Interesting Links for 25-12-2018

[andrewducker]

Robotic tiles for VR movement

(tags: VirtualReality robots viaSwampers )

Have You Played… Windows Solitaire?

(tags: games history windows )

You are only conscious when your unconscious mind is wrong.

(tags: consciousness unconscious psychology )

British pet shops to be banned from selling puppies and kittens

(tags: UK dogs cats )

DOOMBA turns Roomba wanderings into Doom maps

(tags: technology doom hoover )

New UK homes crumbling due to weak mortar

(tags: UK housing construction OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[calimac]

Yes, I've played Windows Solitaire. It's still just about the only computer game I play, except for Minesweeper and Tetris - once I re-found the legacy version of Solitaire, which does not turn the cards over for you. (If the computer is playing the game for you, what's the point?) I prefer the computer version to solitaire with a deck of physical cards, because I don't have to shuffle the cards, which I'm physically incapable of.

Oh, Freud visited America? I did not know that.

"Defra"? When did these wacky acronyms take over British government? The ones I find particularly creepy are the ones for "Office of ..." like "Ofcom", which sound like Handmaid's Tale characters.

[armiphlage]

"New UK homes crumbling due to weak mortar" - just a coincidence that they left out the most expensive ingredient, and put in more of the cheapest ingredient (after water).

Consciousness

[birguslatro]

"You are only conscious when your unconscious mind is wrong."

Which explains why we can't tickle ourselves!

This is an explanation of the unconscious that makes sense to me. Others haven't, or just seem very vague. Consciousness is still a mystery (to me) though...