Activity Corner

• 16 things your lawyer won't tell you.


• The evolution of hard disk drives.


• Have you heard about the school district laptop spycam scandal? Here's a good nerd read about it.


• Do deaf signers ever get words stuck on the tips of their fingers?


• In this high-tech world, an interesting throwback: the light bulb candle.


• The perpetual dominos machine.


• Don't struggle to hold a flashlight any more, use these gloves with built-in LED lights.


• The piano that hides in a table.


• I've linked to Style Your Garage before, but they now support super-large garage doors.


• At 11 feet tall, I'm not sure how a T-Rex statue qualifies as "garden art".


• The multi-purpose inflatable sleeping coat.


• This camp-style chair has a ""secret compartment"" (yes, I quoted their quote) that doubles as a cooler. Perfect for keeping your ass cool on a hot day.


• The insane Rube-Goldberg-esque contraption that uses the entire interior of a house.


• Perfect for both bathrooms and camping, it's glow-in-the-dark toilet paper.


• Anyone who's watched a DVD (especially Blu-ray) will nod at this piracy versus paying customer chart. (Ok, they edited the top part to show Arrested Development instead of the frame of The Matrix like at the bottom. But at our regular weekly movie night, we bitch about 1) the damn Blu-ray commercial on the Blu-ray we're already watching, and 2) all the damn unskippable stuff when we just want to watch the movie. Oh, and while I'm ranting, what's the deal with showing us parts of the movie on the unskippable menu THAT WE AVEN'T SEEN YET? Please, ruin more of the movie for me!)


• ThinkGeek adds to their periodic table designs with the BaCoN t-shirt.


• 15 things you should know about breasts. WARNING: Infographic boobies.


• If you've used Photoshop, you'll appreciate (even more than a non-user like me) Adobe Photoshop Cook.


• Bacon potato chips. Nuff said.


• Word to all craigslist posters: THIS is how you rent a room.


• New York gets two feet of snow. Literally.


• Kitten falls in love with a cop.


• The do-it-yourself SETI "Arecibo message" scarf.


• We've all seen pictures of animals and toys taken on their world travels. Now, if you have a toy you want to tour Prague in the Czech Republic, but can't go yourself, just send it to Toy Traveling and they'll do it for you!


• Procrastination. No worries; you can get to it later.


• The 10 smallest accredited colleges in the US.


• The redundant clock.


• Edward Gorey, Star Trek, and, in his style, The Trouble with Tribbles.


• Everyone's heard it, but we don't know what it's called or what it means, until now: O Fortuna translated.


• 10 animals with the longest lifespans.


• Awesome hand-carved skateboards.


• The world's 18 strangest airports.