DeviantArt's Ashleyisthebomb shows off a Starburst chewies castle whose individual bricks were melted together with a glue-less hot glue gun: "because there was no glue or anything, it was completely… Read the rest of the article: Castle made of Starburst

These meat-shaped balloons were created as a storefront display by Object Design League, who will sell you a steak or sausage model for $8. DesignBoom has tons more pics and… Read the rest of the article: Balloons that look like meat

Mozilla's new Webmaker project is a global initiative to "move people from using the Web to making the Web." They're running a series of events, including an upcoming Summer Code… Read the rest of the article: Mozilla Webmaker: teaching people to make the Web

Courts around the world have instituted censorship regimes that require ISPs to block the Pirate Bay. In response, TPB has added a new IP address (194.71.107.80) by which it can… Read the rest of the article: Pirate Bay announces new IP address, proxy-friendly design

Celeste Kidd from the University of Rochester writes in with news of a new study on PLoS One, which attempts to quantify the amount of stimulus that is optimal for… Read the rest of the article: How much kid-stimulus is right?

Jonathan Chait takes to New York Magazine to explain how a revisionist version of American civil rights history paints the Republicans as the party of racial equality: The civil rights… Read the rest of the article: Republican revisionism and civil rights history

This badass chopper was (apparently) hand-built by Emile, a Frenchman whose Citroen car broke down in the middle of the northwestern African desert, and who built himself a motorcycle out… Read the rest of the article: Homemade motorcycle improvised out of a Citroen 2CV in the middle of the desert

Musician Amanda Palmer, whose Kickstarter project for an all-singing, all-dancing tour plus album plus art book plus videos extravaganza is heading for the $1,000,000 mark, explains where all the money… Read the rest of the article: Financial breakdown of Amanda Palmer's million-dollar Kickstarter

Denise Balkisoon, who did a great job covering the Byron Sonne trial writes, "If you're not tired of G20 hacker/accused bomber Byron Sonne yet, the details of his pre-trial are… Read the rest of the article: Sealed evidence from the Byron Sonne trial

A Redditor posts photos of a jar of American gods, hole-punched out of the US dollar bills that an atheist friend receives as tips in his job as a valet.… Read the rest of the article: Jar of American Gods

Tiffiniy from Fight for the Future (standard-bearers in the fight against SOPA) sez, Congressional hero of the SOPA wars, Senator Wyden, said about cyber security legislation (CISPA and Lieberman-Collins) that… Read the rest of the article: Let's kill CISPA: America's universal surveillance law

Hank Chapot sez, "You've published two links to my research about the 1937 police corruption scandals in San Francisco, November and February, 'the long lost Atherton Report.' After all the… Read the rest of the article: Historical novel tells the story of San Francisco's profit-sharing madam and the cops who betrayed her

Jason K has reimagined a series of Studio Ghibli movie posters as covers of vintage Penguin paperbacks. He sells them as posters, postcards, and assorted other etsybits. Studio Ghibli 4×6"… Read the rest of the article: Studio Ghibli posters as old Penguin covers

AKMA Adam sez, "After three years of living in Glasgow, we couldn't miss the opportunity to return to Cozy Noodle in Evanston — our favourite restaurant here, where we used… Read the rest of the article: Cozy Noodle: Evanston, IL's Happy Mutant haven

In case the Epic Poop post has you reaching for a unicorn chaser, I bring you…unicorn poop. Specifically, DIY unicorn poop from Instructables user kristylynn84. The secret ingredient is love.… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make unicorn poop cookies

A stapler with a USB hub in it? Why not? USB ALL THE OFFICE SUPPLIES. Usb hub auto Stapler (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

The RedPower Minecraft project, which has built a programmable 8-bit computer for Minecraft, has done a new release. Engadget's Mat Smith sums up the new features: "The system is made… Read the rest of the article: New features for working 8-bit Minecraft computer

A Reddit thread called "Did you ever think you were going to die from a shit?" sparked a lyrical/scatological series of reminisces of epic dumps, including a two part series… Read the rest of the article: Epic dumps, recalled

A Zimbabwean senator named Morgan Femai from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has given a bizarre, misogynist speech at an African HIV/AIDS conference in which he proposes that his… Read the rest of the article: Zimbabwean senator proposes ending AIDS crisis by mutilating women and preventing them from bathing

A creative agency called Murmure is kitting out its employees with concrete business cards that come with their own miniature shipping palettes. There's a scene in a William Gibson novel… Read the rest of the article: Business cards made from concrete