This is cool: Harry Potter illusion shawl

This is pretty cool. Look at this knitted shawl straight on, and it looks like this:





But if you look at it from the side, it looks like this:

Read more about how it's done here.

Here's a wonderful Decrease Worldsuck idea

Check out Emotional Bag Check. Here's an article about it in Wired magazine:

Life sucks, right? But music makes it better. That’s the worldview behind Emotional Bag Check — a site that lets you suggest songs to cheer people up.

It’s simple. Go to Emotional Bag Check, and choose whether you want to offload a problem or help out with someone else’s.

If you want to get something off your chest, all you need to do is type what the problem is, provide an e-mail address, and someone will read it and return a song they think is relevant along with (optionally) a message of support.

If everything’s going pretty well for you, and you just want to help other people out, then you’ll be confronted with someone’s problem and asked to pick a song that’ll make them feel better. Here, a sense of duty suddenly kicks in — you’ve got a direct line to someone’s heart, and you don’t want to waste it. You’ll find yourself taking a substantial amount of time to choose a song that’s just right for the situation, as if this person were a close friend.

The developer, Robyn, answers FAQ questions here. Also on Twitter at @emobagcheck.