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If you haven't participated in this week's Math Craft project on the platonic solids, maybe this will inspire you to do so.

Here's a quick video of a cool looking caterpillar walking.  I didn't have any macro lenses with me at the time...so this is at about 300 mm (35mm equivalent) from about 12 to 18 inches away.

This is really cool. I tried it and it works pretty well for the price. It isn't as good as the winning prize, but can help you get to it!

Improve your bingo skills with a roundup of this week's Scrabble Bingo of the Days. What exactly is a bingo? It's when a player empties his or her rack in one turn, placing all seven of their letters on the board to create a word that's at least seven letters long.

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Not only am I not the only one, but I'm not the only one saying I'm not the only one!

OK, most of us remember the Super Soaker series of squirt guns. Probably all of us. What I didn't really know is that there are hardcore enthusiasts out there who have taken the whole thing to another level.

This is what happens when grad students start playing with PVC pipe.  This stuff is really cool for prototype robotics applications.  This article is a how-we-did-it as opposed to a how-to, but if you've got all of the crazy instrumentation and software that they do, you can start to play on levels that a lot of us (myself included) can't even imagine.

Game design is sedentary work. Generally its practitioners do their work with their butts planted securely in front of a computer in an office (be it home or away) as their muscles and verbal skills atrophy. Even game journalists are prone to this condition. Not so with Colin and Sarah Northway (pictured below), the husband and wife team behind NORTHWAY Games. Not only do they make really cool indie games, but they do it with just a laptop while traveling the world meeting indie developers of...

Here's my version of his icosahedron:

This is a cool thing that shows how to make a remote controlled submarine with a camera attached.  If you live near a large body of water, you should make one of these.

This is more of an op-ed piece that is only loosely tied to this world in the sense that what he built involved PVC.  What I like about it is it sheds light on what I call the New Poverty.  That is, the fact that the plastic and fully automatic world of developed nations impoverishes our creative spirit.  It impoverishes the human spirit in a way that you find the New Wealth in places like drought starved Africa.

Not all of these are PVC, but there is some serious design action going on here.  This is not your average.  A lot of the projects out there, mine included, have a childish, do it yourself-ish feel to them.  These eleven designs are slick, beautiful and professional.

The "slide-together" paper construction method is a fun and satisfying way to build 3D geometric objects. It only requires paper, scissors or an exacto knife, and some patience.

I love to make works of art from leftover pieces of pipe.  This person shows a sensibility and execution that I can't touch.

Strange as it may seem to super urban people, certain animals, like coyotes, have high reproduction rates and can be a true menace to ranching.  Even in the county where I live, which is home to Colorado Springs, there is a $30 bounty on coyotes.  All you have to do is bring in both ears to the game warden, and you will be paid.

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Nicholas Entertainment Group (NEG) is a Polish independent game publisher that recently got their hands dirty with development. Their first game (with Intoxicate Studios) is the forthcoming horror first-person shooter Afterfall: InSanity, which comes out next month—dangerously close to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 and Assassin's Creed Revelations release dates. That's some stiff competition for small company, especially since it's a $35 debut game.

This is the personal blog for the maker of the Monster Tubulum.  The section this link is pointing to is the FAQ's for people who want to build their own PVC instruments.

I'm new here, but wanted to add formufit to the list of links on your cork board.  They are solely sellers of structural PVC items, used to build greenhouses and such.  I am currently building some outdoor PVC furniture as the weather here in Missouri has destroyed our previous 'durable store bought' furniture.  I saw some other resources on here, but I just bought a slew of products from formufit.com and I thought I would share.  I will post some photos of the completed furniture soon.

Ogilvy & Mather are no amateurs when it comes to Scrabble. They may not play the game, but they sure know how to promote it. The prestigious advertising and marketing agency has created several videocommercials for Mattel, not to mention over 60 amazing print adverts that are funny, hip and sometimes salaciously naughty.

I know it's late but I love the photo.

PayPal has, all in all, been great for allowing Web 2.0 economy to grow. For most entities, it's the best way to send money between two people on the internet.

The Netherlands are a hotbed of indie game development, which seems appropriate for such a brilliant and eccentric little nation. Two man Dutch indie developer Vlambeer have found themselves in the news more often than most companies of their size, thanks to two great games and a third on the way.

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There's been a proliferation of pitched PVC xylophones in recent times, but a lot of them end up being somewhat cumbersome when it comes to actually get good sound quality. This guy has come up with the solution by making strange drum skins over the ends of the pipes. The result is a super cool sound coming out of a ridiculously cool-looking instrument.