Friday, October 24, 2003
GLOBAL FLASH MOB TOMMOROW! OCTOBER 25th
Thursday, October 23, 2003
SELLING YOU A NEW PAST
"Is your memory playing tricks on you, or did you find shopping at your over-priced supermarket last week a wonderful experience? Did you have a great time on that lacklustre package holiday a couple of years ago? And are you quite sure whether you enjoyed that cold, tasteless meal the other day?
Advertisers have found a new way to mess with your mind.
A group of US marketing researchers claim that brand owners can make their customers believe they had a better experience of a product or service than they really did by bombarding them with positive messages after the event. Advocates of the technique, known as 'memory morphing', claim it can be used to improve customers' perceptions of products and encourage them to repeat their purchases and recommend brands to friends."
Independent News
Advertisers have found a new way to mess with your mind.
A group of US marketing researchers claim that brand owners can make their customers believe they had a better experience of a product or service than they really did by bombarding them with positive messages after the event. Advocates of the technique, known as 'memory morphing', claim it can be used to improve customers' perceptions of products and encourage them to repeat their purchases and recommend brands to friends."
Independent News
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
PHYSICS: Universe a gigantic hologram?
"Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram
By studying the mysterious properties of black holes, physicists have deduced absolute limits on how much information a region of space or a quantity of matter and energy can hold. Related results suggest that our universe, which we perceive to have three spatial dimensions, might instead be 'written' on a two-dimensional surface, like a hologram. Our everyday perceptions of the world as three-dimensional would then be either a profound illusion or merely one of two alternative ways of viewing reality. A grain of sand may not encompass our world, but a flat screen might."
Scientific American
By studying the mysterious properties of black holes, physicists have deduced absolute limits on how much information a region of space or a quantity of matter and energy can hold. Related results suggest that our universe, which we perceive to have three spatial dimensions, might instead be 'written' on a two-dimensional surface, like a hologram. Our everyday perceptions of the world as three-dimensional would then be either a profound illusion or merely one of two alternative ways of viewing reality. A grain of sand may not encompass our world, but a flat screen might."
Scientific American
Friday, October 17, 2003
MUSICK: A Loopy Voyage at the Nightlight in Chapel Hill
there's musical pleasures for your Third Ears this Friday the 17th in Chapel
Hill at the NIGHTLIGHT!...
PS211 curates this month's installment of Recess, the monthly
experimental music showcase at the Nightlight in Chapel HIll. Six folks from
PsychicPS211-land will toy around with loops and drones in various forms
Featuring:
Embryonic Crusader (aka Psychick Revolution homebody), Micheal Thomas
Jackson, The Emerging Sea and The Tape Is Now The Music
Go Nightlight Website for Directions/Details:
http://www.dyss.net/nightlight/index.php
Hill at the NIGHTLIGHT!...
PS211 curates this month's installment of Recess, the monthly
experimental music showcase at the Nightlight in Chapel HIll. Six folks from
PsychicPS211-land will toy around with loops and drones in various forms
Featuring:
Embryonic Crusader (aka Psychick Revolution homebody), Micheal Thomas
Jackson, The Emerging Sea and The Tape Is Now The Music
Go Nightlight Website for Directions/Details:
http://www.dyss.net/nightlight/index.php
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
PHONOGRAPHY: quiet american, take a one minute vacation
Surely you can spare a minute to clean your ears? Take a one-minute vacation from the life you are living.
One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.
quiet american
One-minute vacations are unedited recordings of somewhere, somewhen. Sixty seconds of something else. Sixty seconds to be someone else.
quiet american
Friday, October 10, 2003
A:// FLOPPYSWOP / MADE FOR 56K /
...been avoiding the computer as much as possible the last few weeks, need sunshine, exercise...
ran into this cool site today though:
A:// FLOPPYSWOP / MADE FOR 56K / : "floppyswop.co.uk.
A place for sharing any files small enough to fit on a conventional floppy disc (1.44meg High density), art, media, sound, noise, its up to you, all files are hosted here for taking and swopping.."
ran into this cool site today though:
A:// FLOPPYSWOP / MADE FOR 56K / : "floppyswop.co.uk.
A place for sharing any files small enough to fit on a conventional floppy disc (1.44meg High density), art, media, sound, noise, its up to you, all files are hosted here for taking and swopping.."
