Activity Corner

• Cute overload: baby otter playing.


• 18 hacked digital road signs.


• Crazy military experiments.


• The shortest possible game of Monopoly: two turns, 21 seconds.


• How to open a wine bottle with a shoe.


• Inappropriate magazine cover.


• The right way and wrong way to wear your man-bag.


• Using geo-tagged pictures on Flickr to determine the locations of pictures taken by locals and tourists.


• The recurring prop newspaper, and the story behind it.


• Why much of what the kids do on Glee is copyright infringement.


• The NBC Muppet pipes.


• The electric shrub rover.


• Since most small devices are USG-powered these days, and we spend lots of time in our cars, why not get a USB car adapter? (Look, cheaper at Amazon!)


• Geeks do some funny stuff with Twitter's interface. Like the Twitter ransom note generator. Or replacing one word in tweets with another at Liblr.


• Animals with their tongues sticking out.


• In the demo for a new "Sherlock Holmes Nemesis" computer game, creepy sidekick Dr. Watson moves in mysterious ways.


• Geeky + Google maps = giant Australian USB farm.


• The "alien skin" throw rug.


• Comicbook-inspired headbands.


• Protect your iPhone with phoneballs.


• 22 fictional characters whose names you don't know.


• 50 welcome signs from 50 states.


• A true iron man.


• Plotting San Francisco crime as elevation maps.


• 15 retro videogame company logos and their modern counterparts.


• 7 jobs that sound like a joke.


• 6 bizarre Japanese subcultures.


• Chicken monkey duck. So stupid that it cracks me up every time.


• 5 incredible animals and plants.