Mirrors have always fascinated me. Both straight and curved mirrors - they present a world to us at once familiar, and yet also highly irregular. When I was young I would spend hours walking around my house with a mirror / inverting prism combination so that I was literally walking on the ceiling. We form an internal model of our familiar environments, and so these kinds of manipulations of our perceptual world have an immediate and striking effect on us. The latest use of a mirror is the GOOGLE mirror. A mirror in internet terms is a backup copy of a web site, and google allows an interface into it’s main database to be mirrored. This allows access to google even if, for example, a governement blocked the main google site
(which China does). This site however also reverses the text of the page, and you therefore need a real mirror to view the web site! It’s very bizarre to surf via mirror - but I suppose if content blocking was enabled, the double-mirror could bypass it because all the text is reversed. What if random unicode characters that appeared similar were also used? I’ve been homeless (!) for the last week and a half, which is why I haven’t updated… The joys of London…
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