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Standards schmandards

Licorne is a set of four photos taken on August 24th 1970, depicting French nuclear bomb testing. I didn’t realise they look so much like mushrooms, or that they lift off like that. [via] (Now defunct.)

Simple questions get simple answers: Is it Christmas? I love the way they’ve got an RSS feed for it.

When I was working in an office last year, one of the ‘net memes that stuck around was Lolcats. These are odd pictures of cats (usually highly saccharine), with bizarre captions added, and I found that although they can be quite funny, once you’ve seen a couple (of dozen) you’ve seen ‘em all. This one came to my attention recently though, reminded me of laughing at them last year.
BTW, look at the comments on that page – all written in the same style as the captions.

One day, when I’m super-rich, I’m going to have my house set up with Kaleidescape gear.

Boomshine, a cute little flash game. Found it quite difficult toward the end.

I don’t want to post every optical illusion I find online, but this one is very cool: is the animated dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? Which way you see it apparently determines whether your brain is dominated by the left side or the right side. At first I saw it spinning clockwise, but didn’t have much difficulty in making it go the other way.

Incredible photoblog entitled Stuck In Customs, showcasing some stunning travel photography. Notably, requires widescreen (or some higher res), as title logo is: 1,230px × 185px.

The Onion: not funny because it’s true. See also for reference.

Using a tilt-shift lens is a way of taking pictures of miniature scenes (like a model railway for instance). In this group we fake this by taking photos of real-life scenes, then adjusting the photo in Photoshop (or whatever) and de-focus parts of the scene to make it look like a miniature.

These images are so cool!