[A Brazilian ice-cream company has a competition where you can find an iPod in your ice cream](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/frozen-ipods/ice-cream-company-giving-away-10000-frozen-ipods-inside-popsicles-333129.php). Incredibly clever packaging, a good example of someone not letting the…
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[A beautiful but silly wine decanter](http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/11/27/n2-and-n4-decanters.html). Why silly? Because half the purpose of a decanter is to aerate the wine - after all, sediments are pretty rare in…
From The Onion's week of true stories: ["Gore Wins Oscar, Nobel Peacce Prize for Slide-Show Presentation](http://www.theonion.com/content/news/gore_wins_oscar_nobel_peace_prize?utm_source=onion_rss_daily). The deadpan accuracy of the story is probably the funniest bit.
[A magician does the table cloth trick backwards](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/19/old-table-cloth-tric.html). The whole act is pretty funny, watch the whole thing.
[Caricatures are better than realistic sketches for identifying people](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/caricatures-are-more.html). Memory is a pretty strange thing - this study suggests that adapting to the way it works rather than…
I was listening this morning to a [recent episode](http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticality/069_skepticality.mp3) of the great podcast [Skepticality](http://www.skepticality.com/index.php), and I was very struck by a question host Swoopy asked of interview-ee Michael…
[*Repbulic*, by Charles Sheehan-Miles](http://www.sheehanmiles.com/blogid/2970). Haven't read it yet, so don't know if it's any good. But I like the genre, so I'm optimistic.
[The $US 20,000 halogen-powered siphon bar coffee machine](http://gizmodo.com/347967/the-siphon-bar-pours-20000-cup-of-coffee). No one could possibly think that's excessive for the public service, right? It would definitely be productivity enhancing.
[A jet powered toaster that can toast bread in 50 seconds](http://gizmodo.com/335843/turbo-toaster-prototype-jet-engines-your-toast). I believe I agree with Homer Simpson when i say: 50 seconds? But I want it now!.
[Pen fork and spoon attachments for your pen](http://gizmodo.com/347964/pen+top-utensils-shut-down-humanity-its-reached-its-peak). I agree with Gizmodo - the peak of all human achievement has now been reached.