Alpha Complex made real- April 16, 2008 Alpha Complex comes to life in Japanese photographer Joe Nishizawa's incredible photos of underground Tokyo.(Via Chris Nakashima-Brown at No Fear of the Future.)http://www.costik.com/paranoia/2008/04/alpha-complex-made-real.html PARANOIA in the real world: Your 23% smile is insufficient, citizen- April 10, 2008 Loyal citizen Elle-R-KNO of Paranoia-Live.net forwards this Wired blog report of breakthroughs in Japanese smile-measuring technology:The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp. ...In a demonstration, a camcorder took videos of journalists covering the announcement. Percentage numbers indicating how much each person was smiling popped up in bold blue letters next to their faces on a monitor, flashing higher or lower as...http://www.costik.com/paranoia/2008/04/paranoia-in-real-world-your-23-smile-is.html The real world now 40% paranoid- April 7, 2008 The King's College London Institute of Psychiatry posted a story on April Fool's Day that seems not to be a joke: "Virtual reality tube ride reveals extent of public paranoia."Researchers stuck 200 test subjects on a four-minute virtual-reality simulation of a subway train ride. "The carriage contained neutral computer people (avatars) that breathed, looked around, and sometimes met the gaze of the participants." And lo and behold, the test subjects were spooked!The research, led by...http://www.costik.com/paranoia/2008/04/real-world-now-40-paranoid.html Reasons to be Cheerful- April 2, 2008 The new issue 55 of Mongoose Publishing's free online magazine Signs & Portents includes a short, pithy PARANOIA article by Gareth (The Traitor's Manual) Hanrahan. "Reasons to be Cheerful" has nothing to do with the Greg Egan short story of that name. Rather, the article lists an array of secret motives Troubleshooter characters harbor (escape, drugs, gaining mutations, "free thinking"), along with conditions that satisfy those motives. By achieving these hidden goals, players earn Perversity...http://www.costik.com/paranoia/2008/04/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html ParanoiaFiles.com- April 1, 2008 I hate posting on April Fool's Day, AKA "Internet Jackass Day," because anything I say is automatically discounted. But this happened to be the day loyal citizen Saul Resnikoff at Paranoia-Live.net forwarded to me a kind invitation from one Lisa Axelrod to look at ParanoiaFiles.com.This site takes "paranoia in the real world" literally -- it's a collection of reports on technology from the viewpoint of, not PARANOIA RPG players, but literal sufferers of paranoid personality disorder. The...http://www.costik.com/paranoia/2008/04/paranoiafilescom.html |