Activity Corner

• How to take a good picture on your camera phone.


• Making your own comics? Then you should read this font and grammar guide. (Helping to spread the "one space after periods" rule, yes!)


• 10 privacy settings every Facebook user should know. It can help prevent what happened to this college professor.


• If you have a Rubik's cube you want to solve and an iPhone, you can take a picture of your cube, download the CubeCheater iPhone app, and get a solution of (generally) fewer than 20 turns.


• There's not much to their website yet, but Little Island will create a hand-made doll to match a photograph.


• Radio-controlled flying cockroach.


• How sound design works.


• Whether you're a boy or girl, strap on your 3D glasses and Kiss me in 3D.


• Everyone knows the Swiss Army knife. In recent years there have been models that keep up with technology, like the one containing a USB thumb drive. Here's one that's actually functional: it has a digital altimeter/thermometer.


• Roomba-like mini robo vacuum for your kitchen counter or office desk.


• The 15 coolest cases of biomimicry.


• Cold weather in Florida has led to a huge (herd? pod?) of manatees gathering near power plant warm water discharge.


• Favorite cookies, 1941-2008.


• 25 incredibly geeky t-shirts. And, yes, I own several of these.


• The song is nice, but the stop-motion music video is amazing!


• Riding Britain's biggest runaway snowball.


• A brief history of stop-motion animation.


• This is awesome. Play with the slider to see a time-lapse map of Superbowl Twitter chatter. Bigger words mean more traffic. Hover over cities to see summaries. This is what the web is for.


• Disney's Haunted Mansion turns 40. Click the "please click here" link to see all the cool retro-inspired artwork.


• The 11 most unnecessary how-to guides on the web. Warning: gratuitous use of the F word.


• If she throws like a girl, don't take her bowling.


• The technology's been around for a while, but now is available to everyone. They're admittedly pricey, but Audio Bone headphones are frikkin awesome!


• Molecular visualizations of DNA. Fascinating.


• Lolcats theme song.


• Little tortoise eating a cherry tomato.


• 10 things you're familiar with but your great-grandchildren won't remember.