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Angry or Calm?

Another wonderful optical illusion.

If you watch the above 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 that we may not be seeing what's actually there, all the time!

Optical illusion

This is one of the best optical illusions I have ever seen.

Stare at the "+" sign in the center and you see a moving green dot.

Continue staring at the "+" sign in the center and slowly the pink dots disappear.

Wonder how the brain makes up something that is not there.

via kiruba

Big Ad

I usually hate all kinds of beer ads. This one is an exception. Check it out...

:::CARLTON UNITED BIG AD:::

Coool goooogle

Google at its best ever... Google Earth is ADDICTIVE. Adjusting tilt is just a little too much. It feels like playing a video game with an unlimited terrain.

SuDoku

Check out these cool new puzzles, called SuDoku. The idea is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

This one is quite easy. Here is one, that is a little more difficult. Some links that have a lot of these puzzles...

Daily SuDoku
SuDoku at Times
SuDoku at The Hindu
SuDoku Fun
SuDoku Master

Find many more SuDOku sites through Google.

Cool wedding

A wedding on Mount Everest

Now, that is the coolest place to get married. Congratulations and best wishes to the newlyweds.

Water on Mars

The latest news about Mars:

Found: Water on Mars

Who owns the fish? -- Solution

On a street there are 5 houses painted with 5 different colors. Occupant of each house has a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigarettes and keeps a different pet.

THE QUESTION : WHO OWNS THE FISH?

Hints
1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede has a dog
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The Green house is on the left (adjacent) of the White house
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall has birds
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhills
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who has cats
11. The man who has horses lives next do the man who smokes Dunhills
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lies next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water

There is a lot of information to figure it out correctly. I'll post my solution (the right one, of course!) on Friday.

taken from surendra

Update: Many of you, who commented or emailed, got it right. Sujit, Leena and Simi got it right. Congratulations! You win a high resolution photo to put on your PC as background. Pick any one from my photoblog and I'll send you a high res version of it.

Medhavi and Deven claim that they have the right answer. But, didn't send it to me. Anyway, they are welcome to ask for the prize too.

Here is the solution as promised. Click on the link below to view it.

The German man owns the fish.

Who owns the fish?

On a street there are 5 houses painted with 5 different colors. Occupant of each house has a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, smokes a different brand of cigarettes and keeps a different pet.

THE QUESTION : WHO OWNS THE FISH?

Hints
1. The Brit lives in a red house
2. The Swede has a dog
3. The Dane drinks tea
4. The Green house is on the left (adjacent) of the White house
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall has birds
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhills
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who has cats
11. The man who has horses lives next do the man who smokes Dunhills
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lies next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water

There is a lot of information to figure it out correctly. I'll post my solution (the right one, of course!) on Friday.

taken from surendra

Optical Illusion

Here is one of the coolest optical illusions that I have ever seen. It comes from Dr. Edward Adleson of MIT. There are more illusions on his website.

The squares named 'A' and 'B' are of the same color. Click on the link below to see an explanation.

The grey bars in the picture are of the same color. It is obvious from the places where the bars overlap with the squares 'A' and 'B', that the squares and the bars are of the identical shade of grey. If you still don't believe this, download the image, open it with your favorite image processing software and check the values for the color properties that the software shows. They are the same: '120, 120, 120'.

Via Prashant Mullick

Cog

Check out this new Honda Accord ad released in EU. It is really really coool. It took 606 takes to make the 2 minute shoot and there are no CGI tricks.