The Supermagic 2009 from Roma helped me to refresh my memory. Seeing all the magics, the technologies and all demonstrations of skills, I had a recall. In the archive I kept a nice movie with a magic number and you have to see it!

Studies have shown most colors have more positive than negative associations, and even when a color has negative association, it is normally only when used in a particular context. Black is often seen as the ‘color’ of death in Western culture. This is likely because when things die the rotting flesh will turn black, and it is also the color of wood after fire has completely consumed it.

You’ve seen some time ago how photoshop could make an awesome girl from an ordinary one; this time, a parody of the Dove campaign is presenting you a slob evolution of a quite pretty young man:

The color purple (or, more accurately, lavender) became popularized as a symbol for pride in the late 1960s – a frequent post-Stonewall catchword for the gay community was „Purple Power”.

The dark disk of the moon creeps across the setting sun during the first solar eclipse of 2009, as seen on Monday from Manila Bay in the Philippines. People viewing from the southern Indian Ocean were among the few to see the full annular eclipse, so called because at its peak the eclipse is surrounded by an annulus, or ring, of fiery light.

Mars Company has been producing M&M Chocolate Candies since 1941. Various rumors have since been attached to different colors of the candy: the green ones are an aphrodisiac; if the last candy out of a bag is red, make a wish and it will come true; if the last candy out of a bag is yellow, you should call in sick and stay home; orange M&Ms are good luck, but brown ones are bad luck.

I ended up with an older woman at a club last night. She looked OK for a 61 year-old. In fact, she wasn’t too bad at all, and I found myself thinking that she probably had a really hot daughter.

Prior to the 2000 presidential election, there was no universally recognized color scheme to represent political parties in the US. Color-based schemes became widespread with the adoption of color television in the 1960s and nearly ubiquitous with the advent of color in newspapers. A three color scheme – red, white and blue, the colors of the U.S. flag – makes sense, and the third color, white, is useful in depicting maps showing states that are „undecided” in the polls and in election-night television coverage.