Activity Corner

• Do you have an iPhone? Do you need an excuse to get out of a meeting or a blind date? Then you need Fake Calls.


• Passwords work, if you do 'em right. But many don't: the most common password is "password1". See how easily bad passwords are cracked.


• 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography.


• A fun little web gizmo that can spruce up a presentation or just give you some background beats: it's the JS-909 beat box.


• It's just a query generator, but it makes it easy for you to make it easy for someone else to find information: Let Me Google That For You.


• LIFE magazine recently opened up its archive of pictures, and they cover every conceivable subject. Such as this series of a 2-year-old smoking.


• Guitar Hero + nighttime bike ride + too much free time = Bike Hero.


• Another entry in the Bacon Files: candied bacon ice cream.


• If you don't follow American Idol, you may not know that this year's two finalists were both named David. Depending on whom you wanted to win, the series finale was either the best or worst day of your life.


• Like, ohmigod, the internet is magic!


• Custom-order your very own pair of clown shoes.


• If you have lots of free time on your hands (and lots of markers), you might enjoy wallpaper you color in.


• Love chocolate? Love math? Love making graphs in Excel? Then you'll love the chocolate pie chart.


• The best part of the Fanboys trailer is the list of stars.


• Pop culture propaganda. I would love to have some of these.


• Persistent penguin evades hungry orcas. (Happy ending.)


• Squirrel-carved jack-o-lantern.


• The (literal) street art of pedestrian crosswalks.


• The off-road commode.


• One of the most totally awesome steampunk things I've ever seen: the steampunk space helmet.


• Slideshow called bees take over a BBQ.