An example use of a scraper: let's say a government entity releases daily information regarding finances, and you want to graph or otherwise track this data for personal or business use. Going to the website each day and entering the data manually is certainly one labor-intensive way to do it, but as with any good hacker will tell you – if you have to do anything more than once it is better to automate it.

ScraperWiki is a centralized location for these custom built scrapers. Instead of writing your own from scratch, you can search their database to see if a scraper has already been written for a source.

Scrapers are categories by language – PHP, Python and Ruby – and the site is currently in beta.

The connectome is a map. It's a map of the neurons in your brain and how they interact with each other — which are connected, where, and how strongly. Some neuroscientists believe that it's this map that defines who we are — associating memories with other things in your brain, in the same way that a smell of baking can conjure up an image of your kitchen.

Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom into a region to explore the cells that comprise it, and the functions that depend on it.

The Human Connectome Project aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data, an interface to graphically navigate this data and the opportunity to achieve never before realized conclusions about the living human brain.