Activity Corner

• Global warming? No, climate change.


• Hamster-powered kinetic walker.


• Origins of the names of every country.


• 90s Nickelodeon game show hosts: Where are they now?


• The 25 best To Catch a Predator screencaps.


• Community does Dungeons and Dragons.


• Ultimate "NOOOOOOOOOO" compilation. And it's pretty damn ultimate.


• Just-purchased dating site OKCupid weighs in again with data breaking down the best questions for a first date.


• The Google Translate app is now available for the iPhone.


• The original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) as an iconoscope. (Although I suspect he made up that word, since iconoscope is an early TV camera tube.)


• EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about Doctor Who but were too lazy to ask.


• A progress bar for your workday: myprogressbar.com.


• Custom-painted weapons.


• The Oatmeal chimes in with the 6 crappiest interview questions.


• 22 manly ways to reuse an Altoids tin.


• A selection from over the years of (their idea of) the 10 funniest Superbowl commercials.


• Bullet pens. (Click the "Check it Out" button after the article.)


• The piano case mod.


• Have your favorite Tweet engraved on a ring.


• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan done in 60 seconds.


• Featuring state-of-the-art special effects (and sound quality like it was shot in a basement) is the incredible trailer for The Amazing Bulk. Yeah, this is on my "must see" list.


• Lessons from 40 films in 7 minutes: Reel Wisdom. (Read his description.)


• They're annoying to remember, insecure, and costly for companies to administer. They're passwords.


• As electric vehicles become more popular, more problems will come to light. A rat ate my Chevy Volt.


• Stethoscope headphones.


• Google Planet apps are allowing armchair explorers to make discoveries: hundreds of archeological sites in Saudi Arabia, and lost city of Atlantis. Update: "Atlantis" is boat mapping lines.


• The coolest locksmith shop in New York City.


• Activision has officially cancelled DJ Hero and Guitar Hero.


• 30 years of videogame hair.


• Stop believing the TV and movie trope: the real truth about enhancing images.


• Retrospective of Bruce Timm superhero drawings.


• Relive (and smell like) your childhood with Play-Doh cologne.


• Did you know there is such a thing as indoor cycling gymnastics? Neither did I.


• Awesome new take on Star Wars posters.


• Forgotten Nintendo games of the 1980s.


• Class of 2011: If social media were a high school.


• Top 10 famous people who didn't actually exist.


• Four robbers with sledgehammers versus one old woman with a purse. (Crappy cellphone video, but awesome nonetheless.)


• The 20 most popular people on the internet.


• Dazzling collection of detailed breakaway diagrams of Star Trek bridges.


• St. Matthew Island, a cautionary tale.


• Viewing iPad user interfaces by the fingerprints left behind. (And for a so-called visual designer, could he make the text any =harder= to read?)


• Craigslisp. HA HA HA HA!


• Beer and pretzel marshmallows. Ok, not really, but close enough!


• Boston examines fighting potholes with an iPhone app that uses the device's GPS and accelerometers.


• Controversial French rent-a-girlfriend website is a big hit.


• Sharks (and a heron) fishing in The Maldives.


• "Time capsule" mansion opened after 100 years. (With photos.)


• The remote Irish island of Skellig Michael.


• World's largest jigsaw puzzle. That'll keep grandma busy for a while!


• Hey consultants, here's a site for you. Should I work for free?


• Trololo is so last year, unless you're on acid. Rainbow trololo.