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Morning Cup of Links: Winning Illusions
by Miss Cellania - May 14, 2009 - 4:34 AM
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The winners of the annual World’s Best Illusions competition have been announced. The top three are posted for your edification and amazement.
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Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River and everyone escaped OK, but how did they get that plane out of the water? One photographer recorded the process for posterity.
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Star Trek or. Star Wars? Warning: Spoilers. Hollywood should know by now what we like to see.
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Real life spy gadgets are every bit as good as something from a comic book. And they get smaller and more affordable all the time.
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Dan Coulter managed to get Moby Dick in its entirety on Twitter. It took 12,849 Tweets over nine months, but it is complete. (via Boing Boing)
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Carousel is a video of one still scene, but what a scene it is! If you didn’t hate clowns already, you will now. (via Everlasting Blort)
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Six Phantom Phenomena. Can you trust your senses when you feel things that you know aren’t there?

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Comments (3)

  1. In the illusions link, in the two picture illusion, I have to wonder if our perception is filtered by the fact that many women wear makeup which does enhance their features. I wonder if the same two pictures were shown to someone in whose culture the women do not wear makeup (or better the men do wear make up) enhance their features would they “see” the same thing?

    posted by Cajun2core on 5-14-2009 at 10:37 am

  2. To me, the two pictures were the same person until I read the description but I mostly judge the sexes based on facial structure (more soft for women, harder angles for men) than dark and light areas of the face.

    I loved the video thing, very interesting.

    posted by Sarah in CA on 5-14-2009 at 10:46 am

  3. That curve ball illusion was pretty awesome. When I first saw it I really thought the ball was moving to the side.

    The red dove illusion was barely there for me. It didn’t seem to that impressive.

    posted by JD on 5-14-2009 at 1:56 pm

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