Activity Corner

• Here's one for weebat: the Neverending Story van.


• The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years. Here's Crayola's list of colors, and a cool infographic showing color progression.


• Things you probably didn't know about sports.


• 11 most painfully obvious newspaper articles ever (so far, at least).


• The kids from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie, all grown up.


• OkCupid, an online dating site that routinely shares detailed data trends, returns with a fascinating article on the 4 big myths of profile pictures.


• From the People With Too Much Time On Their Hands Department comes the Avatar battle diorama in LEGO.


• Cool concept foldable wind-powered generator.


• Now you can build your own electric car. Make anything you want on top of the Trexa electric vehicle chassis.


• Mini cupcake maker. Ready in 5 minutes!


• Tara Reid plus Playboy layout plus Sharpie fetish equals huh?


• I posted a video before of a guy's wife crying after Star Wars. It was so popular (and his wife's such a good sport) that he set up a site with videos of her crying after movies they watch: Crying Wife.


• As a gamer geek, I found video games by the numbers very interesting.


• Hierarchy of the dead.


• How to catch a huntsman spider.


• Why you should wash new clothes before you wear them.


• Music infographics at Charting the Beatles.


• The world's 10 most invasive species.


• Hong Kong CGI explains the late-night Leno/O'brien "war". And you don't even have to speak Chinese to understand it. Why don't our news networks do stuff like this?


• 10 weird superheroes you might not have heard about.


• 10 enigmas that defy explanation.


• 7 classic movie scenes that you didn't know were improv.


• Check out the result of Marvel comics artist Jack Kirby designing Shakespeare costumes.


• 10 clever kitchen repurposing tricks.


• Bohemian Rhapsody, in bluegrass.


• If you spend time on internet forums, then you'll be familiar with these internet argue techniques.


• There's really nothing more to say than upside-downy face.


• Great album of pictures from the USGS recording Hawai'i's Pu‘u ‘O‘o–Kupaianaha Eruption, 1983–1997.