Here's Paul Joachim's 80 oz. monster cake from 2007, as featured on Evil Cakes: Made for a halloween party, this cake came out quite scary and realistic! I used 4… Read the rest of the article: Giant, monstrous cake

Dish Networks, the satellite TV provider, is being sued by Fox over its "AutoHop" feature, which automatically skips commercials. Fox alleges copyright infringement, which is a repeat of the claims… Read the rest of the article: Fox sues Dish over commercial skipping, claims copyright infringement

Tor.com reports on Pulitzer Winning novelist Jennifer Egan's latest project: a tweeted science fiction story in the New Yorker's fiction feed: This is part of the launch of the forthcoming… Read the rest of the article: Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan tweets a science fiction story for the New Yorker

Richard Katz, a NYC lawyer, has lost his breach-of-contract lawsuit against a pricey healthclub that changed its breakfast menu. Katz was a member of The Setai Wall Street Club and… Read the rest of the article: NYC lawyer loses $100K suit over healthclub that stopped supplying yogurt and cereal

If you've got a major-brand camera with a built-in GPS, don't plan on taking any geotagged photos in China. Chinese law prohibits mapmaking without a license, and most of the… Read the rest of the article: Why your camera's GPS won't work in China (maybe)

Anniina ("Scholar, Writer, Mother, Dreamer. Editor of Luminarium, an online library for English Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance") produced these delicious-looking and awfully lovely illuminated initial cookies: I… Read the rest of the article: Illuminated manuscript cookies

The other day I noticed that on the back of the one dollar bill, there is a phrase: The Great Seal of the United States. It is split into two… Read the rest of the article: Historical proto-Al Jaffee hides trenchant commentary in design of US Dollar Bill

James Losey from the New America Foundation writes, "I wanted to share New America Foundation's president Steve Coll's reasoning as to why he is leaving the Facebook. He analyzes a… Read the rest of the article: Why New America Foundation's president quit Facebook

Sculptor Jim Rosenau's "Reading Chair" is a 6" high piece made from volumes from an old Funk & Wagnall's and some blunt pencils. It's the perfect chair for a bookish… Read the rest of the article: Chair made from Funk & Wagnall's

Nachos NY — a site celebrating the nacho in all its glory — has produced three temporary nacho-related tattoos for your delectation. Nacho Tattoos (via Craft)

In the Globe and Mail a Canadian Press report by Nelson Wyatt on the mass-kettling and arrest of protesters in Montreal last night. A long-running and hard-fought student strike over… Read the rest of the article: Quebec cops kettle and mass-arrest demonstrators

A 20-year-old photo spread from pioneering cyberculture zine Mondo 2000 asks the musical question: "R U a cyberpunk?" Bruce Sterling, who was, in fact, a cyberpunk, answers: "Since 20 years… Read the rest of the article: Cyberpunk dress code, circa 1990

Henry Farrell (George Washington University) and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (Carnegie-Mellon/The Santa Fe Institute) have just posted a paper, "Cognitive Democracy," to Crooked Timber. Farrell and Shalizi argue that neither the… Read the rest of the article: Cognitive Democracy: networked-based decision making as an alternative to markets and "nudging"

Ted Kaczynski updated his own entry in the Harvard alumni directory, just in time for his class's 50th reunion: While many of his classmates sent in lengthy updates on their… Read the rest of the article: Ted Kaczynski's Harvard alumni directory listing

The Space Hijackers' Twitter account for their Official Protesters of the London 2012 Games has been suspended, following a complaint from the London Olympic committee: Twitter. That harbour of free… Read the rest of the article: Official Protesters of the London Olympics suspended on Twitter

My wife Alice quit her job a year ago to found Makies with some friends in London and Helsinki. Makies is a 3D printing startup. The company's mission is to… Read the rest of the article: Makies: custom-made, 3D printed action dolls

Abzde set a slinky upon an inclined treadmill and the brave spring proceeded to slink its way down that machine for 3 heart-pounding minutes and 20 unbeatable seconds. Watch as… Read the rest of the article: Slinky on a treadmill

Miss Cakehead sends us these "Incredible and gross chicken feet cake pops created for the Evil Cake Shop by Miss Insomnia Tulip." The feet are made from vanilla & raspberry… Read the rest of the article: Cakepops that look like gross boiled chicken feet

Etsy seller FaustX2 made this Star Wars fig display table out of printing-press trays and other salvage items, topped with tempered glass. This mixed media custom coffee table was made… Read the rest of the article: Star Wars fig display table