Nathan Nelson

The evolution of singing utter nonsense

1976:

2009:

Happy Friday

Nearly three hours and fifty reasons why 80s music rocked. Click here to play.
No. You can’t have a track listing. Just listen to it like you would a radio station. And no skipping tracks. It’s one. Big. Track.
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My My David Cameron

*Blows dust off long-neglected blog*

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UPDATE: You can now vote for the posters – VOTE KITTEH.

The man who showed me what spaceships look like

Spice leaking from a ruptured pirate ship by Chris Foss
Have you heard of Chris Foss? If you've seen any of the major science fiction films of the last thirty years, you may have seen the influence of his work. He worked on visualisations for a never-produced film adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (no, [...]

Human perception – what’s your reality?

via boingboing.net
This Boing Boing video got me thinking about my psychology studies, and just what a fascinating thing perception is. People with synesthesia involuntarily associate colours with objects, days, letters and numbers, but they’re just perceiving things in a slightly different way from everyone else, which is no less amazing.
When I got excited about perception [...]