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Night Noises by Fayyaad Hendricks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. I apologize for the overimagification, but that’s the result of two days of challenge. It’s actually left me a little on the drained side, but…it was actually fun. It’s weird how much I can accomplish when I’m not [...]

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I read this article about video game addiction at GameSpot with great interest, seeing as how the article discussed two interests of mine: psychology, which I studied at university, and video games, my favorite down-time pursuit, and an industry that I’d love to work in. The article is long (runs into four pages) and unless [...]

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Harvard Business Review has an interesting article about how people tend to value creations that they’ve labored over more than those that they haven’t. When people construct products themselves, from bookshelves to Build-a-Bears, they come to overvalue their (often poorly made) creations. We call this phenomenon the IKEA effect, in honor of the wildly successful [...]

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A friend and I decided to try a little social experiment. How many people, when driving by, look upwards? We didn’t exactly keep records (which would have made it a little more scientific), but here was the setup. We stood on a balcony above a reasonably busy road for roughly five minutes (this was roughly [...]

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Backmasking involves playing a song backwards to hear hidden messages. Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven is a great example of this phenomenon.
I decided to mix some songs in my collection to see how they sound. The results were unreal.

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According to the Typealizer analysis, Utter Insanity authors are classified as ENTP – Visionaries: The charming and trend savvy type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and anticipate trends. They often have sophisticated language skills and come across as witty and social. At the end of theday, however, they are pragmatic decision makers [...]

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Boston Globe has a fun-looking article about how to hallucinate without the benefit of drugs. One of methods suggested is to tune a radio to static and then tape two halves of a ping pong ball to your eyes, thus depriving your body of sensation. Within minutes you should see…well…someone try it and tell us! [...]

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Infovore has a very interesting article about the future of the world as run by gamers. This is no mere conjecture: a generation of people who have grown up with games as part of their everyday lives is now coming into power. The question then becomes “what skills would someone who has been a gamer [...]

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Found this fun little game that tests how good your short-term memory is. You’re show a list of items, and then when you think you have them memorized, you click next and pick them from the items shown. It starts off easy and then they add more items. One wrong move and you’re out! My [...]

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Try out this quick test at News.com.au to see if you’re left or right brained. Turns out I’m about as right-brained as they get (which by looking at the list they provide, I could have told you), but I’m still not certain how this works. The entire test consists of looking at an animation of [...]

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