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Optical illusions

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This is going to be my last post for a couple of weeks as I'm off to do some travelling. Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena by Michael Back is an interesting website full of some really trippy optical illusions. Guaranteed to make your head spin in next to no time. Enjoy Nac If you look around in the below figure you will notice the appearance and disappearance of black dots at the crossings.

Woooooooooooooo

How's this for some impressive ball skills! Makes you wanna go woooooooooooooooo.

Matrix Ping Pong

Fancy a bit of ping pong action matrix style....?

Fight Club

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Fight Club with a difference, this time a bollywood remake of it with all your usual song and dance numbers. I can't wait to see this one.... More info about it here with various trailers and not forgetting the official website.

Jet Set Willy

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Way back in the mists of time before the Internet existed I grew up on a cute little personal computer about the size of a paperback book with rubber keys. It was the beloved Sinclair ZX Spectrum , it had a whole 48K of memory and you would load in software from a cassette tape (assuming you were lucky enough for the game to load without the dreaded tape loading error). I spent hours on this computer doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things with it, but I'll have to admit I did enjoy playing games on, especially one of my favourite games of all time. Jet Set Willy I suppose you could describe it as a super mario type game where you had to collect lots of discarded glasses and bottles from various rooms in a mansion. The original version and a spectrum emulator you can download from worldofspectrum.org . I've recently discovered a PC port of Jet Set Willy which is pretty fab, which you can download from retrospec . There are lots of other classic games on this site that hav

The moon is made of cheese!

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Following on from an earlier post where I linked to the google maps and google sightseeing sites. It looks like the folks at google have discovered the moon is made from cheese. Don't believe me? Check out Google moon Then zoom in as much as a possible and voila evidence the moon is made from cheese! ;)

Diesel in water at Exeter

"People living in parts of Exeter are being warned not to drink their tap water after diesel got into supplies." How am I going to get a cup of tea from work today? Doh! More info from the BBC.

Play

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Here's something to keep you entertained for a few minutes, nice and completely pointless. Play If you enjoyed Play, why not check out more of the same at Play more

Suits you sir

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How's this for a fine bit of digital attire, provided courtesy of Stortroopers . Oh suits you!