Activity Corner

• Nice comparison of the five smartphone platforms.


• Tactile illusions.


• Operating system interface design between 1981-2009.


• Deaths of gamers leave their online lives in limbo.


• More periodic table fun: Final Fantasy characters and typefaces.


• Extreme sheep LED art.


• So it starts out as an anti-drug thing, but the really cool part is you record a message and turn the sound waveform into a bracelet. Wear your voice on your wrist for only 18 bucks: The Sound Advice Project.


• If you're a computer gamer like me, and your children are computers, then you need a Vision 1 workstation.


• Purchase your own officially licensed Watchmen doomsday clock, as seen in the movie.


• What do you get when you combine a raving Mac fanatic with love for anime and too much disposable income? Mac Life (4).


• I couldn't really get a good beat going, but it's still fun to play with the drums beatbox.


• And people make fun of my cooksperiments. Burger grease art.


• Bear pole dancing.


• Looking for unusual non-skid sticker for your shower? Try a banana peel.


• Where did so many of those old TV sitcoms supposedly take place? Visualize it with the USA sitcom map. (Although, technically, some of the shows shown weren't sitcoms.)


• Do you remember the Carlton dance?


• Drunk squirrel.


• The rapping flight attendant.


• 10 bizarre food festivals.


• 10 fake brands used by the entertainment industry.