Linkpile

• Empathy FAIL: Virtual reality experiment results: “After this brief immersive experience, White participants who’d assumed a new identity as a Black person, and seen their new identity in the mirror, showed increased implicit racial bias.”
• And now, Michael Jackson’s final product endorsement: “The Promethian—the top-of-the-line model of Indiana’s Batesville Casket Co.—can be had by anyone willing to plunk down the $25,000 it costs to have one. When you call, just ask for model no. Z94-665-LH.”
• Hello Kitty Taser Gun: Nuff said.
• Trust: I thought this was a funny sentence: “Here is where the brain comes in handy.” Finally! The brain “comes in handy.” Anyway, the actual writeup here about trust and the brain is interesting.
• Eco-friendly Picnic Pack: “The plates, cups and bowls are made from 100% sugar cane fiber (bagasse), the utensils are produced with potato starch and the napkins are from recycled paper.”
• Empowering, um, people who can afford iPhones.: “City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances – nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights – and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed. City officials say the application, dubbed Citizen Connect, is the first of its kind in the nation.” Yay?

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