More Illusions!

From Daypop comes word of a cool new batch of optical illusions: The latest works.

Care and Feeding of the Nature Spirits in Your Computer

From the Spring 2003 issue of New Witch magazine, courtesy of Popular Science, courtesy of Janus: The real reason your computer keeps crashing.

Thanks to Ymatt, too, for the nice Houdini image for the new category icon.

Optical Illusions

From Daypop comes word of this really fun (if slightly nauseating) optical illusion: raareffect.jpg. The circles aren't actually moving, you see.

More fun turned up in a few second's Googling: Akiyoshi's illusion pages and optillusions.com.

Sartwell Reviews 'Shattering Illusions'

Art-school philosophy prof and generally fun smart-ass Crispin Sartwell has a review of Jamy Ian Swiss' Shattering Illusions: Essays on the Ethics, History, and Presentation of Magic in today's LA Times book reviews: Entertaining deception. It actually sounds like a pretty cool book; maybe I'll pick it up when I finish The Illuminatus! Trilogy, which just arrived today.

Pioneer 10 Makeover

Edward Tufte is cool: Pioneer space plaque redesign.