Activity Corner

• Karate chop in slow motion. Yuck!


• While I don't necessarily agree with his tastes, I love the idea of charting taste versus difficulty.


• Compare the relative sizes of many of your favorite sci-fi spaceships at Starship Dimensions. This is seriously cool. You can even drag them around to more easily compare!


• The story of the giant sticky man.


• Car logos in "sign language". Right-click the pictures and select Properties to see the filename/answer.


• A Flickr photoset: Ill-Advised Business Names.


• Another (and more awesome) Flickr photoset. Take a song, make some kind of chart about it, and add it to the Song Chart Meme.


• What's the greatest thing since sliced bread? A bread-slicing robot.


• Toast clock? Toast clock!


• Toaster phone? Toaster phone!


• If you have a reason to check your typing speed, there's no cooler way to do it than with the USB Speedometer.


• Since the Oscars just happened, here are 80 Years of Best Picture Winner Posters.


• Slow-motion video of a water balloon not exploding.


• Introducing the Echo Park Time Travel Mart.


• 30 creative bookshelf designs.


• Barack Obama? Hillary Clinton? John McCain? No, John McClane!


• Screensavers have become something you stare at, instead of their original purpose. Especially when you have one as compelling as the surveillance cameras screensaver.


• Ok, this is freakin' amazing. It's a chart of the movie box-office receipts for the last 20 years. Scroll to the right and left, and hold the cursor over a "blob" to see the movie title and approximately how long it was popular in theaters. You can definitely see the summer blockbusters and end-of-year holiday releases dominate the industry. It's also interesting to see that some movies bloom and die quickly, while others enjoy a longer, if smaller, run.


• Mythbusters: cutting down a tree with a minigun.


• Bacon cups.


• From the Department of WTF: Tree jewelry.


• Edit: two additions from Mr. Joel. Cut the cheese and Like.