Author: robert

[An Ektch-A-Sketch converted into a digital clock](http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/08/etch-a-sketch-clock-automatically-draws-redraws-time/). Makes me wonder what a creative mind could do with a spirograph.

[The candidates as AD&D monsters](http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/03/politics_as_she_is_played.html). A little bit too balanced, actually. I rather suspect these would work well to play…

[Steven Levy loses his new laptop](http://www.newsweek.com/id/120052/output/print): >As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers. Given the usual state of my home office, this doesn’t actually make me more likely to buy one…

[The story of one of the greatest heists of all time](http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/thebankjob/large.html). I love a good heist movie, and this one looks like it has some fun conspiracy theory stuff added on over the top of it all.

[The latest take-off from the makers of *Scary Movie* and *The Naked Gun*](http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/superheromovie/trailer1/). If you have any thought that it’s possible for these people to be funny, watch the trailer. It’s one of the most horrible things I have **ever** seen.

[A table with built in marble runs](http://gizmodo.com/361344/marbelous-table-provides-fun-and-distraction-in-marble-form). Please buy me one of these, work. I promise I won’t be completely distracted by shiny marbles all day long.

[How different cultures around the world count money](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1098393/how_people_count_cash/). Someone once demonstrated that differences in the way people rolled cigarettes were driven by tax policy. It’s probably the same here.

[Using lies to engage students](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/my-favorite-lia.html) I think this is a good idea. But maybe I’m lying…

[The comic Garfield with everyone but the character Jon deleted](http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/) It’s incredible, really. It totally transforms the comic, but it still works.