"An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attention wasn’t superficial. It seemingly extended to ( Read more... )

Let's get some of the nonsense out of the way to begin with, because it's after three o'clock in the afternoon and I want a cup of tea my Inboxes are already fit to bust.

Firstly, as viewers of today's Daily Politics programme on BBC2 will attest, it only takes the duration of Prime Minister's Question Time to wipe the smug looks from the faces of ( Read more... )

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Mess with your perceptions of other things after staring at the image for ten seconds:

http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/warp_your_room.php

"He said, 'I'll make you use a damned pen even if it kills me.' Odd chap."


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...because I probably couldn't afford him.


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