Where is the ball?

Got another great vid from a friend of mine yesterday. Even though you may think: “What is a magic trick doing on an optical illusions dedicated website”, you’ll quickly change your mind after the clip has ended.

But wait! There is more to it then you probably noticed at first. Be sure to replay the video couple of times, and each time concentrate on another background figure. Are the wooden mannequin, Rubik’s Cube, radio and whole bunch of other items lined as you originally presumed?

Even though magic tricks and optical illusions have whole lot in common, you’ll certainly agree that Chop Cups video has much more to do with illusions, than magicians and tricks. This has to be one of my favorite clips of all times. Btw, it gives me a great pleasure observing the “Top 10 Optical Illusions” chart in our sidebar. It’s like watching a live-growing organism, providing me with real-time feedback of what kind of material my audience really appreciates. Apart from ratings, comments and “top 10 illusions”, I’m thinking of engaging you guys even further. More stuff coming soon!

Move the Glass from the Tray

Author of this optical illusion is G. Sarcone from Archimedes Lab. Can you find a way to completely remove one of the glasses from this blue tray, while minimizing your effort? Before I show you the solution (after the jump), I’d like to share some site news with you. Am not sure what is happening, but there are some strange circulations present this week. First thing I noticed is that our RSS subscriber number started to go up rather insanely. You can see this in my sidebar.

On Tuesday it showed 51,000, on Wednesday it averaged 66,000, and today we already have more than 80,000 subscribers! Is this awesome or what! Just hope this ain’t no glitch happening on Feedburner’s side. Would ruin my excitement ;) Apart from this good news, some bad things started happening as well. Last few days spammers really put their eye on our community. There were more than 200 spam comments posted per day. It became really painful dealing with them. In my opinion they started flowing via some automated script. Since our site doesn’t use CAPTCHA letters for protection, they were easily entered. This may as well serve as an explanation why your comments need to pass moderation before they are approved.

Simply rotate The Image!

As I’m not the biggest fond of captcha, I decided to install Akismet spam protection plugin, and all should be in balance once again. If my calculations turn correctly, and Akismet truly does its job, who knows – maybe I’ll even disable comment moderation, and your comments may start to appear momentarily (very soon). I’ll keep you informed, in the mean time lets try and solve today’s puzzle.

You can open the pictures in full size by clicking on them. Same goes for yesterday’s Empire game, forgot to mention it. It’s great to receive so many legit comments in just one post (300 valid comments at this moment), but what you should know is that beneath first 50 comments there is “more comments” link which will bring you to the rest of the entires. This is probably why I see all the same movies repetedly posted.  Hope this gets sorted when you get used to “more comments” feature, and when I ditch the comment moderation rule. Btw. I’m testing something with facebook comments, to allow those appear immediately. Logging off…