Activity Corner

• Design your own gaudy holiday sweater.


• The gingerbread house showcase.


• Maybe my next cooksperiment? Bacon chocolate chip cookies.


• When regular dollhouses are too mundane, turn to the crack row dollhouse.


• Sure, there are regular run-of-the-mill superheroes, but what about the less common heroes?


• The start of a new meme? This peanut looks like a duck.


• For those that love cheese, how about a nice chunk of this?


• Google is now searching and indexing computer code on the web. It has uncovered some interesting programmer profanity.


• A great short story: Security Question.


• How out-of-body illusions cause plane crashes. Seriously, 90 to 100 percent? Whoa.


• Bizarre and funny Windows errors.


• Have you played Guitar Hero? Maybe some Rock Band? Then you're all set to try your hand at Handbell Hero. (Seems like a perfect gather-round-the-computer activity for Christmas Day!)


• The Galactically Hot Women of Star Trek (the original series, of course).


• Create your own delightfully random holiday greeting with the Holiday-O-Matic.


• Vintage Soviet Christmast cards. "Ded Moroz" is the Russian name for Santa.


• Amazing video of a swimming sloth.


• Make your own virtual snowflake.


• I had no idea there were so many videos on YouTube of snow plow trains.


• If you've played Starcraft, you'll recognize these Starcraft origami.


• A final note for the holidays. If you live in Washington State, a reminder that, starting January 1st, 2008, ANY cellphone texting activity while driving is illegal. Remember, people, have a designated texter... don't text and drive.