MetaFilter Joins the Rest of the Internet for April Fools' Day

MetaFilter was founded in 1999, before the Cat Age. For a long time, it remained a site for sophisticated conversations on complex topics. But who wants that? Let's pin cat photos instead.

Link -via Jessamyn West


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Wow. For a moment there I thought I had a mini stroke and all the words got jumbled. *phew* It's odd I can easily read that I guess our brains just naturally are able to focus out the "noise" and recognize the words. Gotta love our squishy gray matter. :)

And I have to agree with MrPumpernickel: Names are definitely one of the hardest things to differentiate in this sort of brain trickery.
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I always thought there was something fishy with that study. I couldn't make heads or tails of some words without serious thinking. "Cetilns" really got me.
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I'd like to point out that the context of the words really help out. You brain kind of 'expects' certain words, which is why sometimes its easy to fill in a word for someone in a conversation if they pause. The more difficult words are easier to 'guess' bassed on the easier words around them.
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