Activity Corner

• Sure, there's a volcano erupting in Iceland. But how exactly do you (or not) pronounce Eyjafjallajökull?


• Anatomy of a tribble.


• The rectum bar.


• Doing a text-based project? So you need a typeface.


• Chinese superhero knock-off FAILs.


• The Portland Mercury's new cover depicts Betty White wearing a slave Leia bikini, wielding a flaming chainsaw, and riding a John Ritter centaur. No, really.


• Make your own iPad.


• Someone made a web site to collect pictures of useless fliers.


• Be timely with your covert pictures/videos using this spy sport watch.


• A refrigerator, stove hood, and stove made out of carbon fiber. Goodbye, fridge magnets!


• Circular walking bookshelf.


• If you're like me and have both a Roomba and hardwood floors, you know the two don't work with each other. But now there's a solution: the dry/wet mop robot known as Mint.


• Why buy bottled water when you can combine a refillable water bottle with French-press-powered filter (like Brita or those faucet attachments)? Check out 321 Water.


• Can you clean and sanitize using only water? The answer is yes. I was surprised to find out the chemical properties of ionized water, and that there's a product that replaces all your cleaners: the Ionator. The short video gets the point across, but the Bill Nye video really shows you how it works.


• Who needs windows when you have the magic plasma screens of Winscape? I mean, seriously?


• Combining the Trololo song with the creepy robotic mouth gives us the robot trololo.


• A look at the 1940s picture with a time traveler in it.


• They're here! Bacon-flavored envelopes.


• The lying down game.


• Who needs those fancy iPhone apps or sound machines when you have the internet here to play you a rainy day?


• How to cuddle with an elephant seal.


• People on infomercials are some of the most inept morons you'll ever see. So how about a montage that's a tribute to doing it wrong.


• Read the artist's comment before clicking on the small picture to see the marginally bigger picture of the hardcore gamer's IQ test.


• Wasted guy versus flip flop.


• Oh, if most exposed buttcracks were on girls that looked like the product models, we wouldn't need these denim buttcrack covers. (Click the "Online Store" link to see the selection.)


• Here's just the thing for lonely nerds: the girlfriend pillow.


• What kind of drunk are you?


• The world's ugliest statues.


• Sure, there's a commercial first, but you can't miss the duet of Lin Yu Chun (the "Chinese Susan Boyle") and William Shatner singing Total Eclipse of the Heart.


• Baby kangaroo playing on the beach.


• Seven amazing hoaxes.


• 10 vintage comic book ads.


• Ibex using his horn in an unexpected way.


• Steampunk leg.


• The 10 weirdest urban ecosystems on earth.


• The circle of leaf.


• The 10 greatest fictional sports ever invented.


• Listen to a very young Betty White (from 1954) singing Nevertheless.


• Octopus steals video camera.


• If you like Ramen noodles, but would like a variety of flavors, now you can buy a customized box of Ramen.