Ah yes. The mystery of the man with no peripheral vision! If not for the camera reversal, it would be impossible to not see what happened to the girl.

Unsurprising, right? More power to cognitive dissonance. There's also interesting studies (correlational) about right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), some of which I think professors at my own school work on... but it's not really my kinda thing so I can't say more about it. Peripheral fascination

... Whaddya know, naturally wikipedia sums it up nicely.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I have a better idea:
Don't break the fucking law and don't associate yourself with lawbreakers.
As for his Rule 3: Why the hell would an innocent persone mostly tell the truth, and not fully tell it?


Why do I tell little white lies some days? I consider myself a very honest person, but sometimes in regard to a particular situation... POP... out comes a little white lie... Why the hell did I say that? Fu** it, I guess I'm stuck with it.

Afterward, I'll think back and try to figure out why that little white lie came out. I had no intention of lying, it just happened. Was I looking for acceptance or just wanting to look better for that new cute co-worker? I guess. It's a mix of conscious and subconscious desires.

Now imagine you are in very stressful situation. The threat (and add on the imaginative threat too) of you going to jail, your life being ruined,etc is sitting right in your face. You really, really want the police to know that you are innocent. POP... Oh, now you're fu**ed. That accidental white lie is now evidence against your good character in court. Doesn't matter that you are innocent, it only matters what the jury thinks because they are the ones that are going to be deciding your fate.

If you are innocent, your story will come out during the trial.


Peripheral add-on in response to the lawbreaker portion:
If you watch part 2 (I know it the comment with the video is after MG's comment), the police officer speaking second says that we all break the law. He gives the example of speeding. The professor also gives an example of that there are so, so many laws that you are sure to have broken one. By strict definition, I think it would be extremely hard to find anyone who hasn't broken a single law.

Is she on the phone there? It looks very much like it, especially as she only seemed to be holding the pram with one hand at the beginning and didn't notice the pram moving forward despite looking in the general direction. As peripheral vision is usually very good at picking up movement, she must have been very distracted by something.

hmm, good point ... I think I'll just start with trying to pay more attention to cars in my peripheral vision (when stopped at a stop light).

I only discovered of this series, by watching one of the videos hehe. Their videos are amazingly and creatively created. It all just very fun stuff and I love how they made their insects fit in their world.

>> wiki:
Minuscule is a growing collection of short animations that follow the day-to-day existence of anthropomorphic insects. The characters are modelled on computer in 3D and are then set against real scenery. Each animation has a short, self contained and often humorous storyline. The audio is a combination of genuine insect and ambient recordings, and sound effects such as car or helicopter or aircraft engines, synthesized buzzings etc. Throughout each episode, no (human) words are ever spoken, Nevertheless, Anthropogenic 'insect like words' are often trumpeted by the various protagonist insects. The background settings are mostly of rural France, and include farm houses, fences, cars, road surfaces, drains, gutters and garbage bins. Humans themselves appear only peripherally (if at all) & the only consistent peripheral witnesses to many of the goings~on, are cows that appear as disinterested bystanders.

*promote
Now I'm off to watch the other ones

And don't even get me started on the OSX QuickTime export error -1309! It can be fixed half the time by adding or removing a single character from the export filename. I kid you not. You can look it up in the forums.

I love Apple, but it's just being hip sheep to say they don't crash or "just work", because they do in fact crash (crashed on me last night and this morning while transferring large amounts of data) and don't always work.

They fall prey to the same OS ills of Microsoft, but Apple doesn't try to be as accommodating as Microsoft when it comes to opening their OS up for third party peripherals and upgrades. My external Blu-Ray burner "just works" on XP (a 2001 OS) and won't work on my recent Tiger OS.

There. I've done it again. Choke again, hipsters.

Cooler than MS Surface?

Well, to be fair that's essentially the same thing as Surface. It's not clear from the video if that company is selling a multitouch interface or just the software running on the interface. "Surface" is the same type of multitouch interface shown but designed as a complete package of tools allowing 3rd parties to design applications like this one. I suspect that Cristal is an application designed to run on Surface or a similar peripheral.

Interesting that you should mention the eyes, I will elaborate because it gets even more interesting. The owl was just to my left and a little behind me, so I only peripherally glimpsed (with one eye) his flapping silhouette against the twilight as he landed some distance away. I now re-estimate it to be much less that 100 meters, more like that in feet actually.

I scanned the branches once I realized it was too cold for moths, suspecting that it was an owl because of how big it was at a distance. Once I located it, I kept my eyes locked on him as to not lose him, and started to grope my way up the two-story porch and stairs in the back of the house. It's like this...


____| - where my binoculars are
_/__| - first floor porch
_/__| - where I was


Now, the first floor porch is built with 10 inch joists, plus the decking, and the stairs come up through the porch floor. So, in the time that it took me to dart my head past the thickness of the first floor porch to try to re-fix my eye on him he took off and left only that deeply swaying branch. I realized tha he was fixed on my eyes too. So yeah, he won that staring contest .

>> ^ForgedReality:
^Do you lack an eye? How did your depth perception not chime in? O.O
The owl would kick your ass in a staring contest.

Enjoy the lyrics
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
...that mountain
...that mountain
He wants to make love to the mountain.
Tough young guys singing with bodies in their.....eh....
Finger and teeny toes
Challenge the rock.....Challenging...death!
Why do I climb the mountain?... Because I'm in love!
The is a passionate affair going on with kirk and that mountain
Kirk is on...kirk is on the mountain.
Now in order to create that illusion...sucking...some of the most
Sensational men to not only climb are veracious, fleeting and illusive and peripheral.
And that's putting me on the mountain
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?
HOLD IT PLEASE....
To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
To envelop...that mountain
To hug the mountain
...that mountain
...that mountain
He wants to make love to the mountain.
And the climb is going where no man has gone before
Where no man has gone before!
Challenge the rock.....Challenging...death!
Why do I climb the mountain?... Because I'm in love!

Printers rank #2 on my list of peripherals I destroyed the most of, only beaten by keyboards. "Respect ma authoritay!" and a broom were my tools of choice in handling printers lately.

My heavily used 5 year old iPod has had zero problems. My 4 year old MBP is starting to show its age, but over all has been pretty dependable.

If I was going to fault Apple for something, it would be the outrageous expense of its hardware and peripherals.

(Jaded old videogame player input henceforth)

They both look cool, but so has alot of this stuff from the past at the time. I think the main reason why the Wii was successful is they had dirt simple but fun games you could play with the controller, and they were bundled with the system.

What matters in the end is how the games utilize the technology, not some fancy tech demo or video showing people "enjoying" a new product. There are a good amount of Wii games that make proper use of the Wii-mote and a good amount that should have been designed using a traditional controller as well.

The coolest thing about the PS3 addon seemed to be the creative aspects with the building blocks (Tetris with this?) or the drawing program... however I don't see playing a FPS with it when you would do what, move around a single room and wait for enemies to come to you? How do you move forward and around in a traditional level without going through a wall yourself? I hate to say this but the old fashioned controls are better suited for this.

In the end there is also cost and support. Developers will have to make proper use of the Motion Plus for the Wii as well as Natal or whatever Sony will call this thing for it to be successful. Given the range of interactive peripherals from the Zapper, R.O.B., U-Force, Powerglove, Activator, EyeToy to what we have now... I'm obviously rather skeptical on how useful this stuff *really* is for games.

I would be worried more about price, but seeing how were ok with Rock Band sets being $160 or so I guess thats not a limiting factor here.

Edit: I guess I'm not the only one who shared cynicism http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/6/3/

While I agree with your observations on the Molyneux hype machine, he at least does provide brief glimpses of originality and possibility for things like this, even if they don't always deliver for full fledged game experiences. Someone else might be able to do something special with it though. Frankly, when he came out on stage for Natal, I thought for sure he would be showing a tech demo for a Black and White 3 project with this. The motion interaction is exactly what he was trying to convey the first time around. Milo, I think, is far more compelling.

As for why we haven't incorporated this tech before, who knows? Processor speed in consoles is finally fast enough to handle the data? Frame rate and resolution for cameras was too low? Stereoscopic spacial recognition being new? I think with camera tech getting better and cheaper, this now becomes economically viable, where before the price point was probably out of reach for a console peripheral. But I'm just guessing.

>> ^Pprt:
>> ^vairetube:
Well, your assertion is... that a third-worlder, or member of a peripheral, exploited nation, is Non-White... The only way you could feign ignorance is if this was a printed story with no picture or names.

Racial slur? What are you on about? -Pprt


I fail to comprehend how saying someone is from the "Third World" is a racial slur. What's the nomenclature these days? Underdeveloped nation? No, sorry, that was 20 years ago. Today it's "developing nation".


Okay, I'll bite and give you the benefit of the doubt and explain to you, like a four year old, what is offensive about your comment:

From the narrator and the specifics of the video, this clip is from the USA, your assumption that this person is not originally from the USA makes a clear statement that there is somehow a difference between white people that came on the mayflower and a Mexican who can in the 1800s and has relatives still living in the united states, but bare a racial resemblance to someone who lives in say Mexico.

The major issue with your statement is that you assumed that this guy, just from his looks, is fresh off the boat or perhaps an illegal immigrant to the USA.

So let me break it down real simple for ya: you assumed that this guy is somehow related to the third-world just because of his looks. For all you know, his family may have been in the USA far longer than what I assume yours has. Therefore, there is a strong racial comment when you call someone a "third-worlder."

It's like saying "Darkie" or "Abbo" or "wetback."

You made an assumption on his background by the simple fact of what he looks like. It is racial. And if you still don't get it, well, you might want to take some touchy-feely sensitivity course designed for such situations.