The art of your refrigerator contents; I can guess what mine says about me…. Potato Portraits – the artist forgot to mention that they’re also cheap, but that probably didn’t influence the choice of vegetable at all 10 weirdest species discovered in 2008 – eeeeuwww! bacteria in hairspray? Queen Elizabeth’s gold-plated wii – I wonder [...]

After spending an hour on hold this morning listening to an ’80′s loop with a heavy dose of Michael Jackson, I was curious to see what was out there on musical torture.  Turns out the armed forces were way ahead of me and have been using annoying music, in particular Barney’s I Love You (an [...]

It turns out there is a lot of ‘helpful’ advice on the web for faking your own death. Here are just a few: How to fake your own death from Everything2 How to fake your own death from eHow (heavy on the etiquette and a little light on the practicalities) Faking  it: How to do [...]

Just when you thought Wales was a quiet part of the world someone discovered the ghost slug.  True, earth worms are the only ones with any need to shiver in their beds but there is just something creepy about he white, slimy thing. The video from the BBC may leave you more enamored of teh [...]

You might have seen this video on the Today show a few weeks ago. I know there’s a long history of dancing with brooms, mannequins, and dress forms, but there’s something about the red long johns that makes Robert Post’s interpretation stand out. The panache required to pull it off on national TV is worth [...]

Mindcasting – a new word for giving the world your opinion before checking to see if it’s interested Open source candy via DRB – and they’re asking for volunteers! Twitter haiku contest – this might be the best excuse for Twitter yet The Tetris song played on glass bottles via Walyou – there’s just something [...]

This post is the promised continuation of How to promote your favorite artistic experiment as a masterpiece in 3 easy steps. It is a useful skill for writing longer and even more pretensious museum labels, being disarmingly snarky at boring coctail parties, or getting people to move large trash (like old servers) out of the [...]

Hampsters are apparently uncommonly resilient in real or virtual form.  For some inexplicable reason I was moved to look up the infamous Hampster Dance website last week to see if it was still there.  Not only has it survived ten years, it launched in February of 1999, but it has spawned as rodents are prone [...]

Think of it as a more earth-bound X Project. The goal is for a human-powered flying machine to go more than 100 meters off the designated English pier for a reward of 30,000 pounds.  They’ve been trying since the competition’s inception in 1971 and now there’s a mascot, 3 classes of entry (2 serious and [...]

Hugh Laurie’s singing abilities don’t often get much press but they add a lot to his ‘best’ work. These songs are less well known than the Jeeves and Wooster clips. And if that didn’t give you enough to go on, here’s the sequel: