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the Sixteenth of May, 2003 |
"Caution: Please escape from this page before you feel
sick. Please do not copy and show these figures to other people. Please
do not make a direct link to this page. Note that these figures may
cause at least vection (induced motion perception in the equilibrium
sense)."
And you will die after
seven days. Just one dangerous picture in a fantastic gallery of
beautiful, brain-killing optical illusions. Particularly likely to
induce impressed, low-grade nausea are Swirls and Convection. Mr Kitaoka really should start up
a Cafepress franchise, and conquer the world. [via Joh]
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This is probably what I deserve for doing my periodic "squid" search
on Google news, but "Squid
Run Raises a Squawk at Harbor" seems to have been written in
the style of a dialogue-heavy children's story book, and carries some
very sinister Lovecraftian undertones - five local councillors standing
around on a moonlit squid-teeming dock, debating whether the town would be liable
for unwelcome out-of-towners "falling in because the lights are out".
(And surely "Sakonnet" is some sort of Egyptian demigod?)
"By the time the town figures out what to do, the squid and their pursuers
will be long gone."
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Something to investigate; CCG Workshop is an online card-game engine that
has thoroughly flagrant support for a lot of scanned-in "legacy" card games,
including the mighty NetRunner
and the intriguingly inconspicuous
Judge Dredd
CCG. Might be good for Dvorak and random card-game kicking
around, as well, if it's configurable. But then, so might
Thoth
and GCCG;
I should get around to trying them all out, rather than just being
absently impressed by their screenshots.
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| Tuesday |
the Thirteenth |
"Refined competency requires too much effort and has
little attraction. It would require practice and that usually bores an
INTP. Hence, it is common to see INTPs dabbling at many things,
achieving competency, just enough to prove to themselves that they could
become more proficient if they wished, but rarely actually bothering to
refine their skills further."
This profile
of the INTP personality type reads like an eerily
precise dossier and user manual ("The best way to get an INTP to do
something is...") - it's actually a lot more accurate than I'd have
expected a 16-personality-type breakdown to be, right down to musical
tastes and cynical film-viewing habits.
I'm still an INTP this morning,
apparently, and
spurious
scientific upheavals aside, would hope to remain so. [via
Ben]
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| Monday |
the Twelfth |
"Subject: secundaveramus melodietje kevan zaleska" - I know
I'm just caught in the crossfire of a war between spammers and Bayesian
spam filters, but the filler words are feeling more and more cabalistic
and sinister. I haven't even started writing the online script version of
Abulafia yet -
I've been putting it off because somebody else must surely have thought of
it, but maybe they have, and they've been killed off by Templar spammers.
If I die in mysterious circumstances this week, you know where to start.
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