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Interesting and related to career-luck convo I had earlier tonight: "We asked subjects to flip through a news-paper [and] count the number of photographs… after about three pages, there'd be a massive half-page advert saying, STOP COUNTING. THERE ARE 43 PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS NEWSPAPER. It was next to a photo, so we knew they were looking at that area. A few pages later, there was another massive advert that said, STOP COUNTING. TELL THE EXPERIMENTER YOU'VE SEEN THIS AND WIN 150 POUNDS.
For the most part, the unlucky would just flip past these things. Lucky people would flip through and laugh and say, "There are 43 photos. That's what it says. Do you want me to bother counting?"… Most of the unlucky people didn't notice."
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I've linked bits and bobs of themselves' new mixtape too many times now, but it's for real now. Download away!
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I am so unintentionally guilty of this.
links for 2009-03-17
March 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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1 Jobscure // Mar 17, 2009 at 11:45 am
I do the opposite of growing sentences. One could say I hack sentences with Hemenway. I write long, peculiar sentences with lots of digressionary subclauses; then I go back, chop them up, and reassemble the short, simple sentences into ordered sequences of sentences and paragraphcs. I dunno. Does that make me odd?
2 GrimEden // Mar 17, 2009 at 3:03 pm
The awesomeness of Growing Sentences is indescribable.
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