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Name: The Rt Hon KJP
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[ education, have you no shame? ]
Oh dear. Stupid signs, mindless grins and a bloody xylophone. And a rubber chicken.
Lord please don't ever let me attend THAT training session...
[ home on the derange ]
I have my own ideas on where i would live. I wouldn't live here but I'd like to live where I could see it.
[ a classic illusion ]
I used to love the Ames Room at a institution i used to attend. It was just so weird to physically feel a device that so convincingly deceived my senses. Here is a great video showing an Ames Room in action. Though in these days of computer imaging it is perhaps less breathtaking as it could just be manipulated video. But it isnt: the weird effect of seeing sizes change before your eyes is worth experiencing.
[ the 10 worst paintings hanging in British galleries ]
The "best 10 paintings" idea is too boring. Go for the worst 10
[ east and west look different ]
apparently Asian people process visual information differently to mainstream US residents. Is this learned or innnate? is it related to writing conventions?
[ best songs ]
100 best songs since 1963, and you can download them all. Oh, no you can't any more....
Hmm there are a few number observations that could be made.
confusion. just unmitigated confusion.
[ why we don't see beyond what occupies us ]
"A team of scientists at UCL (University College London) has discovered why we often miss major changes in our surroundings - such as a traffic light turning green when we’re listening to the radio. Our inability to notice large changes in a visual scene is a phenomenon often exploited by magicians - but only now can scientists put their finger on the exact part of the brain that is so often deceived. "
Come on, we've all done it: been so absorbed in some activity that we haven't noticed the things around us. Such as the crowd gathering ... so the next time we lock the door in the share house..
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/archive/archive-release/?changeblindness
[ Timothy McSweeney, you are evil and so is the horse you rode into town on }
How true this is And so is this, or at least the bits I could work out. And as for this , i have little or no idea. But this is clever.
And I dare not even mention THIS to a certain person, cos i know the consequences...
[ oh you pretty things ]
A trace thing. Ground Control to Major Tom, your circuit's dead there's something wrong...
[ now playing ]
On cyclic rotation. Paul Simon "Only Living Boy in New York" and "Bernadette", Crowded House "Private Universe" , and things that shall remain nameless.
[ weather report ]
for some reason the weather and the bit of nature above head height have become interesting. Dark and starless right now, cold and still. Not much of a night for sitting abou outside, even with the right clothing. Yet being inside means feeling closed in.
[ more crochet stuff ]
feelings that equate to promise, knowing that the unpromisable still needs to be conveyed.. tonight, a deep backlit indigo sky with stars that have depth. and after a gesture that said more than pages of writing.
[ every meeting is better if you take these ]
[ Camilla Queen ]
Cartoon accompanied by the obvious Queen music. NSFW if you work in Buckingham Palace.
Warning: contains kazoos, mild rudeness, and inescapably obvious rhymes.
[ Chinese Spouting Bowl ]
A clever thing that works on resonance. And if I hear the word "resonance" or "resonates" misused again i"ll give the person resonance all right.. Must morons take over every word in the language?
[ can you be hypnotised? ]
A test of hypnotisability... I would love to be hypnotised, but not alone.
[ sleep ]
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast
- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
[ literary hoaxes ]
Quote:
As Ruthven wrote in his 2001 study ''Faking Literature," ''Literary forgery is a sort of spurious literature, and so is literature. Consequently, when we imagine the relationship between literature and literary forgeries, we should not be thinking of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but rather of Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
An author talks about fake literature, if there is such a thing
