Bird’s-Eye: A wonderful set of enjoyable ways to waste time entertain yourself online: another panorama you can explore, only this one is both 3-D and based on an M.C. Escher world that’s seriously non-Euclidian. Then see if you can outsmart Akinator: in twenty questions he’ll identify the fictional (or non-fictional) character you’re thinking of. So far he’s got a 4–0 advantage over your editor, but your mileage may vary. And if you get depressed about how smart computers are, reassure yourself with a visit to funny translator, which takes your phrase and translates it through multiple languages, arriving back at English with something almost but not completely unlike what you left with.
* MC Escher Panorama – Boing Boing
Here’s Nico Roig’s interactive panorama, made by stitching together the edges of MC Escher’s “Relativity” so that they flow psychedelically into one another in a kind of sphere. Be sure to
1. go fullscreen (button top left) 2. right-click on the image to change the projection. try “little planet” for ultra trippiness ☺
