Nate Marsh entered a charity "belt-sander race" with a customized Hello Kitty belt-sander — color coordinated, cute, and truly decorated. The other racers were likewise fantastic. After the platform was… Read the rest of the article: Hello Kitty-themed belt-sander

A player in the virtual world Second Life — which has an in-game economy for goods and services that can be converted to real-world cash — has started a site… Read the rest of the article: Reviews of in-game prostitutes

Nintendo has released a commemorative set of Legend of Zelda pixelblocks to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary. Link (Thanks, Phil!)

Today on the Worth 1000 photoshopping contest: put food into unexpected places. Link

Neil Gaiman, creator of Sandman and author of the wonderful novel Anansi Boys has two poems in the most recent volume of the online magazine Spiderwords. I love this one,… Read the rest of the article: Free Neil Gaiman poetry

GP2X News sez, "Lik Sang have posted news of the 2nd Edition of the GP2X released and a massive overview of all the best releases so far with screenshots and… Read the rest of the article: In-depth review of open handheld gaming console

Someone has re-cut Fight Club as a romantic comedy. It turns out that practically any weighty or horrific film can be re-cut as a romantic comedy with enough jaunty "Meet… Read the rest of the article: Fight Club trailer as a romantic comedy

Andre Torrez Ludwig Gatzke has collected the logos of dozens and dozens of "Web 2.0" companies and laid out them out in a grid in a gigantic image-file he's posted… Read the rest of the article: Dozens of Web 2.0 companies' logos

Nvidia stands accused of hiring online actors to create dozens of personae in online forums, where they won gamers' trust by talking about subjects unrelated to Nvidia's products, and then… Read the rest of the article: Did Nvidia hire an army of message-board sock-puppets?

My Beating Heart is a plush heart-shaped pillow that gently beats out a slow, steady heart-like rhythm. Creator Yury Gitman sent me one a couple weeks ago and I've been… Read the rest of the article: My Beating Heart — pillow that buzzes a heart-calming pulse

Quirks and Quarks, Canada's national science radio show, ran an excllent piece this weekend on "exercise myths," talking to researchers who've concluded that stretching before exercise impairs performance, that weekend-only… Read the rest of the article: Stretching before exercise impairs performance and other heresy

My pal Karl Schroeder, a brilliant sf writer, gave an excellent interview to the Small World podcast. Karl is the best worldbuilder in the business, with novels like Ventus (a… Read the rest of the article: Karl Schroeder, brilliant sf worldbuilder, interviewed

Blogs are growing faster than ever, with more than 50,000 non-spam blog-posts every hour; also on the rise are spam-blogs and blog-posts with categorizing tags. Every three months, Technorati founder… Read the rest of the article: Spam blogs, blogs, and tags all on the increase

Even with the description, I can't figure out how the hell this toaster works, but it looks interesting: The Radical Six Part Toaster rotates and heats the toast in single… Read the rest of the article: Complicated, interesting "six-part" toaster

I'm going to be in Boston next week for a gig as an MIT artist-in-residence, a bunch of meetings, some public talks and Boskone, the northeastern regional science fiction convention,… Read the rest of the article: Cory coming to Boston next week

TokyoFlash's latest amazing Japanese watch uses clever mirrors to make the time appear to stretch off into infinity: Have you ever looked into the vanity mirror, to see your own… Read the rest of the article: Japanese black-light watch uses mirrors to make time seem infinite

Chris sez, "My girlfriend found this photo album album full of 80-90's old school punk rockers. It paints a picture of the Philadelphia Punk scene then." He's researched the band… Read the rest of the article: Found photos from 80s Philly punk scene

Toronto will host the 2007 World Horror Convention, an annual, roving convention for the horror fiction industry and its fans. The chair in 2007 will be my friend Amanda Foubister,… Read the rest of the article: World Horror Con is coming to Toronto in 2007

This page has instructions for cooking "poached scrambled eggs" — scrambled eggs cooked atop boiling water. Teflon pans can are thought by some to be incredibly toxic when their coating… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make poached scrambled eggs

Today's Worth1000 photoshopping contest challenges contestants to modify photos of normal people to give them the big eyes and misshapen faces of characters in manga (Japanese comics). This is a… Read the rest of the article: Turn real people into manga characters – photoshopping contest