andrewducker | Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-13-2008

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)