Category: Quickhit

[A mind blowing optical illusion](http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/08/color-tile-optical-i.html). A really good example of just how much is going on in our brains. Most photographers know this already, but the brain and the eyes aren’t just a camera – they do a *lot* of processing.

[25 skills every man should know](http://men.msn.com/articlepm.aspx?cp-documentid=5741230&GT1=10716). Sexism apart, of course. I can do ten out of twenty-five…

[How to wrap a present properly](http://www.wikihow.com/Wrap-a-Present). My personal method is a little simpler: 1. Pay someone else to wrap it for you.

[Why not catch the London to Sydney bus](http://www.ozbus.co.uk/). Twelve weeks, $9000. Of course, the bus will be late and then three will turn up at once.

[An english to R2 droid translator](http://www.r2d2translator.com/). Please let me know if you find any plausible actual use for this…

[A Hello Kitty rifle](http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15—evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx). It’s hard to imagine why you would mix an icon of such unending evil with a rifle…

[Comic books published by the New York Fed](http://www.ny.frb.org/publications/result.cfm?comics=1). Clearly the Australian Budget should follow this example.

[Tour the lakes district with iPod in hand](http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2007/oct/31/travelnews.news?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront). Interesting idea, but I hope your walking pace matches Wainwright’s.

[A picture frame with a Wi-Fi receiver and its own email address](http://gizmodo.com/336220/lightning-round-estarling-picture-frame-hits-a-home-run-on-third-attempt). I think the killer app here is grandparents – just set one of these up in their home, and send through the pictures as you take them.

[An in-car sandwich maker](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/12/11/road-pro-incar-sandw.html). I suspect the people trying to write a parody of consumer society 40 years ago would have looked at this as a step too far.