Activity Corner

• Arrrr, today be Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties! Avast, talk like a sea dog with the pirate translator. Get yourself some pirate fonts and symbols.


• Here's a really interesting test where you try to order colors based on their hue. What's your color IQ? (I scored 16.)


• If you belong to Netflix, you know about the red cover flaps you rip off their envelopes. But don't throw them away, you can use the for Netflix origami.


• In case you haven't seen it, the Mentos-and-Coke guys bring us fun with sticky notes.


• Guy skis down escalator.


• Do you like popping bubble wrap? And you do like calendars? Then you'll love the bubble calendar.


• Bambi and Thumper.


• If you live in Toronto, and have the morbid desire to eat a recreation of an executed prisoner's last meal, then check out Last Meals Delivery Service. Here's a write-up of someone who tried it.


• According to Passive-Aggressive Notes, it seems that disappearing lunches is a very common office phenomenon. Fight back with the anti-theft sandwich bag.


• Cell phone towers are unsightly, and they are often camouflaged so they won't be so obvious.


• How long could you survive chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor? Find out! (Me: 1 minute, 9 seconds.)


• Special conditions call for special vehicles. Top 13 polar super vehicles from the Antarctic.


• 30,000 dominoes built into 45 walls. Knocking them down.


• Polar Inertia (an awesome photo site) catalogs the crazy world of Bangkok Wires.