Laine, a crafty crafter, has made a Katamari (the ball that picks up random oddments in the wonderfully weird games Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari out of wool and… Read the rest of the article: Handmade magnetic wooly Katamari

This pot-hanger is in the shape of the Chinese word for "luck," rendered in red steel. Link (via Cribcandy)

Princeton's Ed Felten has written a terrific article explaining the ins and outs of watermarking for audiovisual material, providing an excellent guide for anyone who wants to understand how the… Read the rest of the article: Princeton prof explains watermarks' failures

Some great new anagram transit maps came in overnight: Cleveland:: St Louis (I): St Louis (II): BART: Singapore LTA: (See this alternate Singapore map as well) (Thanks, Billy, Rob, Fred,… Read the rest of the article: Anagram transit maps for Cleveland, St Louis (x2), BART, and Singapore

The backyard ballistics people at Box O' Truth took some of the material that goes into body armor, laid it over blocks of clay, and shot it with a bunch… Read the rest of the article: Field-testing body armor by shooting it

This artistic Livejournaller hand-frosted a cake with Van Gogh's Starry Night and did a completely ass-kicking job. Link (Thanks, Okami Snow!) Update: Here's Van Gogh's Almond Blossom as a cake,… Read the rest of the article: Van Gogh's Starry Night hand-frosted onto a cake

Here's LA's Red Line as an hilarious remix anagram transit map (other lines to follow). As the suggester notes, "Would be funnier I guess if more people in LA actually… Read the rest of the article: Anagram remix of LA's Red Line

Stockholm joins the ever-growing list of cities whose transit map station-names has been remixed with their anagrams. Link See also: London Anagram Tube Map, Toronto Anagram Subway Map, Amsterdam Anagram… Read the rest of the article: Stockholm transit map remixed

Here's the DC Metro system map with anagrammed station-names! Link (Thanks, Gene!) See also: London Anagram Tube Map, Toronto Anagram Subway Map, Amsterdam Anagram Metro Map, Chicago Regional Transit Authority… Read the rest of the article: DC Metro map anagram mix

Black Box Voting has released its stats from its investigation of the electronic voting machines used in 2004 in Palm Beach County, Florida: they found over 100,000 anomalies in the… Read the rest of the article: Palm Beach County voting machines generated 100K anomalies in 2004

Popgadget reports on an ingenious flexible cutting board from Japan that comes marked with measurement guides that help you share out a pie evenly, or make precise measurements of ingredients… Read the rest of the article: Cutting board marked with measurement guides

Members of the Barbelith online community are conducting a discussion without using vowels. Teresa Nielsen Hayden removes the vowels from trolling posts on the Making Light message boards, a process… Read the rest of the article: Vowel-free online dscssn

Here's the Vienna U-Bahn map anagram remix, auf Deutsch. Link (Thanks, Mandaya!) See also: London Anagram Tube Map, Toronto Anagram Subway Map, Amsterdam Anagram Metro Map, Chicago Regional Transit Authority… Read the rest of the article: Anagram U-Bahn map for Vienna

The Dynamic Einstein picture lets you specify your own text for the Mighty Hip Einie to be writing on his personal chalk board. I always knew that that Einstein was… Read the rest of the article: Remix Einstein picture by speccing your own blackboard writing

Lots of terrific anagram transit maps! Altanta anagram map: Olso anagram map: Boston Orange Line Anagram Map: (See this alternate, more complete version) (See also this alternate Boston map) (See… Read the rest of the article: Anagram transit maps for Manhattan, Oslo, Boston and Atlanta!

Umpqua sends us a link to a Flickr group of "old photos of children either dressed up as cowboys or indians and/or on ponies. Lots of cute children and very… Read the rest of the article: Vintage photos of kids dressed as cowboys

A Trading Standards officer in a town in the UK contacted the Mozilla foundation to assure it that she'd caught the icky pirates who were copying Firefox without permission. When… Read the rest of the article: UK anti-piracy officer assures Firefox she'll catch the pirates who copy it

Following on from the Transport for London censoring a fan-remix of the Tube map labeled with anagrams of the station names, Pete's mixed his own version of the Chicago Regional… Read the rest of the article: Anagram remix of the Chicago transit map

Chris has begun to post his favorite vintage motel-room postcards to Flickr. It's a great collection! He waxes rhapsodic about "the lamps, the bedspreads, the nightstands, the old TVs (or… Read the rest of the article: Vintage motel postcards

This "Sports Utility Watch" is 1.5" x 2", and includes a compass and a thermometer. Plus it's gigantic and completely gearhead chic. I want one. Link (via Gizmodo)