Check out the size of...
This pigeon!!
It's crazy what you can do with a flashlight and cameras.
People such as Derren Brown who seem to have an understanding of how people behave can do things like leave a wallet in a street and not have anyone touch it. The link provides explanations and some videos.
In case you ever get a hankering for some old Atari games... check out Kaboom
I've been searching for this for a while (not intently but... enough) and I finally came across a site that produces Flash cards containing the Cantonese pronunciation of Chinese Characters (as opposed to Mandarin).
This is a demo of some of the lessons (I think) or it could be a compressed version of the EyeQ speed reading program. I'm not sure how accurate it is though but it did mark an improvement after trying out the flash thing from 658 wpm to 955 wpm.... mind you that's using really big text :P and I wasn't asked to analyze it... simply read it.
The NYPL launched a website containing scanned images of their gallery. Now you can see as New Yorkers see :P