Brain Hacking

The latest fad among the not-very-bright crowd is running electricity through your brain. I don't mean cybernetic implants or human-machine direct interface. I mean they're strapping wires to their heads and plugging into the wall. Like this moron:

Anthony Lee had just begun trying to hack his brain when his girlfriend caught him at it. He was sitting in the living room of his Alabama home with electrodes attached to his head, fiddling with the device he’d built to send a current through his gray matter, when she walked in. “It was that awkward moment when your family walks in on you while you’re doing science,” he says with a laugh.

Oh, A-HHAHAHAHAHAAAA! Wow, that's a real knee-slapper, Tony! Hey, how 'bout you try some of this 460V 3-phase? No really; just plug in right here...

In all seriousness, I wish to encourage this new "DIY" trend. We've far too many congenital idiots running around, so if some of them wish to try their hand at creating a "This is my brain on high-voltage" masterpiece, then by all means they should have at it. I'll even provide the wire.

So the next time the lights in your neighborhood dim down for a couple seconds, don't get mad and cuss at the penny-pinching power company. That's a negative thought. Think positive: perhaps a "brain hacker" just got his wings.

(See that? Negative. Positive.)

BZZZZZZT!