These beautiful crayons are made with an array of colorful edible ingredients including marshmallows, dried bananas, bee pollen, and wild sesame. Want.

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In this terrifying video, a four year old boy playfully climbs up the outside of a mall escalator and falls from a height of about 15 feet. A shopkeeper was… Read the rest of the article: Boy falls off escalator in Turkey

In the future, we could all become walking computer viruses, according to Reading scientist Mark Gasson. Gasson is supposedly the first human being to be infected with a computer virus.

Neatorama points us to an interesting fact about the movie Airplane! — it's essentially a remake of a 50s flick called Zero Hour!. You can see some side by side… Read the rest of the article: Airplane! side by side with original 50s flick

You can now buy dried zombie meat at your local convenience store in Japan. The packaging claims it contains blue flesh aged to perfection in the graveyard. via Pink Tentacle

In case you haven't seen this already, it's a video of a guy playing Neil Diamond's Crackling Rosie on a Phoneguitar, or a guitar made out of five smart phones… Read the rest of the article: Crackling Rosie played on a guitar made of smart phones

There's a new book about Japan called Drainspotting. It's based on a blog by Remo Camerota, and features lots of colorful, beautiful photos of manhole covers. Manhole covers are art… Read the rest of the article: Drainspotting, a book about Japanese manholes

Akino Kondoh is one of my favorite video artists from Japan. I posted her most famous video, Ladybugs' Requiem, a couple of years ago. This one, called Maybe It's the… Read the rest of the article: Akino Kondoh video featuring b&w body-less children

I don't read Spanish, unfortunately, but apparently you can download, print, and make your own paper digital trash can at the designer's web site. via Designboom

Martin Gardner, a pioneer in modern recreational mathematics and inventor of popular math games, has died. For thirty years, he penned a math games column in Scientific American (you can… Read the rest of the article: RIP Martin Gardner

13-year old Jordan Romero became the youngest person to ever summit Mt. Everest today. Romero completed the climb with his dad, his girlfriend, a trusty team of Sherpas; since they… Read the rest of the article: 13-year old boy becomes youngest to summit Everest

In case you haven't seen it already… Google has turned its home page banner into a playable Pacman board for the game's 30th anniversary. Just insert a coin!

A sex shop in the Netherlands is giving away 2,000 free condoms this weekend, each with a wrapper carrying an image of the pope.

Passion fruit has quickly made its way up to the top of my favorite-fruits-to-eat-raw list. Inside the semi-hard yellow shell is a swarm of gooey seeds reminiscent of tadpole eggs;… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Passion fruit

Male antelopes trick female antelopes to increase their chances of having sex with them, a new study conducted by the University of Liverpool has found. The study of topi antelopes… Read the rest of the article: How male antelopes increase their chances of sex

Today is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and cities all over the country are having events to raise awareness and funds. One major public health issue among… Read the rest of the article: Today is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Connected // Global Brain Series // Self Portrait // 2010 Steel, CAT5 and other data cables by Kasey McMahon

Designer Natalie Montgomery proposes this classy alternative to carrying around to-do lists: a charm braceletchain with different charms for different tasks. My to-do list is a bit more complicated than… Read the rest of the article: Charm chain doubles as a to-do list

60-year old Pam Robson was fined 50GBP for picking up the wrong dog poop while walking her dog. "I felt as if my integrity was being questioned," Robson told the… Read the rest of the article: Woman fined for picking up the wrong dog's poop