgotten) and if they are on paper, you can recall them easily.
2. Think about exactly what you want to dream right before you fall asleep. Makes sense. For instance you've probably fallen asleep watching MythBusters before and immediately dreamed you were flying through the air, using a giant version of Jamie's mustache as a hang glider.

Just us?

3. The best time to have a lucid dream is either right before you regularly wake up, or right after. Studies have shown that more people have lucid dreams when they take a nap shortly after they first wake up in the morning.
So you can do all that, or if you are the lazy type, get yourself something like the NovaDreamer, a device that detects when you've entered REM sleep and then makes a noise that's supposed to be not quite enough to wake you up, but enough to raise your awareness to, "Hey, this is totally a dream I'm having!" levels.

How Does It Work?
Obviously the big difference between a dream and real life is that if the Hamburglar came bursting out of your refrigerator right now and started screaming at you in Vietnamese, your first thought would be "This is a strange and unusual event that is occurring right now, and I should question my perceptions." If the same thing happens in a dream, you just go with it.

Yes, Mel Gibson is dressed like Col. Sanders. No, this is not a dream.

In a dream state, your mind mostly loses the ability to criticize anything that's happening because dreaming just doesn't involve the critical part of your brain. You're all worried that you're at work in your underwear, and don't even blink at the fact that your boss is a dragon who speaks in the voice of your old middle school gym coach.
But if you change your mental state ever so slightly, that critical part of your brain can keep functioning even while in dreamland. If you can perfect the technique of dreaming while not all the way asleep, the next thing you know you're ordering up a Smurf orgy.

#2.Learn More While You Sleep

So say you haven't followed that first step up there and choose to continue sleeping like other mere mortals. A very minor change in your schedule can still let you use your sleep patterns to your advantage, by making you smarter.

Holy Shit, How Can I Do It?
No, we're not talking about those scams where they have you put a tape recorder under your pillow and let it teach you Spanish while you're asleep. What scientists have found out is if you need to remember a bunch of information (say, for a big exam), do NOT study right up until time for the exam. Study at least 24 hours before, and sleep on it.

Note: "Sleep on it" is simply an expression. You can sleep in a bed.

They did a study at Harvard that proved this technique works. Participants were separated into three different groups after being shown images that they were told to memorize. One of the groups was tested on the memorization after 20 minutes, the other after 12 hours and the last after 24 hours. You would expect that the ones who were tested just 20 minutes later would do best, but that would, of course, make a really shitty story.
No, the participants who slept on it and had 24 hours for the information to fester in their brain did the best on the test, while those who only had 20 minutes did the worst.

Wasting your time, nerds, go to sleep.

How Does It Work?
Scientists say the ability your brain has to retain information works in three different ways: acquisition, consolidation and recall. While the first and last occur while you're awake, it's the middle-man that is important during sleep.
When you sleep, your brain is constantly processing information that you couldn't have processed with everything going on up there during the day. This works to strengthen your neurological bonds in the brain. Think of it like downloading something on a computer. When you go to download something while your porn is up, it takes longer, right? Close up any applications that are running and you have a smoother, quicker download. Yeah, kind of like that... maybe.
So does this technique work with the "sleep two hours a day" system we mentioned earlier? We're not sure anyone has tried it, but by our calculations such a person would immediately gain mental superpowers, possibly including telekinesis. Somebody in the comments try it and let us know.

#1.Believe Something Happened (That Totally Didn't)

Stop for a moment and recall your fondest childhood memory. Or your worst. In either case, there's a really good chance that it's total bullshit.
Memory is a funny thing. Research has consistently found that our memories from when we were kids are either extremely inaccurate, or didn't happen at all. They are just elaborate constructions of a memory storage system that isn't very good at distinguishing real memories from fake ones.

Are you positive this didn't happen?

So what if we told you that there was a way to do this on purpose? To hack your brain into believing (and "seeing" vividly) a completely made-up event that never actually happened?
Holy Shit! How Do I Do It?
The trick is you need somebody else to do it for you (or to you). But it takes very little effort, and no Total Recall-style brain-hacking machines.

Or torso mutants.

For instance, in a study in 1995 researchers sat down a group of people and mentioned four incidents from their childhood (gathered from family members) and asked subjects how well they remembered them. What they didn't mention was that one of the stories (a tale of them being lost in a specific shopping mall) was utter bullshit.
It didn't matter. Twenty percent came back with sudden memories of the event that, in reality, never happened. The sheer act of asking them if it did, caused them to manufacture the memory, filling in details on the fly.

Remember when Bruce Campbell was President?

Researchers knew they could up that 20 percent figure. In another test, an unsuspecting group of people who had visited Disneyland in the past were placed in a room with a cardboard cutout of Bugs Bunny and/or were shown fake ads for Disneyland featuring Bugs. Afterwards, 40 percent claimed they vividly remembered seeing a guy in a Bugs Bunny costume when they were at Disneyland. They didn't, of course (Bugs isn't a Disney character).
Another study took it a step further, and actually Photoshopped a picture of each subject riding in a hot air balloon. When asked if they recalled this non-event, 50 percent said they did. Other experiments successfully convinced people they had at one time nearly drowned, been hospitalized or been attacked by a wild animal.


How Does It Work?
Your brain kind of plays it fast and loose when it stores memories, and for good reason: Usually the details don't matter. You remember your best friend's phone number but don't remember exactly where and when he told you. You remember that you hate zucchini, but don't remember what day of the week you tried it. Your brain breaks up memories into a stew of general lessons learned and important stuff you'll need later.
The problem is that same process makes it very difficult to distinguish real memories from fake ones since the source of a memory is so often discarded in the stew. A fact you think you read in a newspaper might in reality have been read in a fictional novel, or heard from a friend, or dreamed, or implanted by somebody who's fucking with you.
So not only could somebody do this for you (though it would have to be set up so that you don't know where and when) but it seems like you could run a pretty successful business just implanting happy childhoods for people.
You know, like that time you found out you were adopted, and that your real parents were the Thundercats.

Top 100 Fantasy Football Payers

According to the Yahoo! fantasy experts, Chad Ochocinco(notes) was the biggest winner since the NFL opened up free agency. Once a lock for 90 catches and 1,200 yards, things had started to dry up in Cincinnati in recent years, and last season he recorded fewer than 1,000 yards and five touchdowns for the second time in the past three years.

With the Bengals looking to get younger, it asked for no more than two late-round draft picks from the Patriots as the price for assuming control of The Ocho Show. And, while the Pats had to only pay modestly for his services, a teaming with Tom Brady and a Patriots passing game that runs the kind of precise short- and intermediate-range passing game that suits Ochocinco like a glove has returned a premium to his fantasy value. Just a few weeks back, Ochocinco was out of the top 100 fantasy discussion. But a marriage with Bill Belichick and company has landed him inside the top 60.
Note: The following list comprises the overall top 100 player rankings for 2011 of each Yahoo! Sports fantasy expert. The list is ordered by the overall top 100 composite ranking of the four experts, with the remaining players that received votes rounding out the bottom of the list.

2011 Overall Top 100 Rankings
	Brandon Funston	Andy Behrens	Brad Evans	Scott Pianowski	Composite Ranking
Arian Foster(notes)	1	2	1	2	1
Adrian Peterson	2	1	3	1	2
Jamaal Charles(notes)	5	4	2	3	3
Ray Rice(notes)	3	3	4	4	3
Chris Johnson	4	5	5	5	5
Michael Turner(notes)	7	8	9	7	6
Andre Johnson(notes)	11	7	10	6	7
Rashard Mendenhall(notes)	8	13	8	9	8
Aaron Rodgers(notes)	9	9	11	10	9
Darren McFadden(notes)	13	12	6	11	10
LeSean McCoy(notes)	6	20	12	8	11
Larry Fitzgerald(notes)	15	6	13	14	12
Calvin Johnson(notes)	14	10	15	13	13
Michael Vick(notes)	10	16	7	20	14
Roddy White(notes)	16	14	14	12	15
Drew Brees(notes)	18	11	17	16	16
Hakeem Nicks(notes)	19	17	19	18	17
Philip Rivers(notes)	22	18	20	19	18
Shonn Greene(notes)	23	24	16	17	19
Frank Gore(notes)	20	21	18	22	20
Maurice Jones-Drew(notes)	12	22	25	26	21
Peyton Manning(notes)	17	19	26	30	22
Matt Forte(notes)	21	28	31	15	23
Tom Brady	31	15	23	29	24
Reggie Wayne(notes)	27	26	28	28	25
Miles Austin(notes)	38	23	27	21	25
Ahmad Bradshaw(notes)	26	34	30	24	27
Vincent Jackson(notes)	35	30	22	27	27
Steven Jackson	24	29	37	31	29
Tony Romo(notes)	30	25	29	37	29
Mike Wallace(notes)	36	27	35	25	31
Peyton Hillis(notes)	25	51	21	32	32
LeGarrette Blount(notes)	28	42	24	36	33
Greg Jennings(notes)	32	35	51	23	34
Mike Williams	39	37	32	33	34
DeSean Jackson(notes)	33	31	48	35	36
Antonio Gates(notes)	43	32	41	43	37
DeAngelo Williams(notes)	42	45	38	34	38
Jermichael Finley(notes)	47	33	36	49	39
Dez Bryant(notes)	41	40	39	46	40
Daniel Thomas(notes)	58	38	34	41	41
Jeremy Maclin(notes)	51	36	53	40	42
Ben Roethlisberger(notes)	46	52	43	42	43
Brandon Lloyd(notes)	52	61	33	38	44
Ryan Mathews(notes)	29	48	66	45	45
Dwayne Bowe(notes)	37	58	50	44	46
Knowshon Moreno(notes)	54	59	42	39	47
Matt Ryan(notes)	40	50	40	72	48
Stevie Johnson(notes)	53	55	44	51	49
Marques Colston(notes)	50	39	59	57	50
Brandon Marshall(notes)	34	65	58	52	51
Dallas Clark(notes)	60	47	46	56	51
Wes Welker(notes)	63	44	54	52	53
Vernon Davis(notes)	61	46	47	61	54
Marshawn Lynch(notes)	44	76	52	54	55
Mark Ingram(notes)	49	41	76	63	56
Chad Ochocinco	75	54	45	65	57
Santonio Holmes(notes)	55	60	78	48	58
Matt Schaub(notes)	45	49	89	60	59
Jason Witten(notes)	69	43	64	69	60
Anquan Boldin(notes)	62	63	55	66	61
Fred Jackson(notes)	48	91	63	47	62
Ryan Grant(notes)	71	57	62	67	63
Eli Manning(notes)	74	67	60	58	64
Austin Collie(notes)	80	53	73	55	65
Mario Manningham(notes)	68	72	61	62	66
Cedric Benson(notes)	57	75	68	64	67
Mikel LeShoure(notes)	66	83	49	78	68
Kenny Britt(notes)	65	81	67	70	69
Joseph Addai(notes)	70	64	75	74	69
BenJarvus Green-Ellis(notes)	88	90	56	50	71
Owen Daniels(notes)	79	71	57	81	72
Felix Jones(notes)	64	74	80	71	73
Jonathan Stewart(notes)	59	86	88	59	74
Percy Harvin(notes)	73	70	81	68	74
Sidney Rice(notes)	72	69	85	73	76
Santana Moss(notes)	81	82	65	76	77
Jimmy Graham(notes)	85	79	70	75	78
Jahvid Best(notes)	67	84	79	83	79
Ryan Williams(notes)	56	92	77	90	80
Matthew Stafford(notes)	76	62	82	95	80
Mike Tolbert(notes)	83	87	69	86	82
Josh Freeman(notes)	77	85	74	91	83
Kevin Kolb(notes)	–	56	71	85	83
Jay Cutler(notes)	82	68	99	79	85
Beanie Wells(notes)	97	66	86	82	86
Steve Smith (Car)	78	89	98	88	87
Mike Sims-Walker(notes)	–	78	83	77	87
Pierre Garcon(notes)	84	–	91	80	89
Michael Bush(notes)	91	99	90	92	90
Julio Jones(notes)	100	95	72	–	91
A.J. Green(notes)	92	–	84	94	92
Jordy Nelson(notes)	–	94	92	87	93
Johnny Knox(notes)	94	88	97	–	94
Joe Flacco(notes)	90	77	–	–	95
Rashad Jennings(notes)	93	–	95	96	96
Sam Bradford(notes)	–	73	100	–	97
Kyle Orton(notes)	–	80	93	–	97
Kellen Winslow(notes)	–	97	–	84	99
Mike Thomas(notes)	87	–	–	97	100
Tony Gonzalez(notes)	–	96	–	93	–
Reggie Bush(notes)	99	–	94	–	–
Michael Crabtree(notes)	86	–	–	–	–
Ryan Torain(notes)	–	–	87	–	–
Jerome Simpson(notes)	–	–	–	89	–
Roy Williams	89	–	–	–	–
Chris Cooley(notes)	–	93	–	–	–
Braylon Edwards(notes)	95	–	–	–	–
Mike Williams	96	–	–	–	–
Delone Carter(notes)	–	–	96	–	–
Brandon Jacobs(notes)	–	98	–	–	–
Rob Gronkowski(notes)	–	–	–	98	–
Matt Cassel(notes)	98	–	–	–	–
James Starks(notes)	–	–	–	99	–
Zach Miller	–	–	–	100	–
Darren Sproles(notes)	–	100	–	–	–

Scoring system: Pass TD = 4; 25 Pass Yards = 1; Rush/Receive TD = 6; 10 Rush/Receive Yards = 1