Activity Corner

• Have you seen the video for the 3D alphabet book? It's currently available for pre-order on Amazon.


• Do it yourself takes on a whole new meaning with the Home DNA Paternity Testing kit.


• Blast from the past: An article from a 1968 Mechanix Illustrated imagining What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008.


• The world's worst intersections and traffic jams: Part 1 and Part 2.


• It's never too early to start planning ahead: Eighty-Five Ways to Decorate Your House with Christmas Lights.


• USB device roundup: the questionable USB photo keychain; since many devices are charged by USB these days, it makes sense to have a 4-port USB car charger; for all you weather buffs, the USB hygrometer/thermometer; and when a regular mouse just won't do, you need the 11-button multimedia USB mouse.


• Do you like to party, but don't like the hassle of getting a DJ every time? Then you need the International Dance Party.


• How can you camouflage cans of beer so you can drink them without fear of reprisal? With Canouflage, that's how!


• Get a visual reprimand when you're using too much power with the glowing socket.


• You've probably never heard most of the 98 Nicknames for New York City.


• I've linked to stuff like this before, but I always find it interesting. Take 100 food products and compare the glamorous pictures to the sad reality.


• Kathleen Dustin's art purses.


• "Listen to your mother" is advice that, apparently, has a long-standing tradition. See for yourself the consequences of not heeding your mother's advice in this 1819 book Accidents of Youth (PDF file).


• In the days before political correctness, you could see ads like this.


• American Idol is not just American, with versions all across the globe. The less-talented can be amusing (to us), as in this Bulgarian Music Idol clip of a girl singing Mariah Carey's "Ken Lee".


• Wow, who even has time to care about The Most Horrible English Words?


• Conversely, writerly types might be interested in Common Errors in English (go Cougs!).


• In a hard lesson on not doing what everyone else does, it's the ice fishing mishap.