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Lego Announces Frank Lloyd Wright Lego Sets!

2009-05-21T08:45:00.001-07:00

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.

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DSi architect reveals unreleased Nintendo handhelds

2009-03-27T07:56:00.001-07:00

Masato Kuwahara, project leader on the development of Nintendo DSi, provided a special treat during his GDC panel appearance today: a first-ever glimpse at two Game Boy spin-offs that never were. The first a hefty predecessor to the Game Boy Advance; the second a touch-screen GBA SP.

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The Making Of Wrestle Jam: The Wrestler's Unsung Hero

2009-02-24T13:48:00.001-08:00

Short article describing the two-person team that created a working 8-bit wrestling game for "The Wrestler." Describes the effort involved and explains the use of video games as a trope for aging in one scene of the film.

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Socks, the Clintons' White House Cat, Dies

2009-02-23T09:48:00.001-08:00

Bybye socks.

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Surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters

2009-02-11T09:14:00.001-08:00

(Mental Floss) -- Like a lot of people, I grew up on Sesame Street and the Muppets. But did you ever stop to wonder where they came from?

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Classic Game Ads of Yesteryear (PICS)

2009-02-05T12:19:00.001-08:00

Awesome collection of old gaming ads.

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Building Giant Lego Mario With NextEngine 3D Scanner & Modo

2009-01-26T10:55:00.001-08:00

Awesomeness.

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Lego Obama Presidential Inauguration Brings Hope to Bricks

2009-01-21T10:42:00.001-08:00

There's also hope and change in the land of the brick: Behold the Presidential inauguration of Barack Obama in Lego bricks, complete with every single character that will be at the Capitol, including Lego Oprah.

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"Prisoner" Actor Patrick McGoohan Dies in LA

2009-01-15T12:06:00.001-08:00

Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show "The Prisoner," has died. He was 80.

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Most Remote Place on Earth: 270 People Can't be Wrong [PICS]

2009-01-14T09:33:00.001-08:00

Probably as far away as possible! Short of launching him into space, consider this island - the most remote inhabited location on the planet. There are other distant places, but they are uninhabited, mostly barren and unexciting - but here life is established in a very British way, so our world-leader-in-exile would not mess it up so easily, one ho

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Growing Up Star Wars: 1977-1985 (PICS)

2009-01-12T12:16:00.001-08:00

Before George Lucas turned our intergalactic dreams into a cosmic joke, we were obsessed. Want to remember what young-you felt for Star Wars, before Jar Jar, Jango and Jedi Younglings? This flickr slideshow will make you forget everything terrible that happened after the Ewoks' original Yub Yub song played its final notes.

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N.Y. Boy Scout Earns All 121 Merit Badges

2008-12-30T10:29:00.001-08:00

A Long Island teenager has earned all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts of America. It's an accomplishment the local arm of the organization calls "an almost unheard-of feat."

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6 Amazing Blue Holes [PICS]

2008-12-23T08:34:00.001-08:00

Have you ever swam out in the sea and not been able to see the bottom? All you can feel is the freezing the freezing cold water beneath your feet, all you see is dark blue water extending to infinity. Welcome to the world of blue holes

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HUGE Hoth ice world Star Wars LEGO Diorama [PHOTOS]

2008-12-22T13:09:00.001-08:00

This is the entire 93-PHOTO set of the Hoth base from Empire Strikes Back. Astounding. On brothers-brick.com that it took four years and $3,000 to complete.

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1981 Murder of Adam Walsh (John Walsh's Son) is Solved!

2008-12-18T10:38:00.001-08:00

Authorities in South Florida announced Tuesday that they've finally solved the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh, whose father later gained fame as the host of "America's Most Wanted." Hollywood police held a news conference to close the case of the abduction and homicide of 6-year-old Adam.

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Santa's Little (Slave) Helper

2008-12-09T08:22:00.001-08:00

Few European Christmas traditions elicit as many diverse and divergent opinions as Black Pete of the Netherlands. Santa's former slave may have been whitewashed in recent years, but many still view him as a racist caricature from the country's colonial past.

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ONE-LEGGED Football star had 11 solo tackles [video]

2008-11-24T15:26:00.001-08:00

and had a 5'10" high jump, and played basketball, and played football in college. They called him Sugarfoot.

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Richie Jackson - Not Your Normal Street Skateboarding

2008-11-19T09:05:00.001-08:00

This guy is amazing!

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Sacred Geometry

2008-11-17T10:13:00.001-08:00

Sacred geometry is an ancient system of design and building based upon the harmonic relationship between man, nature and the universe. Virtually ignored by modern architects and designers, it was central to most ancient societies.

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The artist who makes sculptures out of old hubcaps (pics)

2008-11-14T13:24:00.001-08:00

An artist has collected thousands of lost hub caps from roadsides across Britain and turned them into spectacular animal sculptures.

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How To Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting To Kill You

2008-11-13T08:06:00.001-08:00

An illustrated guide to identifying if your cat is plotting your demise.

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Early Star Wars Storyboards (PICS)

2008-11-10T12:27:00.001-08:00

These are early storyboards from Star Wars, from before the Falcon was changed to its current design. To my knowledge, the majority of these storyboards were done by 'Rocketeer' and 'Jumanji' director Joe Johnston.

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Saturday Night Live - Giraffes!!!

2008-11-06T11:47:00.001-08:00

They are coming for us all...

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Exclusive: The LEGO Minifig Timeline

2008-10-31T10:05:00.001-07:00

We've worked with LEGO to painstakingly collect 7 catalog almost every minifig ever produced into a photographic timeline. See the evolution of the iconic figure, from the very first sets in the 70s seen in Gizmodo's exclusive tour of the secret LEGO vault to the latest and greatest ones in 2008. A LEGO sensory overload that will blow your mind!

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20 Classic Films Recreated in LEGO (PICS)

2008-10-29T09:18:00.001-07:00

The only true way to improve on these classics...

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Caves: The World Beneath the World [PICS]

2008-10-29T09:16:00.001-07:00

If you are stretched and squeezed by everyday life, then you might be in perfect shape to explore caves.

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Hawaiian Cave Reveals Ancient Secrets

2008-10-27T10:03:00.001-07:00

From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F. James and Storrs L. Olson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., along with their children, Travis and Sydney, and our own, Mara and Alec.

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Ever seen a creepier tower?

2008-10-27T10:00:00.001-07:00

Even without the crawling babies it’d be a strange looking beast, but that didn’t deter the geniuses in charge of the tower from permanently attaching david cerny’s sculptures to its legs.

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Mexico's Cave of Massive Crystals [PICS]

2008-10-24T11:49:00.001-07:00

Massive beams of selenite dwarf human explorers in Mexico's Cave of Crystals, deep below the Chihuahuan Desert. Formed over millennia, these crystals are among the largest yet discovered on Earth.

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Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Advanced Planetarium!

2008-10-23T08:27:00.001-07:00

It was really awesome. It has been years since my last planetarium visit and things have certainly changed. This system has an amazing backbone. Well worth the price of admission.

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"I can't imagine a President being named Obama"

2008-10-23T07:54:00.001-07:00

This woman is scary for many reasons... just watch her eyes!

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The Birthplaces of 10 Great American Foods

2008-10-22T15:41:00.001-07:00

We’ve compiled a list of all the foods you love, and all the places you need to thank for them.

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Tissue Thin 'Buckypaper' Stronger Than Steel

2008-10-20T12:19:00.001-07:00

It's called 'buckypaper' and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionize the way everything from airplanes to TVs are made.

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The Bible...Lego Style

2008-10-14T08:38:00.001-07:00

Amazing!... could it be Brickble? Or Biblego? Or Legible (as in Leg-i-ble)?

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How to Recycle Almost Anything From A to Z

2008-10-13T11:50:00.001-07:00

Each water bottle you recycle may seem like a drop in the bucket, but don't undervalue your efforts. America is recycling nearly 33 percent of its waste

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Presidental Canidates as trains

2008-10-08T08:28:00.001-07:00

I think I can I think I can...

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This is the kind of man Barack Obama is...

2008-10-06T09:48:00.001-07:00

An amazing true story of how Obama helped a complete stranger.

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Nintendo Announces DSi

2008-10-02T08:34:00.001-07:00

Breaking News "Third Platform." Complimenting the DS?

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Apple to Make iTunes & iPod Completely Accessible to Blinds

2008-09-29T11:01:00.001-07:00

Apple has committed to work with the state of Massachusetts to use its VoiceOver technology from Mac OS X to make its iTunes and iPod ecosystem fully usable for the blind.

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How Criterion Hones Its Restoration Magic for HD

2008-09-26T08:31:00.001-07:00

These people act as a curator and a publisher, hand-selecting a wide variety of films, mostly foreign, classics and indies. They painstakingly create the definitive digital version of that film, completely restoring both the audio and video, gathering up the most complete supplementary features available and releasing it all in beautiful packaging.

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Tribute To The Yankee Stadium - Built With Legos [PIC]

2008-09-25T08:10:00.001-07:00

Dedication, passion whatever you call it. This is simply amazing

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10 Stunningly Misleading NES Box Art Covers

2008-09-24T08:41:00.001-07:00

Drugs. One can only blame illegal substances for the exceptionally large number of insane, totally weird, fantastically awesome or otherwise completely misleading (yes, they’re all part and parcel of the same grouping) cover art designs to original NES games.

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The 7 Ugliest Cars Ever Built

2008-09-23T08:44:00.001-07:00

Auto makers employ some of the world’s most skilled designers to help them create the general aesthetic for their brand, and the subtle nuances that help create an identity for each of their models. Sex appeal has always played a role in car design, as sales are often driven as much by functionality as they are by desire.

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Top 10 80’s Cartoons

2008-09-23T08:42:00.001-07:00

Oh the 80’s. The decade that gave us the Wonder Years, Who’s the Boss, great video games and a flippant hairstyle as high as a skyriser. What else could the 80’s be known for? What about all the great cartoons that came out in the 80’s? In this list, we will go through what we think are the top 10 cartoons from the 80’s.

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Superfluids - Liquids That Defy Gravity

2008-09-22T11:01:00.001-07:00

A superfluid has zero viscosity and will "creep" up the walls of a beaker or other container and escape.

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50 Incredible Hollywod Film Posters ... From Poland

2008-09-19T09:35:00.001-07:00

My jaw nearly hit the floor when a coworker introduced me to the wonderful world of Polish film posters a couple of years ago. These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame every time; they are truly beautiful works of art. Trimming this list down to a mere 50 posters that I absolutely love was surprisingly difficult.

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Sept. 19, 1982: Can't You Take a Joke? :-)

2008-09-19T09:12:00.001-07:00

With a short post to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University, on September 19, 1982 at 11:44 AM, Scott Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon.

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The NES Precedent: Lessons Learned To Make Wii Successful

2008-09-18T13:55:00.001-07:00

After weeks of research, VGChartz has assembled NES shipment and sell-through figures to get an idea of how well Wii might perform.

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Kurosawa's restored 'Rashomon' to be screened

2008-09-18T08:47:00.001-07:00

almost 60 years after "Rashomon" won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival as well as an honorary Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is premiering a restoration of the film Thursday at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

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16 Most Unassuming-but-Lethal Killer Plants [PICS]

2008-09-17T08:08:00.001-07:00

Most plants contain some level of toxins (like alkaloids) for defense. After all, they're plants. They can't go anywhere. But you may be surprised to find out the incredibly lethal plants often hanging around the neighborhood park - or gracing your tabletop in the form of a centerpiece.

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Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

2008-09-15T11:20:00.001-07:00

Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £500,000 clock with no hands that pays tribute to the world's greatest clockmaker.

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Greatest Movie Trailer Voice of All Time Goes Silent

2008-09-02T13:43:00.001-07:00

Don LaFontaine, the man who provided the sonorous voice for more than 5,000 movie trailers, died Monday at age 68.LaFontaine died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a collapsed lung. He had been taken to the hospital Aug. 22 with a blood clot in the lung.

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Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?

2008-08-25T11:27:00.001-07:00

A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves—some underwater—have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes

2008-08-25T10:34:00.001-07:00

I just have to post this video so that I may include it in the 8-part series I did on Kubrick’s Napoleon. You may recall in Part 1 how obsessed Stanley was about every detail, about how he had 18,000 documents and books about Napoleon, a monster index file of the 50 principal characters in the movie, which were all written on 3x5 cards and...

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Aug. 19, 1839: Photography Goes Open Source

2008-08-19T12:10:00.001-07:00

With a French pension in hand, Louis Daguerre reveals the secrets of making daguerreotypes to a waiting world. The pioneering photographic process is an instant hit.

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10 Caves to Explore in Bermuda [w/PICS]

2008-08-18T09:23:00.001-07:00

Beaches, blue seas, and… caves? They’re all waiting for you in Bermuda.

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Flickr shot used on Schmap

2008-08-15T07:57:00.000-07:00

Kinda cool. They used my photo of the Gold Hill Hotel on their site: http://www.schmap.com/reno/lodging_outandabout/#p=124021&i=124021.jpg

7 (More!) Underground Wonders of the World [+PICS]

2008-08-14T09:24:00.001-07:00

Humans burrow into the Earth out of anything from necessity to superstition, driven by coincidence or coerced by circumstance. From subterranean cities to hobbit holes, here are some of the most amazing examples of historic human efforts under the planet's surface.

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Goonies Sequel on its Way

2008-08-06T09:25:00.001-07:00

Warner Bros say they're making The Goonies 2 and they want to make it a big budget blockbuster. But the question stands - do we want to see a fully-grown man doing the truffle shuffle?

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Monster Dr. Dre Beats headphones, iPhone's new best friend?

2008-07-25T22:19:00.001-07:00

At $349 these are built with iPhone users in mind, two sets of cables with 3.5mm jacks included, one of them equipped with an microphone for phone calls. They also have a pause button for your music when you get a call.

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Taco Bell Makes a Special Delivery to a Longtime Customer

2008-07-24T09:52:00.001-07:00

For years Wolfe made his own personal 'Run for the Border' every day, we're talking 7 days a week, 365 per year and Tuesday, the folks at Taco Bell returned the favor.

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Huge Japanese Typhoon Surfer Ross Clarke Jones Interview

2008-07-23T07:51:00.001-07:00

Big Wave surfer Ross Clarke Jones talks about facing the most dangerous waves in his awesome career. He also lets us in on his favorite untapped surf locations.

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Inside the Lego Factory

2008-07-22T10:30:00.001-07:00

This video shows something that very few people have had the opportunity to witness: the inside of the Lego factory, with no barriers or secrets.

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Nudibranchs, The Most Colorful Creatures in the World (PICS)

2008-07-18T07:38:00.001-07:00

The nudibranchs most exceptional aspect is their incredible color palettes. Some species’ palettes match the dark greens and browns of their ocean surroundings, while others boldly contrast the colors of their habitats.

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Stanley Kubrick's Personal Papers Reveal New Insights

2008-07-16T14:40:00.001-07:00

Scripts, letters, designs, props, photographs – as many as 900 boxes of material belonging to one of the greats of cinema have now been made available to a wider audience. Stanley Kubrick's widow, Christiane, gives us a fascinating insight into the public and private worlds of an inspirational film-maker

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13 Things You Didn’t Know About 'The Office'

2008-07-16T13:16:00.001-07:00

#2 - The exterior of the Dunder-Mifflin office in the opening credits is really the Penn Paper building located on Mifflin Avenue in Scranton, PA. Up until a few years ago a bar named The Office was located across the street from the Penn Paper building.

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The Origins of 10 of Your Favorite Muppets

2008-07-03T09:18:00.001-07:00

If you know the story behind one that I left out, share with us in the comments!

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Remember R.O.B.? He’s back… in LEGO form.

2008-07-01T14:50:00.001-07:00

NES, R.O.B., Smash Bros., and SNES made out of Legos

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65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year

2008-06-27T11:48:00.001-07:00

Exclusive video of the Lego Cathedrals, eight massive Lego storage buildings with 65.6-foot high ceilings, a 65.6-square-mile shelf space, and dozens of giant robots going up and down retrieving boxes full of bricks. "I felt like I entered the Matrix. Below the thunderous noise of the flying machines, I heard myself shouting: 'It's a cathedral'".

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lego

2008-06-26T11:14:00.001-07:00

Do you wanted to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What's the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? You sent the questions and here you have the answers: Here's the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego.

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Knight Rider GPS Video Review - KITT is your Co-Pilot

2008-06-26T09:55:00.001-07:00

This is a technology video preview of the Knight Rider GPS by Mio. Hear new audio by William Daniels recorded exclusively for the device. KITT will call you Michael, Susan, Joe or one of 300 other names.

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Blind Can Surf the Internet From Any computer, Anywhere

2008-06-26T08:42:00.001-07:00

New software, called WebAnywhere, launched today lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Web on the go. The tool developed at the University of Washington turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud Web text on any computer with speakers or headphone connections.

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Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History (VIDEO)

2008-06-24T12:10:00.001-07:00

Amazing look into the Lego secret vault, where they store all the Lego sets ever created—4,720 boxes—since 1958: "Maybe that's why visiting Lego's Memory Lane touched me in a way I didn't expect. These were tickets to ride a time portal to emotions and simpler days long forgotten".

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3800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever

2008-06-20T07:56:00.001-07:00

Almost 4,000 pieces of absolute nerdgasmic technological terror now available to order, showing 14 scenes that were in the no-moon during the original trilogy. We have all the official info + three high def photos at every angle of this amazing set, with 21 amazing mini-figs, including Han and Luke dressed up as Lego Imperial Stormtroopers.

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Lego mimics real life [PICS]

2008-06-10T11:44:00.001-07:00

Pictures of lego dudes recreating historic moments.

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Classic Video Game Scenes Recreated in LEGO

2008-06-09T16:09:00.001-07:00

Katamari, Metal Gear, even Duck Hunt!

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Old Paddy, Ravioli and Cheese tasting

2008-06-02T17:15:00.001-07:00

Saturday Suzanne took me on my surprise birthday trip. We headed to Sonoma and started off the day at Roche Winery. We went horseback riding through the vineyard. It was my first horseback riding experience. I'm not counting the ponies when I was a kid. I got to ride good old Patrick (check out the horses here, Paddy is at the bottom of the page). He's 28 but doesn't look a day over 19. Suzanne rode Banjo. Paddy enjoys a slower pace and often fell behind. I wasn't about to push him. After all these years he can stroll as slowly as he likes.

After our trip around the vineyard we did some tasting at Roche (it's an Irish winery and pronounced "roach"). The American Chard was good as was the sneak preview of the new Pinot.

We headed into Sonoma and had lunch at Della Santina's. We had an Antipasti to start off with and a nice bottle of 2005 Pinot from Enkidu. For my main coarse I enjoyed the Ravioli alla Lucchese (kip and spinach filled pasta in a meat and porcini mushroom sauce). Suzanne had one of the lunch specials, pasta in a light mushroom creme sauce. We even had some dessert, Suzanne the Tiramisu and I a rum infused sponge cake with creme. Very tasty.

After lunch we walked a couple of blocks up to Vella Cheese. We tasted a couple of the selections and purchased some Toma and Italian Style Table Cheese (glad we had the cooler with us).

Post cheese tasting lead us to Gundlach Bundschu (site appears to be down at the moment), pronounced gun-lock bun-shoe. It's one of the first wineries established in Sonoma, going back over 150 years. It is in a prime location up against the hills on the border of Sonoma and Napa county lines. They have a nice tasting room. It was crowded at just before closing but we had an excellent attentive pourer.

After Gun Bun we headed back to the square for some Gelato Classico. Suzanne went healthy and chose the Cab sorbet, she regretted it even though it was good.

And that was that. We headed home with a few bottles, some Italian cheese, and a disposable camera. Someone forgot to grab the digital one, despite it being on her list.

Brain-Eating Amoeba Strikes in Summer

2008-05-30T07:57:00.001-07:00

Six young men died last year after swimming in lakes or pools infested with a brain-eating amoeba, the CDC reports.

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Indiana Jones Fan Wed In Temple Of Doom Outfit

2008-05-28T11:46:00.001-07:00

The genial and otherwise normal Kirkland man is a fan-extraordinaire of Indiana Jones and his celebrity alter-ego, Harrison Ford -- and he's got the movie posters, golden fertility idol, Indy pinball machine, miniature Ark of the Covenant, action figures and autographed photos to prove it.

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Woman Married to Berlin Wall For 29 Years

2008-05-28T08:07:00.001-07:00

A woman with a bizarre fetish for inanimate objects has revealed she has been married to the Berlin Wall for 29 years.

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5 Million-Piece LEGO Boulder Chases Indy, Crashes Into Car

2008-05-20T09:24:00.001-07:00

Cool video of a giant boulder (as big as in the movie) made out of five million LEGO pieces, chasing Indiana Jones through the street of San Francisco. People have way too much time in their hands... and we all should be thankful about it.

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10 Deepest Caves in the World

2008-05-19T11:48:00.001-07:00

So what about those caves that create the enigma, that fuel the stuff of legends; caves that appear bottomless and that seem to extend to the very center of the earth? What are the ten deepest caves on our planet?

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California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

2008-05-15T14:08:00.001-07:00

The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.

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78-Year Old Blind Bowler Scores Perfect 300

2008-05-13T07:58:00.001-07:00

As he held his 16-pound bowling ball in his hands and looked down the lane toward the pins standing before him, 78-year-old Dale Davis saw only a blur. He couldn't see the lane. He couldn't see the pins. He couldn't see the people who had gathered behind him to see whether the blind man could accomplish something no one else at this alley ever had.

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The Message of Majora's Mask

2008-05-12T11:00:00.001-07:00

Clues spread throughout the final dungeon of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask hint that there's far more to the story of this Nintendo 64 game than what made it to the surface. An ancient rebellion against the Goddesses of the Triforce may be tied to the falling moon that spells doom for the world of Termina.

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How to Love a LEGO Lunatic

2008-05-12T08:15:00.001-07:00

The look in Jesus' eyes. You may say baleful, but I see your baleful and I raise you pure, unadulterated, naked hurt. A lot of humble pie was eaten that night. I vowed to change, so I came up with a ten-point plan with which to sink my irrational plastic jealousy.

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The World’s Tallest LEGO Tower

2008-05-07T09:30:00.001-07:00

This monster was built in the Legoland Windsor theme park in the U.K. of 500,000 LEGO bricks, and stands just shy of 100 feet high.

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Stunning Lego Creations (PICS)

2008-04-29T08:21:00.001-07:00

Lego is a world mania for sure. From kids to adults, it is the toy of choice to thousands, probably millions of people world wide. And when it comes to cool creations, we find awesome stuff really easy.

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The Housewife Explorers Who Climbed The Himalayas

2008-04-22T11:20:00.001-07:00

What possessed three 1950s housewives to defy convention and set off together for the forbidden reaches of the Himalayas? And what did they find when they got there?

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Idol and Office

2008-04-11T12:15:00.001-07:00

My favorite idol lost out last night, Michael Johns. But the Office made it's return. It wasn't a great episode but good, glad to have it back.

10 forgotten features of Super Mario Kart

2008-04-10T10:13:00.001-07:00

Considering Super Mario Kart is the third biggest selling SNES game of all time, you'd think our memories of it wouldn't be hazy. But, maybe due to its bizarre omission from the Virtual Console, in a recent revisit to the title we were shocked to discover how much we'd forgotten.

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Awesome Mario Paint song! Truly nice work.

2008-04-09T15:31:00.001-07:00

wait for it

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Huge LEGO Yellow Castle Version Is Bigger than Most Flats

2008-04-08T10:19:00.001-07:00

We are fans of huge LEGO things, from airplanes to ships to spacecrafts, but this colossal version of the legendary Legoland Yellow Castle—for some one of the best LEGO sets in history—has to be the best concept we have seen so far. It may look small, but hit the full construction gallery to grasp the full dimension of this massive set.

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Our gas shortage is a LIE! : Businessweek

2008-04-03T12:05:00.001-07:00

Big oil made it up.

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Blind luck helps archer make one-in-a-million shot

2008-03-28T15:35:00.001-07:00

An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind.

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New 1978 Electronic Games

2008-03-28T10:52:00.001-07:00

A host of video and nonvideo electronic games, many using microprocessors, promises the public more stimulating fun for leisure time. [January 1978]

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Earliest Audio Recording Resurrected, Scares Us To Dead

2008-03-28T08:31:00.001-07:00

Audio historian David Giovannoni and scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have discovered and brought back to life the first audio recording ever made, 17 years before Edison's patent. The ten-second snippet was made in a phonoautograph, a device that only recorded sounds but didn't play them back, so they have to do some voodoo

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Inventor of McDonald's Egg McMuffin Has Died

2008-03-27T07:57:00.001-07:00

The man who invented the popular egg sandwich as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's passed away at age 89.

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What Do Recycling Symbols on Plastics Mean?

2008-03-27T07:56:00.001-07:00

Plastic is Everywhere! But, many people don't know there are different grades of plastic, some that are recyclable and some that aren't. For the most part, plastics can be readily recycled, but how do consumers make sense of all the different types and rules?

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Bats Are Dying in Large Numbers and No One Knows Why

2008-03-26T08:08:00.001-07:00

In what is one of the worst calamities to hit bat populations in the United States, on average 90 percent of the hibernating bats in four caves and mines in New York have died since last winter. Bat experts fear that what they call White Nose Syndrome may spell doom for several species that keep insect pests under control.

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