http://btr0xw.rz.uni-bayreuth.de/cjackson/escher/
A galery of Escher pictures. He drew lots of twisted optical illusion sort of pictures. Very cool.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml And lots of them. Not joke riddles, but puzzles and mind games, fun for lateral thinkers. No answers unfortunately…

Here’s a fascinating story about a demonstration of a human hive mind at work. Once you’ve read the first page or two of that and started to get bored, you gan go have a play with the collective conscious which works better in IE but still functions in netscape 4. The collective conscious is [...]

Anyone who has ever been out with a girl who is his partner, will know that chicks will prefer to put stuff in your pockets over carrying a bag. Smokes, keys, ID, even their purses seem to belong in their guy’s pockets. This may seem at first to be a convenience/elegance thing – [...]

I’m torn by this movie. I hate to see the victory of the popular over the nerdy, but I love to see the common people defeat the snobby intellectuals, and this has both. I also don’t mind seeing the Mac beat the PC, more about that later. The hero (?!) is bimbo as, but scams [...]

My sister Jacq is down, with Martina, the Italian exchange student who is staying with them. Monique thought it would be fun to take them to Vic Market between the plane arriving and me taking them to the Storm match.
They thought it was so great, that we all got to go again today. [...]

This is a collection of three novellae set in the next century or so. Amongst other things, deep space mining in the asteroid belt is common, and any part of the body is transplantable, including arms, legs and whatever. Gil is an agent of ARM, a section of the United Nations government which specialises in [...]

I have a friend who is going through some horrors at the moment. This week has been particularly bad, and he has been laying pretty low, so I SMSd him to make sure he isn’t dead – he’s bipolar, but at the moment he’s just plain depressed, so first hand I know to be worried [...]

You know how cartoon doors can be carried anywhere and placed against a wall or other flat surface to create a working door? Science should be investigating this, I can see a lot of useful implementations.
Surgery would be an excellent place for this. Imagine a little door that could be placed over the [...]

Reality TV taken to an extreme, where the subject of the show is completely unaware that he is on TV. His whole life from birth to now has been manufactured, he lives on an artificial island where he is trapped by his fear of water.
Jim Carrey usually annoys me, but in this he wasn’t too [...]