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08 January 2009

A friend of my sister's just saw the face of the Prophet (Muhammad) and Allah on the side of the moon last night (posted on Mefi about Muharram). And she happens to be non-muslim... so, what have you seen on the moon at night lately, or anywhere else for that matter?

post by: hadjiboy at: 08:23 | 20 comments

Bunny! OMG!

posted by misteraitch 08 January | 08:27

I always see Jackie Gleason.

posted by DarkForest 08 January | 08:32

You're right, that is pretty cool (what is god [if he exists, close to the bunny] I mean: we rule!). And yeah, Jackie Gleason--oh, my, fucking, god!

posted by hadjiboy 08 January | 08:38

This is what I was looking for: The Honeymooners

posted by DarkForest 08 January | 09:01

The moon is a Dutch cartoonist?

posted by cortex 08 January | 10:52

so, what have you seen on the moon at night lately, or anywhere else for that matter?

I'm sure that I saw the words "confirmation bias" spelled out in Comic Sans on the moon last night.

posted by grouse 08 January | 11:36

Everything looks exactly like me and reminds me of me and tings I have and people I know and stuff I like, including the moon.

posted by Miko 08 January | 11:53

--signed, the human race

posted by Miko 08 January | 11:54

goatse

posted by pieisexactlythree 08 January | 12:57

cue terrorists crashing hijacked space shuttle on the moon's infidel surface

posted by matteo 08 January | 13:53

I saw Lipstick Thespian the other night but he looked a bit dyspeptic.

posted by arse_hat 08 January | 13:55

goatse?
SFW, don't worry

posted by DarkForest 08 January | 13:56

Humans, to be reductionist, are basically just face detectors. It's no wonder we see faces in everything.

posted by birdie 08 January | 14:19

Humans, to be reductionist, are basically just face detectors. It's no wonder we see faces in everything.

I have a neuroscientist friend who would agree with you. His research was on how babies recognize faces. Turns out that if you put a crudely drawn smiley face in front of an infant (that being something with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth), their brains recognize it in the same way they recognize a real face. But if you mess with the drawing -- give it one eye, put the mouth on the forehead, and the nose on the side of the face (or something like that) -- it doesn't register the same way in the brain.

So yeah, from our very earliest stages out of the womb, our brains recognize faces in everything that looks remotely face-like.

posted by mudpuppie 08 January | 14:29

Oh yeah, my n=1 baby lights up when she turns over her one rattle with a smiley face on it.

So my anecdote matches up with mudpuppie's friend's scientific study, making it even more useful. Heh.

posted by gaspode 08 January | 14:36

The moon is a Dutch cartoonist?

No, no, cortex, that's a mondegreen.

posted by stilicho 08 January | 16:00

cheese

posted by qvantamon 08 January | 16:52

This is what I saw in the moon last night.

posted by jason's_planet 08 January | 17:01

Oh no no no no!

For some reason I find that Quizno's spongmonkey thing profoundly disturbing. I'm not sure why - but something about the messed-up face and weird eyes is really scarily haunting to me. When the commercial used to come on TV I would have to leave the room or switch channels.

Yeeeek!

posted by Miko 08 January | 17:43

Miko, look out next time you go shopping for Ocelots!

posted by pieisexactlythree 08 January | 18:30

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