Hiding objects in everyday objects
Testosterone and Competitive Play
“It is easy to be fooled. The mechanics of the game like Unreal Tournament when played with strangers or friends are apparently identical; you shoot and you move. Yet the experience ends up being radically different.”
Readability
Readability™ is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
U.S. reactions to the game winning goal against Algeria. Quite uplifting. :)
Client: I know you creative guys sometimes need “inspiration.” I really want my project to go well so I will get you the kind of inspiration you need, OK? Free of charge.
[It was revealed later in the meeting that he was suggesting that he would supply our designers with marijuana.]
European Racism
“A story I heard last night: Once upon a time, there was a man who thought he was dead. He would walk only at night, and he frequented graveyards and empty houses, because that’s what dead people do. His friends tried everything they could think of to convince him that he was still alive. They talked to him, they fed him, they threw cold water on him. But he was firmly convinced that he was dead, and nothing they did could shake the conviction.
Finally they brought him in to a psychologist. The psychologist talked and analyzed, trying to delve to the root of the problem, but just couldn’t get anywhere. Finally he asked the man whether dead men bleed. The delusional person answered that of course they don’t, don’t be silly! The psychologist got up and walked over to his desk, and came back with a pin. He asked his patient to sit still, so that he could show him that he really wasn’t dead. Then the doctor took the pin and pricked the man’s hand, and sure enough a drop of blood came out. The man jumped, stared, and then, with a shake of the head said, ‘Well, wady’a know! Dead men DO bleed!’
Moral: sometimes facts aren’t enough to change presuppositions.”
— elel
Apple passes Microsoft as #1 in tech
“This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and its co-founder and visionary chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.”
