‘Impossible motion’ trick wins Illusion Contest - physics-math - 11 May 2010 - New Scientist
Don’t believe your eyes.

The Best Visual illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier visual illusion research community.
As reported in New Scientist, this year’s winner was Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji [...]

Rather than miss out on day’s skiing in Habuka, we decided to visit the Jigokokudani Snow Monkey Park as a detour on our trip back to Tokyo on the last day of our holiday - needing to still make the strict deadline for the 8:25pm Jetstar flight.
Summary
The monkey onsen is a 4 hour detour [...]

When you need to tell someone about your YouTube creation, you can send a link - but it is cool to have the video ‘embedded’ in your email. The message will then display the ‘poster image’ of your video, and allow the recipient to just to click ‘play’.

Apple Mail does not normally allow you to [...]

Upgrading to Snow Leopard installs a new version of php.(5.3.0)
The php.ini file, which should be at /etc/php.ini, will need to be created.
You do this by editing /etc/php.ini.default, and renaming it to php.ini.
The changes required are
1) add the correct time zone,
1234[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone ="Australia/Sydney"
2) change the three references [...]

How can you get your Wordpress homepage to display a thumbnail image along with the summary of each recent article on the ‘home page’ of the site, but a full size image when the article is displayed on its own single page.