Japanese toymaker Bandai's Mugen Puchi-Puchi is a handheld electronic gizmo that makes the sound of popping bubblewrap when you press on the plastic bubbles. From Mainichi Daily News: …Once in… Read the rest of the article: Electronic bubblewrap toy

Holy smokes. The talented artisans at Pressure Printing have just issued this mind-blowing Jim Woodring print. Titled "The Artist's Eye," the photo etching is a staggering 32.5" x 26.6". It's… Read the rest of the article: Pressure Printing's new Jim Woodring art

Dutch designer Tord Boontje designed this beautiful rug that looks like a floor of leaves and flowers but is really 100 percent wool felt. Hand-dyed, hand-loomed, and measuring W 118"… Read the rest of the article: Rug of faux leaves

Last week, I posted that the environmental organization Blacksmith had released its 2007 top ten list of the "World's Worst Polluted Places." National Geographic News has followed up with a… Read the rest of the article: Photos of World's Worst Polluted Places 2007

Two of the three founders of Blue Man Group have started a nursery school. The Blue Man Creativity Center opened last week with 43 enrollees aged two to four. It… Read the rest of the article: Blue Man nursery school

Sean Collins of Fantagraphics got a bunch of comic artists to draw renditions of David Bowie in his sketchbook and compiled them into a Flickr set. At far left, Adrian… Read the rest of the article: Comix artists draw Bowie

The original Sex Pistols will reunite for a one-off London gig to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. The November 8 show will… Read the rest of the article: Sex Pistols return

In this week's issue of The New Yorker, neurologist and science writer Oliver Sacks tells the incredible story of Clive Wearing, an accomplished musician and musiciologist who in 1985 suffered… Read the rest of the article: Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia

In the third issue of the online art/lit/culture journal Article, David Gill, author of the Philip K. Dick blog "Total Dick-head" writes about the new "prestigious" Library of America volume… Read the rest of the article: David Gill interviews Jonathan Lethem about Philip K. Dick

Last year, nine-year-old William Moore of York, England underwent emergency brain surgery after doctors discovered a brain abscess caused by meningitis. When he finally spoke again, William's Yorkshire accent had… Read the rest of the article: Brain surgery changes boy's accent

I've always loved the intensity of this scene from Don't Look Back where Bob Dylan tears into journalist Horace Judson who was interviewing the singer for Time magazine. Link to… Read the rest of the article: Video of Bob Dylan's 1967 Time magazine interview

Up for auction on eBay is an original copy of the charter and by-laws for Timothy Leary's League of Spiritual Discovery, founded in Millbrook, New York in 1966. With four… Read the rest of the article: Rare Timothy Leary document on eBay

As work continues on a new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the bridge was closed over Labor Day weekend to replace a football field-sized section of the… Read the rest of the article: Time-lapse video of Bay Bridge deck replacement

Carlos Amejo, 33, of Caracas, Venezuela, was reportedly declared dead after a car wreck but woke up during an autopsy. (A Reuters report, summarizing an article from the Spanish-language El… Read the rest of the article: Man wakes up during autopsy

In the early 1900s, municipal worker Eugene de Salignac took a slew of incredible photos of Manhattan as the city was reborn as a modern metropolis. Yet de Salignac's name… Read the rest of the article: Eugene de Salignac's early 20th century NYC photos

Philo Northrup, Harrod Blank, and their co-conspirators bring their eleventh annual ArtCar Fest to the Bay Area starting September 27 with a caravan from the Amoeba Records in San Francisco… Read the rest of the article: ArtCars in the Bay Area and Austin

A man jogging through a San Antonio, Texas suburb was attacked by an owl. It apparently flew into his head three times and badly scratched him up. From WOAI.com: "I… Read the rest of the article: Man attacked by owl

Yesterday, Point Pleasant, West Virginia hosted its annual Mothman Festival, a celebration recognizing a strange bird-like cryptid whose reported sightings in the 1960s were linked by some to a string… Read the rest of the article: Mothman vinyl toy and festival photos

Visitors to the two Bay Area Maker Faires will remember the amazing supercomputing cluster made from recycled PCs running on a veggie oil-fueled generator, and Silicon Death Valley, a fun… Read the rest of the article: Computer recycler threatened by bureaucratic nightmare

Chooka makes cool women's and children's rain boots styled after motorcycle boots and emblazoned with fun tattoo graphics and pop designs. You can see the whole range at the Chooka… Read the rest of the article: Rain boots with pop and tattoo patterns