I am now soliciting vegan fish stick recipes to test. Here is a fairly complicated-sounding one, involving kelp powder, Amino acids, and unheardof seasonings. Here is what I would call a “quick and dirty” way, which would be dipping in soy sauce, lemon juice, and breading. The secret trick will most likely be the way the tofu is cut up. It can’t be just a square block, or you won’t have that terribly-processed-cheap-fish feel to it.
When someone is driving and they are checking the lane they want to change into, they inadvertently drift into the opposite lane (not sure if this has anything to do with spatial distortion)
People instinctually/subconciously slow down when starting to drive on an overpass/bridge (I read this in a study somewhere, but now can’t find it)
Now that I have comments, I can ask questions and actually get replies, so here goes…
This story about the little blond kid from “Family Ties” getting busted for a DUI made me wonder: How does someone pick a seemingly random police blotter item and match the person’s name to figure out that the person is/was a celebrity (and thus making it “news”)? Is there some sort of very large database of people (which includes their birth names!) so that when their names show up in a police report, the media gets alerted to it? Inquiring minds want to know.
HP ScanJet 4670 See-Thru Vertical Scanner: I was purchasing a scanner last night, and was terribly intrigued by this scanner that stands up vertically on a wire easel, is see-through, and can basically be lifted off and placed on top of anything to scan it. I almost purchased it, but I had no idea of how well the concept really works in practice. The reviews are lukewarm, so maybe it was a good decision not to get it, but it still intrigues me.
I’m not sure why it amazes me, since it is inherent to the technology of aerial imagery, but I find it neat that the yard marker legend matches up exactly to the the size of the field in a football stadium.
Doesn’t anyone else find it oddly disturbing about commercials starring CEOs of small-yet-still-bastardly-large corporations pandering to the general consumer and thanking them for choosing the “underdog”, yet somewhat underhandedly thanking them for making that person amazingly rich?
This weekend I scored an original unopened 1970 edition of “The Propaganda Game” from WFF ‘N PROOF! It’s spectacular. And it’s got the sponsorship of the infamous Lorne Greene! For the unfamiliar, it’s a game where you learn the intriguing techniques used by professionals to mold public opinion. Players learn to recognize “bandwagon” appeals, faulty analogy, out-of-context quotes, rationalization, technical jargon, emotional appeals and many more. In playing this game learners develop deeper insight about the underlying premises in TV ads, newspaper editorials, and political speeches.
“In a democratic society such as ours, it is the role of every citizen to make decisions after evaluating many ideas. It is specially important that a citizen be able to analyze and distinguish between the emotional aura surrounding an idea and the actual content of that idea. It is this goal of clear thinking that The Propaganda Game addresses.” — Commander Adama Lorne Greene