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The New York Times has released a driving simulation Flash game that tests your ability to multitask. It’s far from scientific (and so was the NBC driving experiment) since the game requires a constant rate of lane switching and has a constant rate of incoming text messages, but it’s fun and educational nonetheless. While I [...]
The Fasten Seatbelts to the World project is aimed at identifying cultural differences in Europe to prevent barriers in communication and cooperation. They made this fun video detailing some of the dos and don’ts. Many of them surprised me! The action starts at 1:00 and continues till about 4:00. One thing that surprised me about [...]
Editor’s Note: This is my entry for Dr. Pete’s “Win A Usability Library” contest. When I started college at RIT, I entered with the thought that I would exit as a web developer. I wasn’t completely happy with that thought because it seemed like a job where I was headed straight toward a cubicle with [...]
The reCAPTCHA Project takes words from books that computers can’t read (via OCR) but humans (hopefully) can. For more info, see my overview of reCAPTCHA back in 2007. Well, this weekend, the folks at Something Awful and Buzzfeed are having some fun with the random phrases that are generated… here’s my contribution to the party: [...]
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