No, I don’t know what’s with all these art-themed posts.

That’s a lot of yellow paint.
How is this illusion constructed?
See this link.

NO! I hear you say.
But wait!

You can see some more of Robert Wechsler’s work here. I love the circular bike!

Book art…..but not as we know it. These artists destroy books to create pieces of art - quite nifty.

This is just a sample, see this link for some more.

What can you do with Windows Paint in 40 minutes?
Well, this guy manages to do a pretty darn good picture of an iPod.

The finished product is below, and the video of it’s construction is below that.

(via TechEBlog)

TutorLinker is a Web 2.0-style service designed to match tutors with students. It uses the Google Maps API to show where potential tutors are located in your city. Tutors register their qualifications, hourly rate, distance they’re prepared to travel, subjects they want to tutor and their time availability. When students (or their parents) find someone they like they can view their profile and send them an email message to arrange something.

No, this isn’t my profile

There’s probably going to be a few problems that tutorlinker is going to face. The first is popularity. In the populous areas of the US for example, I would guess (and I am just guessing) that the site will be popular enough to sustain a fair amount of business. In the relatively sparse areas the tutor selection and the demand for tutors will probably be sporadic. Doing a quick check, there are three tutors in the whole of Australia at the moment (including me). It will take a bit of effort for it to reach a critical mass of both supply and demand.

Second on the list is the ’stranger danger’ fear. Tutorlinker make it clear that background checks are the responsibility of the student/parent and not the site itself. With the MySpace paedophilia/murder stories hitting the news every few weeks you can’t blame parents for being at least a little suspicious. Tutorlinker strongly encourages that tutors include a photo in their profile which provides at least a basic step towards the ‘creep factor’. Having said that though, not all bricks and mortar do police checks on their tutors, either.

I don’t have any major gripes about the site itself. There are some internationalisation issues that could be fixed, though. Some of the subjects tutors can elect to tutor in are very American-ised and certainly don’t apply to Australia. The second is the massive range of subjects. Whilst this may seem like a positive, when the site is in its infancy (in terms of Australian content, at least) it probably wouldn’t hurt to scale down the choices. There doesn’t really need to be six different maths choices for high school tutoring.

Overall, TutorLinker looks promising - maybe I’ll even get a job from it.

(via Lifehacker)