Esworp sez, "Please draw your attention to the German game Kackel Dackel. Rolling the dice determines how far the 'food' advances down the dog's noisy digestive track. The goal is… Read the rest of the article: German dog poo game for kids

Knitter Tara Wheeler has whipped up these wonderful TARDIS socks: "I knitted up a pair of these a few years ago and they've gotten lots of complements. I've finally written… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO knit TARDIS socks!

NeilWalker sez, "The the Archaeological Survey of India discovered a mysterious hidden room while restoring the Indian National Library in Alipore. They know the room is large, around 1000 square… Read the rest of the article: 1,000 sqft secret chamber discovered in Indian National Library

George sez, "This looks like the work of the world's greatest dad: a ceiling level, custom-built kinetic marble run – complete with Instructables info to make your own." Kinetic Marble… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make a stupendous, ceiling-height kid's-room marble-run

Last week, I caught Tuba Skinny opening for the Dresden Dolls in New Orleans — Amanda Palmer heard them busking in the French Quarter and invited them out to the… Read the rest of the article: Tuba Skinny: Old timey blues and jazz street act from New Orleans

Here's a PDF flier on the dangers of pornoscanners to print and alarm your fellow aviation sufferers with. (Thanks, Meredith!)

This beautiful vase was 3D printed in glass through 3D printing shop Shapeways, then finished with leaded glass enamels: "When designing hollow parts accommodations must be made to allow the… Read the rest of the article: 3D printed glass vase

This 1950s California Wine Advisory Board ad is pretty much the apotheosis of what I love about old advertising art: the line-control, the demented facial expressions, the tantalizingly odd clothing… Read the rest of the article: California Wine Advisory Board ad, 1950s

Matthias Wandel's rubber-band-powered Jenga Pistol brings an entirely new, nerdy delight to the staid old game of Jenga by using the rapid transfer of kinetic force to achieve seemingly impossible… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make a Jenga pistol

Writing in next week's Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi is incandescent on the fraud-riddled, corrupt, closed-door "Rocket Docket" courts set up in Florida to expedite the process of dirtbag lenders kicking… Read the rest of the article: Florida's dirty "rocket docket" courts are a gift to fraudulent lenders

A Microsoft spokesman told Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday that despite earlier threats, they wouldn't sue people who made and shared their own Kinect drivers.

While I'm guessing that there are probably ways of positioning the straw on this Buzz Lightyear sippycup such that it doesn't look like Buzz has an enormous, mutant green bendy-straw… Read the rest of the article: Buzz Lightyear With a Huge Erection sippycup

This insanely complex chart represents securitization auditor Dan Edstrom's best attempt to figure out who actually owns his mortgage: "The following flow chart reverse engineers the mortgage on the Ekstrom… Read the rest of the article: Who owns your mortgage, the mind-croggling flowchart edition

Travis Nuckolls and Chris Baker walk the streets of Colorado Springs asking strangers whether being gay is a choice; to those who say it is a choice, they answer, "When… Read the rest of the article: When did you choose to be straight?

Writing in The Atlantic, Megan McArdle bids adieu to the airlines: "If I have to let someone else see me naked in order to be with you–well, I'm just not… Read the rest of the article: Dear airlines: goodbye

Here's a survey of 17 anonymous TSA Transportation Security Officers, discussing their discomfort with being required to touch strangers' genitals to earn a living: "It is not comfortable to come… Read the rest of the article: How TSA screeners feel about junk-touching

To those who say the terrorists have won: have you considered that perhaps forcing cancer survivors to endure the humiliating removal of their prosthetic breasts is merely the price of… Read the rest of the article: TSA forces cancer survivor to remove prosthetic breast

The Wellcome Library's collection includes a small but piquant selection of Victorian bumwad; it's horrifically fascinating stuff: Our main example comes from the 1870s, when one popular product was the… Read the rest of the article: How the Victorians wiped their bums

Here's an anonymous account of a US Army soldier returning from Afghanistan who watched as his buddies — who were all carrying high-powered rifles, pistols, etc — were forced to… Read the rest of the article: TSA confiscates heavily-armed soldiers' nail-clippers

Science fiction writer Chris McKitterick's experiences with pirate editions of his latest novel are a good, complex and nuanced story about the plusses and minuses of giving your work away.