From this week’s selection at PostSecret: Incidentally, Rich Fields, not Bob Barker, says “Come on down!” But no harm done. I look forward to few site updates as much as PostSecret. People send in anonymous postcards with secrets on them, and a couple dozen or so new ones appear every Sunday. Sometimes the secrets are … Read more
Carbon offsets have been a marvelous tonic for those concerned about the environmental impact of their lifestyles. Have you ever wished for that same flexibility in how you treat others? Well, it’s here! Introducing Asshole Offsets! That’s right! Asshole Offsets give you the full freedom to be yourself. What carbon offsets do for your Chevy … Read more
When you look at something, how badly does your brain want to establish a lighting vector? Very, very badly, as the Adelson checker-shadow illusion demonstrates: Dr. Edward H. Adelson is a professor at MIT, and came up with this illusion 12 years ago (so it’s been around a while, but it’s so uncanny I find … Read more