Happy New Year
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Happy New Year
Please don't Drink and Drive this new year. Shocking Image Warning
New Year - Wikipedia
New Year's Eve set to be colder than in Iceland
BlackDog's Happy New Year Party. One for the kids.
New Year Traditions Around the World
Hogmanay - Wikipedia
Auld Lang Syne - Wikipedia
Late extras:
One from the archives just in time for tonight. How to Photograph Fireworks Displays
Drinks Around the World Ring in the New Year 24 times over (via)
I wish you all the best and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Take care, have fun and I'll see you on the other side.
31 Essential Gmail Tips
Legal threats against The Pirate Bay - TPB response to EA Games
The Best 404 Errors
The Pirate Bay Launches Free Mobile Video Converter
5 Awesome free PHP web hosting services (via)
File2HD.com - Download any file from any site. Works great for Flash Games.
18 Free Ways To Download Any Video off the Internet
51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps
7 Things Google Chrome Needs - Now That It’s Out of Beta
50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics (via)
31 Essential Gmail Tips
Google scrubs urinating woman from Street View
Realistic Food Shaped USB Flash Drives
Top 10 Ways to Lock Down Your Data
42 essential tips for your new games console
The Video Game Systems of the 1983 Sears Wishbook
30+ Great Resources for Blogger Templates (via)
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
Reinstall and Restore Your Windows PC in Eight Easy Steps
Everything You Need to Know How to Do in Windows
How to emulate every Nintendo system in Windows
Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodle
Cute puppy pictures
Creative Grooming. Scroll down to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Poodle. (via)
Shark jumps out of aquarium into swimming pool
Dolphins save Puerto Princesa fisherman
Giant woodlice arrive in Britain for first time
8 Octopus Facts (one for each arm)
Oarfish
Farting gorillas force Brussels sprouts off zoo's Christmas menu
Orangutans learn to trade favours
The Life and Death of Africa's Oldest Chimp
Thai woman sets new world record... for holding scorpion in her mouth
6 Founding Members of the Internet Zoo
Cute Things Falling Asleep (via)
5 Arctic Animals that Turn White for Winter
Chilling game of hide and seek with a hungry polar bear
Animals get sad sometimes too (26 Photos)
Animal Migration - 20 Truly Breathtaking Pictures
Dogless shepherd uses wolf poster to control his flock of sheep
Monday, December 29, 2008
Children of the Great War
Children of the Great War (via)
14 strange and scary military technologies
YouTube - WW2 In Color's videos
Petty disputes led to Nazi denunciation in WWII France
Why Does War Breed More Boys?
3 Really Long Wars and 3 Really Short Wars
Odd But True Facts About World War Two
A Vietnam Photo Essay
JM's World War One Sketchbook. The images presented on this website are from a set of two World War One sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria's Special Collections Library. They contain approximately 130 water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in France and Belgium between 1917 and 1918.
A Collection of WWII Letters To and From The Home Front
George Duncan's Historical Facts of WWII
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Dave's Web of Lies
A mixed bag of links.
To each his own microwave
Riga holiday reviews. Very mixed and funny reviews. Thanks Dave.
Ten years without a haircut
The Worst ‘Roommate Wanted’ Ad EVER!
World's Most Incredible Human Towers
Elephant butt slide
Microsoft copied the name for Xbox 360... from Sony
Walter and his cat, 1995
Can the level of math education sink any lower?
The Payatas Dumpsite
Giant snowman rises again in Alaska — mysteriously
Dave's Web of Lies
Lies We Tell Kids
Best Roller Coaster Souvenir Photos Ever
'World's unluckiest tourists' witness three separate terrorist attacks
Optical Illusions
Spinning wheels...
If you focus on the picture, all the wheels start to spin (in both directions). However, if you then concentrate on a single wheel, that wheel will stop whilst the others keep turning.
Look closely, the orange circles are the same size...
An illusion that plays on our perception of relative size. The first central circle appears smaller than the circle on the right yet they are identical in size. This is the Ebbinghaus Illusion.
First described by the British psychologist, James Fraser, in 1908 this is known as the Fraser Spiral Illusion. The overlapping black arcs appear to form a spiral; but, the arcs are simply a series of concentric circles.
An example of the Zollner Illusion. The long black lines are in fact parallel to each other. The illusion is created by the shorter lines being at an angle to the longer lines, this creates the impression that one end of the longer lines is nearer to us.
In this image, the two shapes are in fact identical in size. The Jastrow Illusion was discovered by Joseph Jastrow, the American psychologist, in 1889.
First discovered in 1860 by Johann Poggendorf, the Poggendorff Illusion, illustrates how the brain can be tricked by the interaction of diagonal and horizontal lines. At first viewing, one assumes that the blue line is a continuation of the black line. However, on closer viewing it is actually the red line.
Known as White's Illusion, is a counterintuitive illusion. When a grey rectangle is mainly surrounded by black it should look lighter. In this case, the grey rectangles are exactly the same shade of grey.
A Motion Illusion. The brain's reaction to the colour contrasts and position of the shapes is such that this static image appears to be moving.
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