We’ve spent the afternoon going through pictures.
Author Archives: Andrew
Lazy Afternoon ...
Happy Halloween! ...
Happy Halloween everyone!
Afternoon nap ...
Okay, so I kept reading about language and thought and came across a fascinating article I had read a few years ago. Chew on this: A recent set of studies suggests that the grammatical genders assigned to objects by a language do indeed influence people’s mental representations of objects (Boroditsky et al., in press). […] Spanish […]
Light ...
I love our living room in the afternoon.
A Language of Smiles — Olivia Judson Blog — NYTimes.com A set of experiments investigating the effects of facial movements on mood used different vowel sounds as a stealthy way to get people to pull different faces. (The idea was to avoid people realizing they were being made to scowl or smile.) The results showed that if you read […]
Google Maps Navigation: A Free, Ass-Kicking, Turn-by-Turn Mobile App — Google maps navigation — Gizmodo If Google sells this in the App Store for zero dollars, those millions of bucks Apple makes off of GPS app sales will likely disappear. It’s not for us to worry about until there’s no more GPS competition except Google, and we’re dependent on […]
Not today, which is crummy, but Sunday, which was beautiful!
A few months ago I posted a graph of my music listening and was asked how I produced that. Andrew Godwin runs a really nice service called LastGraph that creates these graphs based on one’s Last.fm profile data. Of course, what would this be without a new one? (I had to check it out again, of course.) […]
2009 UN World Drug report — The Big Picture — Boston.com
