hope you have a totally sweet year.
/ninja will continue to bring you miscellaneous tidbits and stuff that are awesome.
and as such, here is a wave that is claimed to be 100 ft, while the youtube comments are yelling 50 or so feet, i guess it’s somewhere in between — this here be a huge fucking wave.
The influence of culture and environment can have an effect on our visual perception.This theory was first explored by Robert Laws, a Scottish missionary working in Malawi, Africa, during the late 1800’s. Take a look at the picture below. What you see will largely depend on where you live in the world.After you have examined the picture, scroll down for a more detailed explanation.
What is above the woman’s head? When scientists showed a similar sketch to people from East Africa, nearly all the participants in the experiment said she was balancing a box or metal can on her head.
In a culture containing few angular visual cues, the family is seen sitting under a tree. Westerners, on the other hand, are accustomed to the corners and boxlike shapes of architecture. They are more likely to place the family indoors and to interpret the rectangle above the woman’s head as a window through which shrubbery can be seen.
after reading i looked again and yeah, i could see that thing at the back as a tree and not the corner of a room, and the window as a box on that womans head.
i like those kinds of things.. it clearly demonstrates that what we see is just our brain trying to make since out of things - based on what it knows already; makes you wonder what reality really looks like.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
aw man you should have been there.
luckily the brilliant onion news network brings a report right from the street where all the action is happening.
Modesto, CA residents turned out for the city’s annual Ninja Parade, where no ninjas were seen for the 30th year in a row.
see you next year!
i bring you workfriendly , a service that brings your productivity down and your ninja skills up.
just enter your favorite website into the bar and you get yourself a window that looks just like an office 2003 document with your sites text (only) in it.too bad you can’t see ’some’ images but it does show youtube links.
so -
1. read a workfriendly web site
2. ninja click the boss key
3. ???
4. profit.
these impressive construction projects are worth another look at the super rich emirate of dubai, who are still very busy building.
yea.
as of 24 october 2007,
this colossal building is already the world’s current tallest freestanding structure on land, rising 585.7 m (1,922 ft).When completed, it is planned to rise over 800 m (2,625 ft).
Burj Dubai has been designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that will include 30,000 homes, nine hotels such as the Burj Dubai Lake Hotel & Serviced Apartments, 0.03 km² (0.01 sq mi) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 0.12 km² (0.05 sq mi) man-made Burj Dubai Lake. Burj Dubai will cost US$ 800 million to build and the entire 2 km² (0.77 sq mi) development will cost around US$ 20 billion.
The silvery glass-sheathed concrete building will give the title of Earth’s tallest free-standing structure to the Middle East — a title not held by the region since 1311 AD when Lincoln Cathedral in England surpassed the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which had held the title for almost four millennia.
next up -
check out the difference between dubai in the year 1991 and 2005. amazing.
(click to enlarge)
a beautiful nightshot :
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