Mike Corso’s Posthaven

Check out the latest from the illusionist extraordinaire Brusspup. Here, he demonstrates that looks can be deceiving:

 

  

 

The technique is called anamorphosis -- the image is distorted and elongated so that it appears natural from a certain angle.  

Brusspup adds to the illusion by placing the photo-realistic images alongside every day objects and then using video to reveal the perspective change in real time. A very cool video.

Please see it and rate it here on 12/2. After 12/2, find it in the Cool Site of the Day archive.

See more of Brusspup's illusions on his Youtube channel.

Need to rent a car and don't want to overpay? LiveCarHire searches 500+ car rental companies at 30,000 locations in 174 countries to give you the largest selection of competitive car rental rates from the top car rental companies worldwide. 

In addition to the standard worldwide Airport Search, the visitor can imap display cities, train stations, ports, areas or street address for the nearest available car hire deals. Pretty cool.

Here is an example of the search map display, comparing all available car hire/rentals, with each search having the imap zoom facility to widen or narrow the search area:

USA - Los Angeles Downtown

There is also a free iphone app that provides exactly the same Live Car Hire service on ipad, iphone and ipod. 

OK, this is one of the more bizarre sites I've featured on Cool Site of the Day. On barcode art you can create a barcode of...yourself.

Please see it and rate it here on 11/30. After 11/30, find it in the Cool Site of the Day archive.

Learned about Free The Children and the organization's We Day from 60 Minutes Sunday night. Share this one far and wide...and far and wider again. SO inspiring and so GOOD.

 

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powers my Hobie Cat and energy that powered the first explorations of the world. This map shows you the delicate, real-time tracery of wind flowing over the US.

See it and rate it here. After 11/28, find it in our archive

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