• Camouflage photos that are just amazing. Check out the "steps" one in particular.
• Another optical illusion: the circles aren't moving...or are they?
• Anyone who went to Ohio University knows Aethelred Eldridge. Those who weren't lucky (or bonkers) enough to take his class can at least hear him read Blake aloud. (Swiped from ookee, fellow OU alumni.)

The competition for the new "seven wonders of the world" has been narrowed down to 21 finalists. Discuss.

Another drive-in theatre is closing; this one is near us in Oxford.

And finally, for those of us who love reading stories written by kids (and trying to figure out how their minds work), there's a blog for us: Children of the Future. The future sounds pretty surreal so far.