Activity Corner

• Just in case you =havent't= seen it yet, kitty meets iPad.


• I knew it! Frequent password changes are useless. Here's the link to the referenced Boston Globe article.


• "Let's say your the first human ever to make alien contact." What do you do to represent your species and planet? Here's a handy primer.


• How do you start your YouTube video post? "Hey guys!"


• Is it perpetuating stereotypes, or a parody of old-school videogames? Either way, it's a smartly-made animation. Dan the Man.


• Got more money than you know what to do with? Then you can probably afford this combination speedboat-submarine, the Hyper-Sub. Or the Nautilus VAS luxury submarine.


• If you're an avid collector and player of records, and I mean the old-fashioned vinyl stuff, you don't have to envy people with their Walkmans and mp3 players any longer, now that there's this portable turntable.


• Brilliantly done "ad": old masters in 3D.


• From the Department of Why Even Try comes running Windows 95 on a iPad.


• The manly way to hold up books: the Newton "bookshelf".


• Ricardo the goose drinks water from a red bucket. Yeah, that's really the whole thing.


• Awesome or creepy? Dew-covered insects.


• There is only one Shatner. (If you only read one interview article on him, it must be this one.)


• Paintballs plus computers plus art equals Facadeprinter.


• Have fun with the growing collection of sounds at Instants!


• One hero, one kid, one adult, five minutes: 5-minute marvels.


• Babies sitting in pumpkins. Is that where they come from?


• The "hand skills game" prank is good. Getting it on video is priceless.


• Real video converted to frames converted to stop-motion animation? Full circle with desktop skateboarders.


• 10 little-known relatives of famous animals.


• Passive-aggressive library signs.


• These two golden labs, River and Trout, absolutely =love= the snow.


• The garden of cosmic speculation.


• Cool (famous) guys on motorcycles.


• "We've got company."


• The "painting" otter.


• The Wizard of Dogs.


• A new meme you might see on the streets. The useless advertising flier.


• Altered antique plates.


• 11 unique antique typewriters.


• The swingless golf club.


• 20 party cakes gone horribly wrong. You may have seen some before, but they're still funny.


• The recursive Wil Wheaton shirt.


• The infographic infographic.