Archive of March 2009
23 March
While we're at it. I'd like to also document my suggestion of a children's store called "Start'em Young" it would sell people expensive brand name crap for their kids that the kids will then grow up to expect: cell phones, designer brands and vuitton luggage. . .
Who says consumerism is dead? Have you hung out with any 7 year olds lately?
2009/03/23 - 02:42 PM
InfoP0rn
"We culled the stats for every (Playboy) centerfold from December 1953 (Marilyn Monroe) to January 2009 (Dasha Astafieva), then calculated each woman’s body-mass index. A clear trend emerged: While real American women have steadily eaten their way up the BMI slope — just like American men — Playmates have gone from a sylphlike 19.4 to an anime-ideal 17.6." via wired 2009/03/23 - 02:12 PM
22 March
french yellow and greek blue, there I am waiting for you.
photo by rougerouge
"An afterimage or ghost image is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one’s vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased. One of the most common afterimages is the bright glow that seems to float before one’s eyes after staring at a light bulb or a headlight for a few seconds. The phenomenon of afterimages may be closely related to persistence of vision, which allows a rapid series of pictures to portray motion, which is the basis of animation and cinema. If the viewer stares at this image for 20-60 seconds and stares at a white object a negative afterimage will appear. This can also be achieved by the viewer closing his/her eyes and tilting their head up. Afterimages come in two forms, negative (inverted) and positive (retaining original color). The process behind positive afterimages is unknown, though thought to be related to neural adaptation. On the other hand, negative afterimages are a retinal phenomenon and are well understood." 2009/03/22 - 02:35 PM
one of these things is not like the other. . .
Buridan’s ass (or Buridan’s donkey) is a figurative description of a man of indecision. It refers to a paradoxical situation wherein a donkey, placed exactly in the middle between two stacks of hay of equal size and quality, will starve to death since it cannot make any rational decision to start eating one rather than the other. The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan.The paradox was not originated by Buridan himself. It is first found in Aristotle’s De Caelo, where Aristotle mentions an example of a man who remains unmoved because he is as hungry as he is thirsty and is positioned exactly between food and drink.
more from wikipedia 2009/03/22 - 08:23 AM
20 March
Make it like a memory, take away the sound and the sight
Familiarity leads to liking; familiarity breeds contempt. The first proposition is supported by decades of research in psychology, whereas the second is supported by everyday experience: the disintegration of friendships, the demise of business relationships, and the prevalence of divorce. It is certainly the case that the more that is known about others, the more they are liked, on average. On countless occasions, individuals decide someone is not preferred after only minimal interaction, curtailing the acquisition of further information through subsequent interaction; if someone is preferred, on the other hand, this liking leads to acquisition of more information over repeated interactions. This selection process creates a positive correlation between knowledge and liking across the set of one’s acquaintances, but it may also lead individuals to believe that more knowledge causes greater liking within any given acquaintanceship. We propose that the relationship between knowledge and liking within individuals is in fact negative: that more information about any one person leads, on average, to less liking for that person. We further suggest that this relationship is due to the lure of ambiguity. At first acquaintance, individuals read into others what they wish and find evidence of similarity, leading to liking. Over time, however, as evidence of dissimilarity is uncovered, liking decreases. In short, the present investigation shows that “less is more” in interpersonal affinity.
{ Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School; Jeana H. Frost, Medical Information Systems Unit, Boston University; Dan Ariely, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Less Is More: The Lure of Ambiguity, or Why Familiarity Breeds Contempt 2009/03/20 - 05:23 PM
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