I wasn’t going to post this one, but I can’t get it out of my head. In the image below, the squares marked A and B are the same shade of gray. The image is from Edward H. Adelson at MIT, and you can find my original source here. More details (proof, etc) on Adelson’s site here, which includes this explanation: The visual system needs to determine...

This piece from Niklas Roy made me laugh out loud: Built with Processing and AVR-GCC. (Thanks to Golan, who pointed out this link.)

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Download it here. This is the third alpha release as we head toward 2.0. There are many significant changes in 2.0, so be sure to read up on them. If you find problems, please file a report so that we can fix them. The big changes since 2.0a2: Several Android fixes to handle recent SDK changes by Google. For anyone using Android, you’ll need to install...