Thursday, December 18, 2008

Optical illusions

This is silly:
Santa's main distribution center is a sight to behold. At 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m2), it's one of the world's largest facilities. A real-time warehouse management system is of course required to run such a complex. The facility makes extensive use of task interleaving, literally combining dozens of DC activities (putaway, replenishing, order picking, sleigh loading, cycle counting) in a dynamic queue...the DC elves have been on engineered standards and incentives for three years, leading to a 12% gain in productivity...The WMS and transportation system are fully integrated, allowing (the elves) to make optimal decisions that balance transportation and order picking and other DC costs. Unbeknownst to many, Santa actually has to use many sleighs and fake Santa drivers to get the job done Christmas Eve, and the Transportation management system optimally builds thousands of consolidated sacks that maximize cube utilization and minimize total air miles.
Thank you Wikipedia.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to do this to the car in front of me. Also it irks me when the car in front of me at a light doesn’t pull up to the line.

This gif says that if you see the person spinning clockwise, then you are right brained and if counterclockwise, then you are left brained, but you can make it spin the other way. It seriously took like 10 minutes of staring at the shadow and repeating the direction she was going to get it to switch. I think everyone sees it clockwise first.

This video is too cool. It’s proving that you can’t see a face inside-out.

I hate the little red “x” boxes for pictures that can’t be seen. This makes me hate them a little less. lol

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