Take a look at the beautiful pavement art by Julian Beever. Some of them look so realistic that they appear three-dimensional. And with the camera angle adjusted just right, you can get this amazing illusion.

Peter Callesen created some unique paper art as found here.

Check out Photoshop guru Bert Monroy artpiece found on the web here.
This is not a photograph. He drew and painted it in Photoshop and Illustrator. The closeup shows amazing and realistic details. It took about 2000 hours to create this piece consisting of over 15000 layers in about 50 files. Even after flattening the image, the file takes up 1.7 GB of disk space.

Photographer Matt Stuart have the uncanny ability to capture shots at just the right moment. Some of his photos found on the web here can be quite humorous.

Or visit Matt’s official site at http://www.mattstuart.com/

Watch video here. Video of a lecture titled “The World is Flat” where Thomas L. Friedman talks about globalization in business. This talk was given at MIT. Thomas Friedman is author of the books The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, and of course The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Here is a funny picture on Flickr showing a sign not to hit your head on the sign.

You can watch full episodes of “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno on veoh.com. It is free on the web with no signup required. Great if you missed an episode on television.

Watch Nova’s documentary “Absolute Zero” chronicles the history of scientists’ attempts at trying to reach the coldest possible temperature which is known as “absolute zero”.

This video program is about two-hours long but broken up into 10 parts.

It starts with defining what cold is. As gases are lowered in temperature, it changes states from gas, to liquid, to solid. And at one-billionth of a degree above absolute zero, a new state known as Bose-Einstein condensate is achieved.

Passing a laser through this condensate, scientist is able to slow down light. Other remarkable properties of the super-cold is superconductivity. The program concludes with applications of super-cooled quantum devices such as quantum computers.

Watch the talk at MitWorld.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, talks at MIT about three of Amazon’s web services: Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Jeff answers some interview questions at the end. If you want to skip over the preliminary introductions by the Technology Review, just jump to 6:45 in the video which is when Jeff starts talkings.