Fresser.

THIS IS YOUR GOD. Six (!) years ago when we dreamed up ConQwest, when we started Area/Code, I used to reference this scene all the time. It was the specific inspiration for using QR codes four or five years before they really appeared in North America. Sprint, sorry we took down the messaging backbone. Blame Dennis.

In those six years, either I forgot about it, or it just became less remarkable. Looking at it again for this essay, reminded of how much Shepard Fairey borrowed from it.

Anyway: best Rowdy Roddy Piper movie ever!

They Live - Obey, Consume, This is your God

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Fundamentally misunderstanding visual perception: Adults’ belief in visual emissions.

Abstract

The authors reviewed research about a profound misconception that is present among college students, namely, the belief that the process of vision includes emanations from the eyes, an idea that is consistent with the extramission theory of perception, which was originally professed by early Greek philosophers and which persisted in scholarly circles for centuries. The authors document the strength and breadth of this phenomenon and the abject failure of traditional educational techniques to overcome this belief, and they reveal that students are leaving psychology courses with a flawed understanding of one of the most studied processes in the history of psychology-visual perception.”

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PsycNET

Winer, Gerald A.; Cottrell, Jane E.; Gregg, Virginia; Fournier, Jody S.; Bica, Lori A.

American Psychologist, Vol 57(6-7), Jun-Jul 2002, 417-424.

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Born circa 965, in Basra, Iraq … he lived mainly in Cairo, Egypt, dying there at age 76.

Over-confident about practical application of his mathematical knowledge, he assumed that he could regulate the floods of the Nile. After being ordered by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth ruler of the Fatimid caliphate, to carry out this operation, he quickly perceived the impossibility of what he was attempting to do, and retired from engineering.

Fearing for his life, he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest, during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death.

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— Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham: Alhazen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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