The Cove, the provocative film that documented the hidden dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Japan, made its Japan debut at the Tokyo International Film Festival this week, and director Louie Psihoyos… Read the rest of the article: The Cove director on watching his film with the dolphin hunters

Gaming blog UK Resistance has obtained several present-day photos of a depressingly bare, archaic video game arcade in Pyongyang. The person who took and submitted the photos chose to remain… Read the rest of the article: Rare photos of a North Korea amusement arcade

This article about a farmer in Ohio who grew creepy pumpkins with human faces on them was apparently in the January 1938 issue of Popular Science. via Modern Mechanix

Pink Tentacle has found several great images of what a 1969 edition of the Japanese comic magazine Shonen Sunday called Computopia — a future in which computers will teach our… Read the rest of the article: Computopia, a circa 1969 vision of the future from Japan

In an interview with True/Slant, the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA admits to being a geek; in fact, he claims that geekyness played an integral part of hip-hop history. This video is… Read the rest of the article: RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan: "We geeks man, we geeks!"

Vic Mizzy, the composer best known for writing The Addams Family theme song, died of heart failure on Saturday at the age of 93. Mizzy was a prolific musician who… Read the rest of the article: Vic Mizzy, composer of Addams Family theme song, has died

In response to the boy-in-a-hot-air-balloon fiasco of last week, SFGate has a story about a contractor in Marin who really did get whisked off by a hot air balloon 45… Read the rest of the article: The boy who survived an accidental hot air balloon flight in 1964

ThinkGeek has these fun maternity t-shirts perfect for parents who want their kids to be labeled as geeks even before they are born. I love the Loading… Please Wait design… Read the rest of the article: Geeky maternity t-shirts

Forensic art for finding lost kids

The Pew Research Center has an interactive map that shows marriage and divorce rates in the United States. The adjacent report, released this weekend, has some interesting statistics for trivia-hounds;… Read the rest of the article: Map shows US marriage and divorce rates

A Seattle couple celebrated their wedding recently with this stylish Zombie Wedding cake, complete with a chainsaw-toting bride and bloody guests modeled after real attendees. It seems that the pair… Read the rest of the article: Zombie-themed wedding

In response to a post I wrote earlier about Maywa Denki president Nobumichi Tosa's depiction of Engadget Man, Boing Boing reader RogueModron has created a solder-gun-carrying, motor-oil-haired Makezine man. But… Read the rest of the article: Illustration of Makezine Man

A parish leader in Hammond, Louisiana is in the hot seat with the ACLU for refusing to grant a marriage license to a mixed race couple. Keith Bardwell of Tangipahoa… Read the rest of the article: Parish leader denies marriage license to interracial couple

In anticipation of his upcoming performance at the Engadget party that was held last night in Tokyo, artist/performer Nobumichi Tosa of Maywa Denki drew this charming illustration of what he… Read the rest of the article: Illustration of the Engadget Man by Maywa Denki

Save space the Japanese way

One lingering kitchen storage dilemma I've always had is how to store my spices. I used to have one of those big rotating systems, but it took up too much… Read the rest of the article: Zero gravity spice rack for crowded kitchens

The German town of Straubing is hosting an art exhibit by Ottmar Hörl consisting of 1,250 black plastic and shiny gold garden gnomes doing the Hitler salute. Hörl means for… Read the rest of the article: Artsy Nazi gnomes, on display and for sale

Giant underwater logging machine

Running with gravity