Activity Corner

• 16 items they only sell at Chinese Walmarts.


• Top Gun then and now. (Because you're wondering, it was released in 1986.)


• Phoenix Wright released on the iPhone!


• Looking back at the predictions in Bill Gates' book The Road Ahead.


• Missing your Lost? Wish there was a way to stay immersed in the island tale? Maybe you can use Lostpedia. It's seriously detailed; look at this entry for Craig.


• Summer's coming, and you want to listen to your iTunes, but you don't want to endanger your iPhone/iPod Touch. No problem, just get this waterproof speaker case.


• I still scoff at cufflinks while shaking my head at the number of geek offerings. Like these 2GB USB flash drive cufflinks.


• Waterproof (to 10m) LED flashlight and digital video recorder.


• With the Anipov LED system on your bicycle spokes, you can have circular animated images.


• Star Trek speakers.


• If you use Twitter, then you should check out this site that gives you a physical representation of your followers: IS Parade. You can even click on a follower to switch to them.


• It's a poster of a light that is also actually a light.


• The "graphic" truth.


• If you have a pool, then you need a Skamper Ramp.


• 1950s commercial for cold cream has an interesting proof test.


• How many White Russians does The Dude drink in The Big Lebowski? Nine.


• Unforgivable geek behaviors.


• A 1983 song that you'll all remember is a cover of a 1960s Burt Bacharach song.


• A gallery of bowling alley scoring screens.


• Lost characters re-imagined as videogame characters.


• Velcro plus iPad equals heart!


• Captain Kirk frequently "lost" his shirt (and it was even parodied in Galaxy Quest), but now the idea is captured in Shirtless Kirk cologne.


• The site says, "The natural look is in." Which is why they're selling nipple enhancers.


• Life imitates "art": from Teen Wolf to teen wolves.


• It was common in Victorian times to take pictures of dead children.


• Talent show lip-sync of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You goes batshit crazy.


• It may only take a matter of seconds for a thief to break into your car, but it takes a reporter several takes to make it work.


• Plattsburg, Missouri police office Shepherd's body camera records him freeing a dog from a wire fence, and then shows how the dog surprises him.


• Bling for you ladies' acrylic nails: nail art.


• The origins of 10 nicknames.


• Hundreds of vintage lunchboxes.


• 10 amazing transparent animals.


• While they added their own special kind of humor, you might be surprised how many scenes of the 1957 movie Zero Hour were copied to 1980's Airplane. Check out this comparison video.


• Wobbly Russian bridge.


• 8 strange historic jobs.


• The woodpecker alarm clock.


• America's least-traveled national monuments.


• A 1927 map of Paramount Studios "locations".