Friday, September 24, 2004
Dancing almond optical illusion. Here's a nice optical illusion: a bunch of almond-looking things arranged in a particular pattern appear to undulate. Akiyoshi Kitaoka, the creator of this image, has a lot of other optical illusions, which are well worth checking out. 
Also, don't miss the confounding checkershadow illusion.
[via Boing Boing 7/12/2004]  
 
Think those little plastic models you build are art? Ha.  [Fark 6/13/2004]
Young C. Park of Hawaii is a recently retired dentist who put his skills in working with his hands and in forming metal to a new use. The scratch-built 1/16 scale all aluminum Corsair is a very ambitious model. The wing root view (right) shows access into the wing as well into the cockpit with cutaway panels removed. Using tweezers, the controls can be moved. All cables and linkages are in place to work the wing control surfaces as well. Throttle controls run through tubes in the fuselage. Hydraulic lines can be seen inside the wing. Inside the wing, 50-caliber machine guns nest in the structure along with boxes of ammo to feed them. (Internet Craftmanship Museum)  
 
Pepsi Mars Rover adPepsi Mars Rover Ad. Soft drink maker Pepsi have taken notice of the recent Mars craze and produced a TV spot about a scientist monitoring a Mars rover's travels, who becomes so engrossed in his Diet Pepsi, that he misses a bunch of Martians ... [Martian Soil 3/2/2004]  
 
.Net On Lego Mindstorm: The University of Potsdam has a project to develop a .NET VM for the Lego Mindstorms system. While the thought of using .Net to program Lego Mindstorms may not be palatable, having a mainstream dev environment sure is.  [Slashdot 9/12/2004]  
 

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