Activity Corner

• A new coffee-table book about The Empire Strikes Back includes some rarely-seen photographs.


• Incredible footage of venturing into the mouth of a volcano.


• Marty McFly's futuristic self-lacing shoes are going up for auction.


• The US Army is getting Fallout 3-style wrist-mounted displays.


• Famous last words mashup. WARNING: Gore and language, as you'd expect.


• Water droplet bouncing on a superhydrophobic carbon nanotube array.


• The A to Z of the shortest book titles.


• Superman's social network nightmare.


• Why you see "Free Public WiFi" in so many places.


• The true size of Africa.


• A 911 call... about an elephant.


• Type in the word of a wikipedia article, and you can see how many articles (hops) are between it an Hitler at Hitler Hops.


• Spinning bullet on ice.


• Superhero cake.


• During filming of the new Transformers movie, Autobot Bumblebee hits a police SUV.


• Hot chick is a pole-dancing ninja.


• The release of the 25th anniversary set of the Back to the Future movies contains an interesting extra: the original Marty McFly was Eric Stolz.


• Dating site OK Cupid is back with more number crunching, this time dispelling (and proving) stereotypes in gay versus straight.


• 109 cats in sweaters. Yes, really.


• The Grover Old Spice ad parody, smell like a monster.


• Classic bait-and-switch in this Australian ad.


• If you know your Star Trek, you know your Red Shirts.


• Legos in the city.


• How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel.


• Synesthesia, the video.


• The New Mexico 2010 Balloon Festival.