Super Mario Bros. 1 was an Ice Capades?
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Super Mario Bros. 1 was an Ice Capades?
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Yikes.
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1. “It’s more about the sizzle than the steak.”
Business is good for the restaurant industry. Americans now spend roughly half their food budget dining out, and restaurants expect revenue of more than $537 billion in 2007. That’s a 67% increase since 1997. But it’s not just our collective avoidance of the kitchen that’s pumping profits: Restaurants work every angle these days, using marketing psychology to get you to spend more.
At legendary Aureole Las Vegas, spandex-clad “wine angels” retrieve bottles from a 42-foot-tall spirits tower. The thinking behind the spectacle: “Anything that gets patrons’ attention will get them to spend,” says restaurant designer Mark Stech-Novak. Fast-food outlets use a high-stim environment to maximize the source of their profit: “It encourages faster turnover,” says Stephani Robson, senior lecturer at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. “Specifically, the use of bright light, bright colors, upbeat music and seating that does not encourage lolling.”
Even menus are rigged. “We list the item that makes the most profit first so it catches your eye,” says restaurant consultant Linda Lipsky, “and bury the highest-cost item in the middle.”
Science Fiction movies have been a source for speculation about the future of technology and human computer interaction. This paper presents a survey of different kinds of interaction designs in movies during the past decades and relates the techniques of the films to existing technologies and prototypes where possible.
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It seems that Satan isn’t quite as ambitious as God when it comes to murder. The graph comes from here but I’m not sure who made it.
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Steve from Dwinding in Unbelief researched this last year and posted where the numbers come from in the bible in this post.
A Japanese slasher movie about hair extensions gone bad.
There are 7 parts to the documentary which you can find here.
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