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• A bookmark manager for Windows
  Added: 18/08/2011

  Tuntulis — a freeware application that allows you to save frequently used links and generate a start page for your browser based on them — is now available for download in the Tools section.

• Perceptual bias
  Added: 26/09/2008
  An illustration of perceptual bias based on the well-known “13” and “B” example. Our example is based on visual similarity between Cyrillic “bl” and Latin “BL” when lower-case.
• Defamiliarization
  Added: 11/07/2007
  The concept of defamiliarization (dehabitualization, also bestrangement), as reflected in Victor Shklovsky’s “Art as technique”, is a very good way of explaining what “artfulness” of art and, consequently, “literariness” of literature are all about.
• Instant messaging
  Added: 11/07/2007
  Communication by means of instant messaging software, as many users recognize, is different from oral face-to-face communication with the same interlocutor, so is the image that one creates of oneself while communicating in that way.
• David Lynch's films
  Added: 11/07/2007
  Sigmund Freud, who was, strangely enough, suffering from a neurotic disorder, never looked into his patients’ eyes. Never admitting that a neurotic disorder was the reason, Freud and his followers – later theoreticians of psychoanalysis – explained that it was only possible to get the “freedom of association” if the doctor’s and the patient’s eyes did not meet. Lynch goes further in this wish to get free associations: he reveals the subconscious of his characters without even being present beside them or anywhere in the near, not speaking about looking into their eyes.