Activity Corner

• It's tax season, so make sure you get all your deductions straight. Such as Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children.


• Ok, this is reading (I know!), but still awesome. You'll be amazed at how they did it. School kids measure distance to the Moon.


• British group covers a song, using only iPhones and App Store apps.


• Top 10 time-lapse videos show nature at work.


• 100+ funny photos taken at unusual angles.


• Like turkey for Thanksgiving? Bored with the everyone's-doing-it deep-fried version? Then you need, if just for the name alone, the turkey cannon.


• A British design team is attempting to break the world speed record (set in 1906) for a steam-powered car.


• Go all Flintstones on your guests with stone "ice" cubes. I love the "Stone does not melt" in the description.


• Iron Man versus Bruce Lee.


• The story of Little Red Riding Hood, retold in hi-tech infographic style.


• Start with the trailer to Wall-E, and dub it with the Watchmen trailer's audio, and you have the Wall-E Watchmen trailer mashup.


• Remember the cantina band song from the original Star Wars? Ever heard it on a harp?


• Also, the Imperial March played on a hard drive.


• More periodic table fun (a new geekmeme): periodic table of controllers, periodic table of Xbox games, and periodic table of Final Fantasy characters.


• Batman's batlogo has changed over the years. Watch the mighty morphing Batman Icon's Mutation.


• The top 10 extinct beasts.


• Cat cleans fennec fox.


• Japanese cat Maru, who loves sticking his head in boxes, returns with a bag.


• Matt Hoyle's old-timey-style photographs of some of the last of the sideshow performers.


• Mysterious celebrity tattoos.


• Not big enough for Friday Game status, but still interesting. Can you get out of the White Zone?


• Kill Bill (parts I and II) in one minute. (Yes, these are the same people that did the Forrest Gump one.)


• Harmonica + beatbox.


• World's most impressive explosions of lava. (Although I think "explosions" is a bit sensational, based on the content of the page.)


• Pouring sheets of lead for pipe organs.


• Honda's new commercial promoting their hybrid car.


• Men in Black bloopers.