The humble magpie joins humans, apes, dolphins, and elephants in Club Self-Awareness.
posted on Aug 20, 2008 - View this thread

Like shiny things? Bill Owen has a step by step tutorial on getting a mirror paint finish on objects with paint and wax.
posted on Aug 14, 2008 - View this thread

A liquid mirror telescope is made by spinning a reflective fluid, such as mercury, at a constant rate. This rotation produces a parabolic surface, which is an ideal shape for a telescope mirror. (You can try this yourself.) While these mirrors can be built to be large and orders of magnitude cheaper than solid mirrors, they have the disadvantage that they can only look straight up. Creating mirrors this way is not new; they have a history [.ps] that dates back to Newton. However, they have recently regained attention as the technology behind proposals to build an enormous (20m+) telescope on the moon. (A less technical treatment here.)
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - View this thread

Ever wish you had eyes in the back of your head?
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - View this thread

Mirror prank. (YouTube, SFW)
posted on Oct 16, 2007 - View this thread

Lightspeed is a fun little shareware game that I stumbled across today. It's one of those "bounce stuff off mirrors to light up stuff" puzzle games, but with nice graphics, and additional features like a level editor and such. Warning: windows only download, shareware fee to unlock many levels and features.
posted on Jan 22, 2004 - View this thread

Lots of sites have mirrors, but does Google really need one?
(thanks, memepool)
posted on Jul 9, 2002 - View this thread

Why are our images reversed from left to right and not up and down in a mirror? You can get mirrors that give a 'true' reflection.
posted on Nov 6, 2000 - View this thread

Check out this "mirror", its computer controlled and made out of wood. I really want one of these, watch the non-streaming video to view it in action.
posted on Aug 5, 2000 - View this thread