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Archive for February 2007

Katamari Damacy is a 3D Japanese Video Game published under Namco.  A very stylsh and strategic game.
The game starts with a magical boll called a katamari. You have to roll this ball around various locations, collecting increasingly larger objects, ranging from thumbtacks to schoolchildren to mountains, until the ball has grown large enough to become a star. Game required [...]

Wonderful Optical illusions

Posted by: usmanahmad on: February 13, 2007

If you watch the below images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr.Angry is on the left, and Mrs.Calm is on the right.
Get up from your seat, and move back 12 feet, and PRESTO!! They switch places!!
 

 
 
This illusion was created by Phillippe G.Schyns and Aude Oliva of the Univ. of Glasgow.
This proves [...]

The Phenomenal Power of the Human Mind

Posted by: usmanahmad on: February 13, 2007

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset [...]


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    I thought the ancient proverb that would come in handy for our inaugural Best Book Covers of the Year poll would be "Don't judge a book by its cover," but the one I keep thinking of instead is "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Starting with the nearly unanimous disgruntlement our slate of nominees were met with, followed by som […]
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