Zorac's LiveJournal

"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices" - yeah, right. That's going to work really well when every desk in an open-plan layout has it's own set of 5.1 speakers. Plus they're suggesting that we'll all be using emailed audio and video for intra-office communications - have they never heard of the telephone (or even Voice Over IP), heaven forbid anyone actually walk across the room and actually talk to someone. Read the full article for further examples of Microsoft Deeply Not Getting It.

A couple of people pointed me at this neat illusion, a classic example of the eyes seeing what they expect to see (and yes, the two greys are genuinely the same - cut and paste if you don't believe it).

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This article in American Scientist has some explanation and more examples.