There's a humorous post over at Shrink Rap about using patients online communication style (specifically emoticons) to determine what treatment plan to follow. Here is a partial list:

:-) stable. cont prozac 40mg. f/u 3 mos.
:-)) reduce prozac to 20mg. f/u 1mo.
:-)))) d/c prozac. add lithium 300 tid. check TSH, creat. f/u 1wk.
:-D add depakote. check lithium level, LFTs, CBC. f/u 1wk.
:-| stable. cont prozac 40 mg. f/u 1mo.
:-( increase prozac to 60mg. f/u 2wk.
:'-( add wellbutrin SR 150mg. f/u 1wk.
X-( call 911. send to ER. check for OD.

Head over to Shrink Rap for the rest!

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When it comes to financial matters, people tend to fall into two categories: prevention-focused (risk-averse) or promotion-focused (gain-oriented). A study in the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research tests comparative ads that are positively fra

Fabulous: Max Dursteler's The Freezing Rotation Illusion won the 2006 1st Prize in the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest.

Or see the Infinite Regress Illusion Second Prize Winner 2006.

May 12, 2007 ten finalists - none visualized online - were voted on live and hopefully video announcements will be online soon, but for now here's last year's bests. There's also the 2006 3rd Prize winner published online, at the Bar-Cross-Ellipse Illusion, but otherwise, most of the illusions are not published online. Which makes writing about them, when most people can't see them, seem silly. Hope for videos of the 2007 winners.

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