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Cory Doctorow at 2:38 pm • 
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Here's a great optical illusion (click above to see the animation) -- when you blink fast, beautiful mandalas emerge.
Blink Fast (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Maggie Koerth-Baker at 7:40 am • •
As Matt Lynley put it, "Meanwhile, in space ..."
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Cory Doctorow at 8:04 am • •
Johan Vinet made this inspired login-screen for a notional, never-was 16-bit Calvin and Hobbes game. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Rob Beschizza at 10:57 am • •
"GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year," reports the NY Daily News, in an article that Rich Kyanka points out is illustrated by JPGs of popular GIFs.
Here I present you with a splendid actual GIF from DVDP; put on the "apocalyptic rave" music that the BBC plays in the background of news broadcasts to make you anxious, then stare at it until 2013.
Cory Doctorow at 8:17 am • •
Toronto mayor Rob Ford is a dick. He rips out bike lanes. Violates municipal conflict of interest rules by participating in votes to censure him for unethical fundraising. Closed a library and threatened others Skips council meetings to coach high school football (to which he diverts city resources), then hijacks a city bus to drive his team around. Calls the cops in a panic when journalists come to his house to ask him questions, and boycotts the most-read paper in the country because of their investigative reporting on him, and freaks out they sent out a reporter to check on reports that he was thinking of annexing some public land near his home.
He's ill-spoken, absurd, and hateful. In short, he is a laughable bumblefuck.
For evidence, I present to you this animated GIF of Mayor Laughable Bumblefuck demonstrating his governance style to the world.
(Thanks to Dave Nickle for fact-checking my ass!)
Rob Beschizza at 7:59 am • •
Dain Fagerholm creates animated GIF art similar to traditional stereo 3D photos.
Pictured here is Daydreamer. Other favorites of mine include Four creatures in a room and "Seven Headed Creature".
Dain's latest, Creature in Cube with Gem looks anagyphic as well as stereoscopic (but I'm not sure if it is)! [via Illusion 360]
