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Cool Illusion

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. Now, concentrate on the black + in the center of the picture. After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating if you're lucky! It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see. Link

Blue Balls

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"i am nothing of a builder
but here i dream i was an architect
and i built this balustrade
to keep you home, to keep you safe
from the outside world
but the angles and the corners
even though my work is unparalelled
they never seemed to meet
this structure fell about our feet
and we were free to go"

Surrealistic Images

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The Ultimate Home

Lundberg Design deck (and cabin).
Russel Wright's modernist house and studio.

Overheard

Two amusing sites Overheard In New York, Overheard In The Office, with accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit, just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration.

Nike Campaign "Borrows" Album Art

and then Pulls Major Threat Ad, Issues Apology.


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Art Dorks

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World Beard and Moustache Championships

I don't know why...

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Coin-Operated

Check out the nifty software that can count your "mouse miles" and the program wich traces your mouse movements and captures them in a graphic diagram.

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The Picture Of Everything

This picture incorporates all the modern and ancient wonders of the world, 157 Pokemon, reproductions of Alex Grey, MC Escher and other famous artists works, many space ships, religious figures, cartoon characters, historical figures and places, imaginary buildings, super heroes, famous vehicles, movie stars, rock stars, corporate logos, flags of the world, and robots in one giant picture.

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SodaPlay

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Movies of Levitating Objects

This is old but interesting.
Real levitation makes use of diamagnetism , an intrinsic property of many materials referring to their ability to expel a portion, even if a minute one, of an external magnetic field. Electrons in such materials rearrange their orbits slightly so that they expel the external field. As a result, diamagnetic materials repel and are repelled by strong magnetic fields. Three basic schemes using various aspects of diamagnetism allow the true levitation: superconducting levitation, Diamagnetic levitation, diamagnetically stabilised levitation.

Movies

Commercial Sounds

Comprehensive guide to songs used in commercials. There are a few suprises here.

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The Real Simpsons

Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer on Conan. WooHoo (old)

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WTF

***** ******** * ****** ******, I am but now I am going to be blasé about it!!! At least Cats and Kittens and minimal techno with bobbing kittens heads are cool.

Spectacular Mammatus Clouds

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I Wanna Be Your Dog

It seems that "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Iggy & the Stooges has achieved placement in that special realm of recorded sound we know as "The Popular Standard". Click here to download many, many cover versions of the classic room-shaker.

Monkey Hear, Monkey Count

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John Cage's Xbox

Pitchfork: "Why isn't the interactive, three-dimensional world of the game console more attractive to today's laptop composers, soundscape artists, and sound installation designers?"

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Skeletal Systems

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Kitten War

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Fast Film

Virgil Widrich's extraordinary, award-winning animation is a technical masterpiece. Hundreds of great movie moments are distilled into 14 minutes of animated magic by the director's clever use of technology (and a photocopier).

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Unique Furniture

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Radio Astronomy

The collaboration between Windward Community College Radio Observatory, Nasa's Radio Jove Network and the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre makes it possible for you to listen in real time to the sounds generated by such astronomical phenomena as planet Jupiter and its interactions with its moons, radiation from the sun, activity from far-off pulsars, meteor trails ect.

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Very Large Things

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No Wave Archive

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Shaw Brothers Posters

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Unusual cards

Unusual Cards is a large selection of amazing blank greeting cards featuring the collage art of Francesca Berrini.

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Famous Feet

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100% Blank Keyboard

Particularly annoying if you can't remember where `¬ is!!!!


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Space Weather

Auroras in Nebraska? California? Arizona? Northern Lights rippled across the United States during an intense geomagnetic storm. The display was triggered by a solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting Earth's magnetic field. So much for the quiet sun.

You can also check on sun spots, corona holes and near earth asteroids if you are so inclined.
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Periscope Pitures

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Japanese Figurines

This is kinda weird. Not really sure what to make of this.


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Foundphotos

What it would be like to look at random photo albums.





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Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

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Ubu Fluxus

37 Short Fluxus Films (1962 - 1970) Dating from the sixties and compiled by George Maciunas (1931-1978, founder of Fluxus), UbuWeb is pleased to present 37 short films ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes in length. These films (some of which were meant to be screened as continuous loops) were shown as part of the events and happenings of the New York avant-garde. Films by Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, George Maciunas, Chieko Shiomi, John Cavanaugh, James Riddle, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Pieter Vanderbiek, Joe Jones, Eric Anderson, Jeff Perkins, Wolf Vostell, Albert Fine, George Landow, Paul Sharits, John Cale, Peter Kennedy, Mike Parr, Ben Vautier. Presented here in MPEG format.

Plus alot more..

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Danceteria Flyers

In the pantheon of NYC nightclubs, Danceteria was known for dominating the early 80s downtown scene with a unique brand of performance and multimedia experimentation and was frequented by post-punks, poets, rockers, rapppers, Rastas, art stars, drags, suits, and more. Viva Haoui Montaug and No Entiendes!

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Science Photo

Science Photo Library, the leading provider of science images.

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Last Supper

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Cat Drummer

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10 x 10

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

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Sciam Feel Ashamed

This article is a couple of months old, but it is still worth a read.

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Bill Cosby Murderer

Bill Cosby, pudding, kill, yes

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ZOO

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a one stop site for all the fantastic animal creations made by the people of b3ta.

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Voodoo Knife Rack

If I had a list of the best knife racks which depict human forms pierced by your knife collection in many strategic locations, this would be at the top.

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Yo La Breakout

To paraphrase matador, this is a primitive Yo La Tengo video game. Click the link below if you are a geek.

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Crazy Japanese Fold

I use this, and so will you.

http://gprime.net/video.php/crazyfold

Sonic Youth and Hilary Clinton

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s 2005 spring gala dinner and art auction will honor Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, John and Dan Tishman of Tishman Construction, builders of the original World Trade Center and new Freedom Tower, and musicians Sonic Youth. Each will be individually recognized for their outstanding contributions and ongoing efforts to revitalize Lower Manhattan as well as their commitment to downtown New York City’s arts and culture.

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Fred Tomaselli

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Tomaselli's work combines biological illustrations, actual plants, paint and drugs in patterns and imagery that refer simultaneously to a variety of eastern and western art practices. These real items appear beneath a veneer of meticulously applied resin that recall the perfect surface of Oriental lacquer boxes, but with a satin finish

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Build a Bush

This is hilarous and will keep you entertained for at least 5 minutes.

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