Young adult author Lorie-Ann Grover sez, "In 2008 and 2009, readergirlz, GuysLitWire, and YALSA orchestrated publishers' donations of 20,000 new young adult books to hospitalized teens across the country. For… Read the rest of the article: Operation Teen Book Drop: getting 10,000 books into the hands of native American teens

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Would a lava lamp work properly on Jupiter? Google software engineer Neil Fraser built his own centrifuge in order to find out, using an Android phone app to measure the… Read the rest of the article: Homemade centrifuge solves pressing questions of our time

This desk, designed by Roderick Vos of the Netherlands, is made to look like an Art Deco skyscraper. It's a bit much for my liking, but fun to look at.… Read the rest of the article: Art deco skyscraper desk

Strange Maps points us to an interesting collection of 577 "map backs" published by pulp magazine company Dell Publishing — illustrations that pinpoint exactly where incidents happened in famous detective… Read the rest of the article: Maps on the back of detective novels

Comic book historian Craig Yoe has a knack for finding long-forgotten comic book gems. His latest full-color hardback book contains all three issues of Jetta, a Judy Jetson-esque space girl… Read the rest of the article: Jetta: cute space girl from the 1960s by famous Archie artist Dan DeCarlo

Tom Watson — the principled and technologically savvy UK Labour MP who led the fight against the Digital Economy Bill — has begun to campaign for re-election, starting with a… Read the rest of the article: Digital Pledges for the UK election

Guy from Power2010 sez, "Power2010 have released a brief report showing examples of hypocrisy by UK ministers and MPs when it comes to privacy and personal information. We are timing… Read the rest of the article: UK MPs call for ID cards and surveillance, but demand privacy for themselves

Colin Jackson, a commenter on a blog, on the miserable state of international law: "What a pity international governments don't seem to be able to make an agreement to ration… Read the rest of the article: International trade can't ration finite fossil fuels or tuna, but enthusiastically restricts infinite knowledge

Michael Geist sez, "The U.S. Trade Representative issued a release just prior to the launch of the New Zealand round of ACTA [ed: The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright… Read the rest of the article: America blackmails the world on ACTA transparency

The experience of reading Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour is eerily similar to the experience of listening to Quirks… Read the rest of the article: Nasty, Brutish and Short: wonderful animal behavior science-stories

The PublicACTA activists have been meeting in Wellington, New Zealand — site of the next round of negotiations on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement — drafting a declaration on how… Read the rest of the article: Sign the PublicACTA Wellington Declaration!

Having finished the manuscript for his next novel, Zero History, William Gibson is taking a break from fiction by answering a wide-ranging set of questions from the readers on his… Read the rest of the article: William Gibson answers questions

Artist Jason LaFerrera makes wildlife collages out of old maps. His first show is coming up in Richmond, VA, and he's posted some samples of the material he'll be showing,… Read the rest of the article: Wildlife made from collaged maps

Fifth dimensional, quantum, Zarathustran, vibrational, third-eye, DNA activation and healing. It's apparently "calming." Zarathustran!

To fully appreciate the Insane Clown Posse science textbook parody, you must first witness the actually pretty awesome video above, for "Miracles," off their 2009 album Bang Pow Boom. And… Read the rest of the article: Insane Clown Posse "Miracles" video

If the Insane Clown Posse and their juggalo fandom created a science textbook, this is what it would look like. Daniel O'Brien of Cracked.com, who is responsible for this here… Read the rest of the article: Learn F***in' Science with Insane Clown Posse

Matt Jones and McLaggan Smith Mugs are selling these wonderful "Get Excited and Make Things" mugs, with proceeds to a children's hospice near the McLaggan Smith factory in Scotland. Get… Read the rest of the article: Get Excited and Make Things: the mug edition

To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law, the British Council asked a lot of people with strong ideas about copyright, from the… Read the rest of the article: Copyright turns 300

Nancy Sims, a librarian and "proto-lawyer," made these absolutely wonderful egg-Daleks for a friend's birthday, fully documenting the build and putting it online so that you can make one too.… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO Make a Dalek Egg