Author Archives: Kelly Boudreau

Perceptual blindness This is an interesting article that shows how most of us wouldn’t notice if a gorilla came on the floor during a basketball game, if we’d otherwise been given the task of counting the number of pass plays during the game. It is based on a scientific study that aimed to show thatContinue reading “Perceptual blindness This is an interesting art…”

Friday Five 1. What was the last song you heard? -Shut Up song by black eyed peas [grrrr] 2. What were the last two movies you saw? -Down with Love + Finding Nemo 3. What were the last three things you purchased? -Vase for my bamboo [the bay], Latte [javaU], Oven ready Silocon muffin trayContinue reading “Friday Five 1. What was the last song you hear…”

Friday five I’m going to start a new thing here. I’m going to start answering regularly the Friday Five blog questions? We just won’t bother letting the blogger who runs the blog with the questions know that we’re participating privately. Kell/others: Go ahead and create a new post, copy and paste the questions and answerContinue reading “Friday five I’m going to start a new thing here…”

:: Youth culture :: Found this excellent article in The Weekly Standard about youth culture. Seems a fairly balanced view and it really makes me want to take that 400 level sociology course on youth culture during fall term this year.

Fun with Google Via one of my soci mailing lists, found out about a neat beta service available at Google called News Alerts. Basically, you enter in the keywords of anything you want to track that might happen in the world (i.e. “video games”) and Google will mail you a daily summary of news onContinue reading “Fun with Google Via one of my soci mailing list…”

Digital Memory Was talking to a friend of mine recently about this blog, and it’s contents. /log on Killkell: it is essentially its my brain digitalized (a)Mark(6): umm, ok (a)Mark(6): guess backups are easier if you do that (a)Mark(6): can go out and get ratasred and if you wipe no matter, you can reload allContinue reading “Digital Memory Was talking to a friend of mine …”

Happy Birthday!! My brother gets one year older today – looking at the symmetrical face of 33 I believe. Three cheers a more beers to you jelloman =) I miss you tons!

Moving this blog A college student has created a whole new way to blog that actually looks like it might be easier than Blogger. Want to try this out with me?

Fun in games While bopping around Ludology.org and following some of the links in the blogroll, I came across this post and the following quote really struck me as interesting: “Games are pleasurable because they are rule-based, because they are well-defined (and definable). It is the formal nature of games that makes them fun.” WhatContinue reading “Fun in games While bopping around Ludology.org …”

:: Defining the post-modern :: While meandering the net, I came across this page that encapsulates a whole bunch of facts and concepts within postmodernism. Seemed pretty good overall.