A touch of magic on your iPod.
If like me your permanently attached to one of Apples lovely little devices then you might like to check out a few of the fun magic apps that have sprung up. Whilst they are certainly not pro standard tricks if you get them down right they can be a bit of fun and free too – although note to self: Don’t try to impress Derren Brown with them if you don’t want to look a cretin.
TUAW is an Apple fanboy site – OK I’m guilty of going there at least once a month – but it has the best rundown of all the latest tricks and gags available for the little tiny objects of joy. Have fun and if you think we’ve missed any do post a link here.
Killdozer – guy goes nuts in armour plated bulldozer, crushes town.
This is old from 2004 and I stumbled across it and it made me think that whilst this guy was nuts, he clearly made his mark on history in a truly unique way. What do you think it was that made me think “Go on lad!”…?
BNP uses Polish Spitfire in anti-immigration poster
In a way I like the BNP.. no really – they are a prime example for all of us to see just what happens when really stupid people get together in groups, try desperately to form ideas and then attempt to bring the buffoonery to fruition and of course fail. As the Telegraph reports:
The party’s 2009 European Elections poster shows a nostalgic picture of a Second World War fighter plane under the slogan “Battle for Britain”. But RAF history experts have identified the iconic Romeo Foxtrot Delta Plane as belonging not to Britons but to a group of Polish pilots instead.
The plane was actually flown by the celebrated 303 Squadron of the RAF – made up of Polish airmen rescued from France shortly before Nazi occupation.
All together now DOH!!!
Most Britons have lied about the books they read
Apparently your all a bunch of lying gits! Shame on you. 65% of people screened in a recent survey blatantly fibbed about reading the following books:
Those who lied have claimed to have read:
1. 1984 - George Orwell (42 percent)
2. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (31)
3. Ulysses – James Joyce (25)
4. The Bible (24)
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16)
6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15)
7. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie (14)
8. In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9)
9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6)
10. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (6)
11. Ultimate Shaving Tips - Derren Brown(2)
Why you would lie about reading the Obama book I don’t know. I have of course read all these books several times in 4 different languages – at the same time. Honestly!
Strange and rare cloud formation
The clouds were observed on June 18th last year from a Japan Coast Guard aircraft just off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido.
Turn your loved-ones’ ashes into jewellery
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A MANSFIELD funeral firm is offering clients the opportunity to have their loved ones’ cremated ashes turned into jewellery. Bosses at AW Lymn, based on Chesterfield Road South, will be adding the service to their new brochure and their funeral arrangers will be presenting it to clients.
The revolutionary process –– developed by East Midlands engineer Nick Cranham –– uses a portion of cremated ashes fixed in a clear hard polymer, which gives the attractive appearance of polished granite. This forms the centrepiece of an item of jewellery which can be either a brooch, pendant or cuff links and can also be used to make picture frames.
Mirrors that you will flip (will flip you) over
Andrew Hicks used computer algorithms to generate the mirror’s bizarre surface, which curves and bends in different directions. The curves direct rays from an object across the mirror’s face before sending them back to the viewer, flipping the conventional mirror image.
(Via Philebrity. Image by Andrew Hicks.)
Visual illusion could help prevent falls
Visual illusions are not only fun, they also help show how the brain works by exploiting its shortcomings. But what about using visual illusions for practical benefit? By making a step look taller than it really is, David Elliott and colleagues have demonstrated a way of doing just that.
Trips on steps are nasty for anyone, but for the elderly they can be fatal. Two thousand elderly people die in the UK every year following a fall, with the majority of these falls happening on stairs.
Elliott’s team asked twenty-one students to judge the height of two steps, one of which was decorated with horizontal bars on its leading face, thus making it look shorter; the other was decorated with vertical bars, thus making it look taller (the right-hand step on the image above). Both steps were actually the same height. Asked to estimate the height of the steps, the students guessed the height of the vertically decorated step to be just over 5 mm higher than the other step.
