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Friday, December 16th, 2005

Stereotypes a go-go

Cognitive Daily – The negative impact of positive stereotypes Three groups of asian women were given math tests to perform. Each of the three group got a different focal questionnaire before, the first focused on the contestant’s personality, the second on their race the third on their gender. Sounds like a fairy tale? There’s a […]

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Amanita Design – Samorost (1)

This game is just brilliant in design, storyboard and execution. Very otherworldly level designs and a brilliantly surreal game logic, paired with cuteness – its only fault is that it is too short. Samorost | Samorost 2

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Jigsaw Pieces

4a This ploy is quite popular among marketing fucks, it seems. This is the second one in two weeks I received. Send magazine advertisements that look like an invoice, and some percentage of recipients will be suckered into actually paying and thus subscribing to your quality rag. Why, it’s pure evil genius! Update for this.

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Joseph Jennings – Winning Karate (3)

With martial arts training, it’s mre about the form, the spirit and the attitude of the student than it is about the actual specific movement or skill that’s trained. So a physical description of the basic techniques provides technical rather than spiritual insight – at least when it’s read rather than physically studied. On the […]