Activity Corner

• Got a paper due that you haven't written yet? Don't use excuses, turn in a corrupted file.


• A bookstore manager describes the seven types of customers.


• Apparently, ants can survive in a running microwave because they avoid the standing waves' hotspots.


• When it comes to USB gadgets, they've outdone themselves with the USB microwave.


• World's smallest digital video camera.


• He's got skills, but the ninja nerd needs to practice them a bit more.


• The Web back in 1996-1997.


• Hospital food from 11 (or more) different countries.


• Weird, but cute: The Blue Balloon Cafe.


• The 15 most disturbing movies ever made. Read the list at your own peril.


• A senior project stop-motion film: Deadline.


• An a capella choir from Slovenia performs Toto's "Africa", but the intro to the song is almost the best part. Don't skip this one.


• Stormchaser video from inside a Wyoming tornado.


• 12 spectacular summer food festivals.


• 6 extraordinarily stubborn "nail houses".


• You'll be excused if you don't know the song "Nobody But You" by the Korean group The Wonder Girls. Here's a Korean soldier dancing to the song. Seriously, dude, white socks?


• A Flickr photo pool where people hold up old photographs, matching them up with the real-world view. Looking into the past.


• Australian rain forest sculptures.


• 12 of the worlds most fascinating tunnel networks.


• 10 unusual knives, swords, and blades.


• They're not aliens, they're astonishing insect eggs.


• Baby pandas playing.


• With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a redneck if you have custom squirrels.


• How to fake an appreciation of art.


• New book smell in a can. My favorite on the aroma selections is "Eau, You Have Cats".


• Hammer Pants flash mob.


• The 10 coolest places to swim.


• People make some crazy crafts, such as this knitted lab rat dissection.