[A floating globe of Earth](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/earth-toy/electro+magnetic-world-spins-of-its-own-accord-280586.php)
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[An online RPG that gives XP for doing chores](http://kotaku.com/gaming/oddities/chore-wars-makes-work-fun-280200.php)
[What happens when you drop 100 wallets](http://www.bored.com/wallets/). ([Via](http://www.economics.com.au/?p=992))
[A box for a Plasma TV that turns into a not-too-ugly stand](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/finally/first-useful-tv-packaging-in-history-transforms-into-a-tv-stand-279659.php).
[Build your own Apple 1 replica](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/vintage_computer_kits.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).
[Make a Link (as in Zelda) from Lego](http://www.joystiq.com/2007/07/17/make-yourself-a-link-from-legos/).
[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).
As you may (possibly) have heard by now, there's now a movie version of the The Simpsons TV series. The plot is pretty simple: Homer does something stupid,…
A [guide to exactly why political campaigns cost so much](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12011541).