This is a great illusion: the green and blue spirals in the image above are actually the same color! It works because the orange lines don’t go into the “blue” and the purple lines don’t go into the “green.” Pull it into photoshop if you don’t believe me, or see an close-up at Discover.

• Local couple, Bri and Cole, set to wed.
• Jonathan gets a mention in Playbill.

Google is coming out with a new real-time communication tool later this year, called Wave, with the ambitious idea that “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.” We’ll have to wait and see, but Mashable says “it combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management.”

Neato, but for now the screenshot above explains more about its functionality than any lofty comparisons.

I really like the paintings of Harry Underwood from Nashville. It all has a feeling of paint-by-numbers gone wrong. You can see a lot of his stuff on flickr, and he’s kind enough to make hi-res images available.

Over Lake Michigan, 30 second exposure. The colors are straight out of the camera.

• A young Frank Zappa (wearing a suit!) appears on the Steve Allen show in 1962. He’s there to “play the bicycle” much to Allen’s amusement.
• Around 1900, The Ladies Home Journal wrote a forward-looking article called “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.” Some of the forecasting is right on, like “telephones around the world,” but others, like strawberries as big as your head, were a bit off.
• An O’Reilly blog post about some of the ways Google (and others) are experimenting with HTML 5.

I mentioned a while ago that the game Rock Band was making an all-Beatles edition. The trailer for it has just been released. It’s a great piece of animation, but I like it most when the Beatles are in it (the first half).