Synesthesia
My friend Michelle sees English letters and some Chinese characters as having colors. She doesn't like sites about letter-color synesthesia because they always get the colors of the letters wrong.
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Color-constancy illusion
Michelle, Lauren, and I stumbled on a strong illusion last night. It's similar to the checkerboard illusion but involves color rather than just shades of gray. The "blue" tiles on top of the left cube...
View ArticleIllusory contour in an advertisement
The woman in this clever clothing advertisement is as convincing as the white triangle in the Kanizsa Triangle illusion.
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Race conditions in security dialogs
I discovered arbitrary code execution holes in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera that involve human reaction time. One version of the attack works like this: The page contains a captcha displaying...
View ArticleOptical illusion in Firefox
Steps to reproduce: Select "About Mozilla Firefox" from the "Help" menu. Click the "Credits" button. Read the credits as they scroll by. After the end of the credits list (don't bother trying to read...
View ArticleMaking Firefox faster for humans
User experience designers Alex Faaborg and Alexander Limi are looking to broaden the scope of efforts to make Firefox faster. Until recently, most of the effort has involved reducing the computation...
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