November 2008
10 posts
How Magicians "Trick" the Mind →
But the most versatile instrument in their bag of tricks may be the ability to create cognitive illusions. Like visual illusions, cognitive illusions mask the perception of physical reality. Yet unlike visual illusions, cognitive illusions are not sensory in nature. Rather they involve high-level functions such as attention, memory and causal inference. With all those tools at their disposal,...
Tumblrette →
Tumblrette is a £1.19 iPhone/iPod Touch Tumblr Client app which was released back in September. Up until I found this I was using Tumble which is free, but only has about a third of the features I want (and I kept posting pictures to the wrong blogs); Tumblrette goes the whole shebang and has support for multiple Tumblelogs, advanced options such as the ability to set the date of a post, and live...
Now We Know America Can, Can We?
I’m not ashamed to say, I found President-Elect Obama’s victory speech extremely touching. I recommend you watch it - I confess there was a noticeable moistness about my eyes before it finished.
I am on good terms with the USA in general - I watch American movies and TV shows, listen to American podcasts, use technology and equipment built by American engineers with good old American...
Vote For the All-Day Breakfast Party →
“The only pork-barrel spending I approve of is on actual barrels of pork.”
We should have a Party like this in the UK (nod to @Moeskido)
