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links for 2007-02-17
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New essay by David Sedaris in the New Yorker
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Hear with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect
Here’s a little video podcast I made for Hackszine to demonstrate how a classic illusion known as the McGurk Effect shows how our senses combine to completely change our ultimate experience of perception (full transcript here):
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Testing IMified
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(via Lifehacker)
Note: I tested this post for a Hackszine write-up. (This note is not part of the post made within iChat.)
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links for 2007-02-06
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The best, most detailed online bookbinding tutorial I’ve seen (including, of course, my own).
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My Dog Ate My Masterpiece
From today’s Writer’s Almanac:
It was on this day in 1937 that John Steinbeck published his novel Of
Mice and Men, the story of two migrant farm workers, George Milton
and his simple-minded friend, Lennie Small, who dream of owning their
own place and living off the fat of the land.
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Steinbeck wanted the story of the novel to be simple, like a
children’s story, even though it would have a tragic, violent ending.
He had almost finished his first draft of the novel when his dog tore
the manuscript to shreds. He eventually rewrote the novel and it was
published on this day in 1937. The play was produced soon after, and
both the novel and the play were huge successes.
(Thanks, Dan!)
bekaboo 1:01 am on February 19, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for sharing this video! Gotta love a good palindrome, and Weird Al just makes it better.