OT: Things we find freaking neat but no place to post

[KennyBanyeah]

It's a little tykes play house

From the outside I thought it was probably Paris Hilton's dog's house.

I don't mind the idea though. Not sure I'm crazy about living in DC... but that's another matter.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Okay, anyone near DC... MOVE AWAY FROM THERE NOW. We're gonna nuke it from orbit.

200 square foot homes prop up in DC as aspiring homeowners look for their piece of the American dream after the housing crisis | Mail Online

50 Grand here will buy you a 2 bedroom rancher on a quarter acre and 1 car garage. And you won't need cover fire when walking out to get the paper in the morning.

Just looking at those houses made my stomach tighten up. I'm not hugely claustrophobic, but I am 6'5 and hate human interaction... that looks like a freaking nightmare to me.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

Maybe we should make our politicians live in those houses, and they are only allowed to leave congress when they actually get things done.

 

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[sbb122]

Jeter has been working out with OV... :ss:

 

[Darkstone42]

You know, because there's always been so much concern about his work ethic in the past, and this has nothing at all to do with him being nearly forty and injured... He's just lazy.

 

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[evolver115]

For children of the 60's and 70's, or if you just like Led Zeppelin:

Led Zeppelin to appear on 'Letterman' on Monday night - latimes.com

 

[puckhead]

thanks for the heads up

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Meh. High quality prints, but the illusion is pretty standard. This is much more impressive IMO:


I built one for my classroom years ago. It's unbelievable. Actually mindblowing. The effect is just as good, if not better, in person.

So, is it flat and just a trick of the paper?

 

[forty_three]

Video: Dinosaur Jr plays with members of The Smiths, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Replacements | slicing up eyeballs // 80s alternative music, college rock, indie

J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr AND Johhny Marr doing a cover o "Boy with a thorn in his side"??

I think I just had a alt rock-gasm. Had I known this was happening, I would have gone to NYC.

 

[mattola]

Shit just got real
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[Dacks]

So, is it flat and just a trick of the paper?

It's a hollowman effect. Really cool. Basically you build this 3D dragon out of paper, folding and taping parts together. But the head is inverted - instead of a 3D popping outwards with the snout as the closest point to the viewer, in colapses inwards with the snout as the furthest point from the viewer.

Video explanation:


Viewed in good lighting, and with one eye closed, your mind assumes it's a normally shaped object. As you move, what you're seeing changes, and your mind formulates that as the dragon moving it's head. It's a really great effect. I built one, and even knowing the illusion, I could turn it on and off in my head.

Here's the printout if you want to make one:

http://rhotshen.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/red_dragon.jpg

 

[forty_three]

Walmart Called, Your Family Christmas Photos are in? - 100.7 Jack FM San Diego Radio & DSC- sandiegojack

 

[Dacks]

Man proposes using Star Wars Lego:

 

[elocomotive]

This is awesome. Now I can totally ask chicks if they want to sleep with a guy who has a body like Derek Jeter.

 

[Slimpikins]

This is awesome. Now I can totally ask chicks if they want to sleep with a guy who has a body like Derek Jeter.

Ha ha, that was good. I'm going to use that.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

It's a hollowman effect. Really cool. Basically you build this 3D dragon out of paper, folding and taping parts together. But the head is inverted - instead of a 3D popping outwards with the snout as the closest point to the viewer, in colapses inwards with the snout as the furthest point from the viewer.

Video explanation:


Viewed in good lighting, and with one eye closed, your mind assumes it's a normally shaped object. As you move, what you're seeing changes, and your mind formulates that as the dragon moving it's head. It's a really great effect. I built one, and even knowing the illusion, I could turn it on and off in my head.

Here's the printout if you want to make one:

http://rhotshen.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/red_dragon.jpg

Must make for girlfriend for Christmas.....or maybe something else.....

 

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