Activity Corner

Ok, time to make up for last week's missing list of distractions.

• YouTube is full of videos of people killing flatscreen TVs with their Wii remotes. Protect yours with TV Armor.


• Jet-powered merry-go-round.


• If you love doing Halloween up right, and you have an air compressor, then you need the WebCaster. (Check out the additional views.)


• Mold your baby's pliable misshapen head into shape with CranialTech's DOC Band.


• Of course. It had to happen. The Bacon of the Month Club.


• What point in the continental United States is furthest point from a MacDonald's?


• 100 greatest hits of YouTube in 4 minutes.


• Paintball "pop" art. (Skip ahead to about 0:35 for the good part.)


• Nooo! The Pee-Wee's Playhouse action figures are sold out! And why isn't there a Captain Carl?


• Easy Tiger – The Pre-Stained Clothing Company.


• "I had to use my computer, up hill, both ways!". Excerpts of advanced DOS strategies.


• Clever animation using a pegboard and letters/numbers: Txt Island.


• One guy's opinion of the top ten great movie deaths.


• Another dude's idea of the 15 ugliest cars ever made.


• The origins of 25 popular products.


• New (too short!) Simon's cat video: Hot Spot.


• The interactive map of banned and challenged books.


• Life Magazine's list of 30 dumb inventions.


• A sub-list! The eight most amazing one-take video clips.
  
  1. I Gotta Feeling lip dub.
  
  
  2. Flagpole Sitta lip dub.
  
  
  3. Nyle's Let The Beat Build.
  
  
  4. Daft Hands.
  
  
  5. Forrest Gump in one minute.
  
  
  6. 28 Days Later in one minute.
  
  
  7. Ok Go's Here It Goes Again.
  
  
  8. Honda's Cog.


• Top ten unanswered questions in geeky movies.


• Appetizing architecture.


• 11 famous actors and the big TV roles they turned down.


• Carl Sagan from his Cosmos series plus AutoTune (and a surprise guest) result in A Glorious Dawn.


• The most controvesial magazine covers (supposedly of all time).


• More of Liu Bolin and his urban camouflage.


• 25 awesome homeless guy signs.


• If you are both a Jedi and a wearer of bathrobes, then you'll want the Jedi bathrobe.


• Wear your emotions on your chest with the light-up emoticon t-shirt.


• A marriage proposal? Keep clicking Next.


• Pictures of parents at My Parents Were Awesome.


• The 15 strangest breast cancer awareness products.