Quickhit

[The best press picture of 1980](http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=184&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high).

[And why good movies can't have alternate endings](http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2007/07/alternate-endin.html).

A [guide to exactly why political campaigns cost so much](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12011541).

[A Japanese designed table clock that works by tilting](http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/07/watchismo-times_16.html)

[Ten ripoffs of American culture by overseas studios](http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2229). My favourite: the Bollywood jaws with musical shark attack scene.

[The most accurate watch ever made](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/the-time-is-nigh/now-watch-is-always-right-278824.php).

[A kinetic giant squid sculpture](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/giant_squid_kinetic_sculp.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

Researchers at MIT have come up with a [TV remote based on hand signals](http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/15/gesture-based-television-control-developed/).

How to turn a $2 pen [into a Mont Blanc](http://www.instructables.com/id/EWAMSPFFCKEP2871N2/).

A 1934 computer [made from Meccano](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/15/computer_built_from_.html).