Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-13-2008

[andrewducker]

• Anti Spore
  The best rick-rolling _ever_. Start from the bottom, read a few entries, and then come up to the most recent entry and read it, including the second-to-last paragraph. Fantastic work.
  (tags: religion funny gaming)
• Stripes or hoops? Fashion myth uncovered
  He carried out a study on about 20 people, who were asked to assess the relative size of different dresses in either horizontal or vertical stripes. The supremacy of horizontal stripes in the "big bum" debate was clear-cut, he said. "Horizontal stripes don't make you look fat. It's a subtle effect, but in fact people wearing vertical stripes look wider than the ones who are wearing horizontal stripes," Dr Thompson said.
  (tags: fashion optical_illusion)
• Researchers find racial bias in virtual worlds
  (tags: research racism internet games psychology)

Comments

[matgb]

Heh, guess what?

You've broken my friends page again. Something weird in the glue code or is it delicious being their normal selves?

[andrewducker]

That fix it?

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Andy you have made my year with the anti-spore post!!! I am still guffawing at it and keep returning just to read it all over again from the bottom!!!

[diotina.livejournal.com]

...and to think Ailsa and I stopped ourselves from buying these cute horizontal striped sweaters today! Damn.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I've known for YEARS that stripey things make you look thinner not fatter.(see my wardrobe passim.) Nice to have it confirmed :-)

[andrewducker]

Why didn't you share?!?!?

You could have saved those scientists a (small) fortune!

:->

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

On the subject of racial bias in virtual worlds its worth noting that the Internet itself is hugely racially biased.

That and its always amusing when people on the internet misunderstand basic premises of research.

There are reasons the research is flawed - its just that none of them relate to anything you are saying...

[andrewducker]

Anything _I_ am saying?

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

Opps.

Been awake since stupid o clock, stupid o clock yesterday.

I mean them.

The shadowy forces that criticise social psychology but do it wrong...