In Japan, we eat soy all the time. For breakfast we have rice with natto and miso soup with tofu; for dinner we pop edamame into our mouths in between… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Natto

A new video game called Mass: We Pray brings new family fun to those who can't wait until Sunday to go to church. It has a cross-shaped motion-sensing controller reminiscent… Read the rest of the article: New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven

For his latest project, British art director Adam Richardson used Photoshop to superimpose Space Invader characters onto pics he took in Afghanistan and Iraq. Adam Richardson main page via NotCot

A new conservative children's book titled Help! Mom! The Radicals Are Ruining My Country! prominently features Nancy Pelosi as an evil villain. Author Katharine DeBrecht, whom you may have seen… Read the rest of the article: Conservative children's book vilifies Nancy Pelosi

A 20-year old Shanghai woman of mixed race has sparked a discussion about race in China. Lou Jing is half black; she was raised by a Chinese mother and speaks… Read the rest of the article: Lou Jing, half black Chinese girl, sparks race debate in China

Brian Lam showed me this amazing short video yesterday. It chronicles an encounter that National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen had with a giant leopard seal in Antarctica who, over the… Read the rest of the article: Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins

On a scorching hot June day in northeastern Kenya, an hour west of the Kenyan-Somali border, Leila Chirayath Janah arrived at the Dabaab refugee settlement in an armed convoy. She… Read the rest of the article: Samasource: How African refugees are scoring Silicon Valley Internet jobs

This crazy-looking dress, created by two designers in London for the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, is made of silk chiffon and 24,000 full color LEDs. It's called… Read the rest of the article: Dress made with 24,000 LEDs

Photo: ndevil I got my Dell Mini10V in the mail yesterday. It's small and red and pretty, but I had one minor issue with my order. When I was personalizing… Read the rest of the article: An evening of confusion with Dell customer service

A strapped-for-cash middle school in North Carolina is selling test points to students for $20.

This is not a book. It's a fabulous little clutch purse that looks like a book cover made by Olympia LeTan. via Kottke.org

This funny soap dispenser promises to wash away all sins. Undergrowth Design via NotCot

John Allan Muhammad, best known for killing 10 people in the 2002 DC-area sniper shootings, will be executed at 9PM today in Virginia.

A new study on "partner abandonment" has found that a woman is six times more likely to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple sclerosis… Read the rest of the article: Study suggests women's illness leads to partner abandonment more often than men's

The product designers over at MintPass have created these concept designs for real life calculators that look just like the calculators that pop up on a Windows or Mac OS… Read the rest of the article: Real calculators modeled after desktop calculators

I was driving along the San Francisco waterfront one morning when a sign on a white tent in the Marina Green parking lot caught my eye. It said Reactt: The… Read the rest of the article: One morning in a fitness boot camp

Somebody has made the dreamy floating wonderworld from the Oscar-nominated Hayao Miyazaki film Howl's Moving Castle out of Lego. The details are quite impressive, and blogging about this is making… Read the rest of the article: Howl's Moving Castle made out of Lego

You spend a lot of time online. Maybe it comes with the job. Maybe your idea of a perfect weekend is to be perched in front of your computer reading… Read the rest of the article: Advisor: Are you an Internet addict?

Next year, the UK's Royal Mail will sell 1st class stamps that feature images of 10 famous British album covers. The postal service collaborated with music mag editors and design… Read the rest of the article: UK stamps to feature famous album covers

James Kuhn is a Michigan-based artist who likes to paint his own face in the most intricate, creative ways. I love the one where he puckers up to represent a… Read the rest of the article: Face painting art