Activity Corner

• Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.


• In nuclear missile silos, death wears a snuggie.


• Peep show: inside the world of unsecured IP security cameras.


• Portal song "Still Alive" in Minecraft note blocks.


• Are we too obsessed with Facebook? (Scroll down for infographic.)


• Concert piano with iPad dock.


• Crayola now has 3D sidewalk chalk.


• Artistic, or too much time (and apps) on your hands? iPhone apps organized to make an iPhone font.


• History of gaming.


• Get a first-person perspective of your Hot Wheels' drive with Mattel's new Video Racers.


• Samsung phone manual includes instructions for making fake calls.


• Hipster superheroes.


• What are the differences between all those audio formats?


• Finally, whiskey in a can.


• A decade of storage.


• How big, exactly is Starbucks' new Trenta size?


• Spock says, "'Fascinating' is the word I use for the unexpected."


• Want kids to learn science?


• Superhero movies by the numbers.


• Modern Times, a short film.


• Why just paddle through the water, when you can look beneath you with a see-through canoe or kayak?


• Star Wars galaxy map.


• The evolution of Nicholas Cage's hair.


• Bryan Lewis Saunders' self-portraits on drugs.


• Rear view of a flying arrow.


• Bacon-and-eggs scarf.


• Most New Yorkers don't even know of the mystery in their midst: North Brother Island.


• Ten 80s movies that will remind you of your geek roots.


• Evaporating boiling water at -30F.


• Animaniacs intro, South-Park-style.


• A vintage 1982 stop-motion short, Encounter.


• You've never heard Dr. Suess' Fox in Socks so fast.


• I'm linking to the trailer of the new movie Rubber because it's all over the internet, but be aware of the warning that the trailer gives too much away (which is why I haven't watched it). Rubber trailer: movie about a killer tire with psychic powers.


• The story behind Oregon Trail.


• 17 things you (probably) didn't know about Seinfeld.


• Bobdul Johnson: IDEA DEFENDER!


• If you're a Star Wars fan, and looking for some new wallpaper, you'll love the amazing 3D renders at Fractalsponge. Seriously, they're awesome.


• Micro DSLR camera with interchangeable lenses.


• Discography of your favorite band.


• Soviet accident prevention posters.


• The Tiger Mom meme.


• 9 things that make you an asshole on evolution.


• How mobile devices are changing when we read.


• Email spam statistics.


• Here's what happens when you analyze and condense 22,000 horoscopes into one meta version: Horoscoped.


• Examining all the movies released in 2010 and how you can consume them in where the hits are streaming.


• Ok, it's just over 9 minutes long, but worth the download wait. Follow the time-lapse (and well-edited and -soundtracked) Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Akademik Federov.