Turn your marketing message into an engaging, entertaining, interactive experience with a simple “flip-of-a-thumb“.

I kind of liked “Tide Wins” and “Kyle Petty vs. “The Stagecoach”.

Ok, I like anything NASCAR.

Make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles.

Start with something simple, like a laser communicator, and work your way up to a plastic hydrogen bomb.

In 4000 B.C., Babylonians played a board game that was probably the ancestor of chess and checkers. Stone yo-yos were first used in ancient Greece around 1000 B.C. Kites appeared in China around the same time, though historians speculate that they have probably been flown since before recorded history.

The 20th century saw the invention of dozens of much-loved toys as well. Still-popular board games like Tripoley, Sorry and Monopoly have been around since the 1930s, and Crayola Crayons are more than 100 years old!

Possibly the most well known of all cipher machines is the German Enigma. It became the workhorse of the German military services, used to encrypt tens of thousands of tactical messages throughout World War II. The number of mathematical permutations for every keystroke is astronomical.

Lots of pics at the Virtual Enigma Museum.

Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! Bob, Joe, Ted, and Ann spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.

Bob, Ted, Ann, and Joe each come with one 2-3/4″ posable plastic figure and all the necessary plastic parts to build a classic corporate cube: four walls, desk, chair, file cabinet, in/out box, phone, and computer. Comes with a sticker sheet of decor for your cube, complete with graphs, charts, screens for the computer and pithy office posters. Also includes a job title sticker sheet so you can create a convoluted and meaningless position for your employee (how about Level C Systems Associate? Or Senior Accounting Coordinator?). Each additional set comes with the figures noted, plus character specific accessories.

Collect all eight to build your own corporate labryinth.

Dressed for intense classroom action, this Albert Einstein Action Figure stands with a piece of chalk in his hand, poised to explain relativity or do battle with the forces of entropy. Fits in nicely with any office, cube or dorm decor and features realistic disheveled hair!

The ultimate utilitarian desktop accessory. Its vibrant red color stands out amongst the grays and beiges that consume office space. The sleek, smooth retro lines. The sheer weight. The precise, solid movement. The mechanics. The thick, dense sound as paper is conjoined…

I’m Ed Fink, and these are my 360 degree panoramas. I believe I’m the first VR photographer in the world to do full spherical (180 x 360) panoramas from a helicopter.

Get a firm grip on your chair and see for yourself how my 360 degree aerial panoramas can be used as a powerful planning tool for cities and developers or just a simple “photo map” to show off your property from a unique vantage point. Developers can show buyers or investors the scenic view from the 30th floor of their new high rise condo – before construction starts!

Check out the beautiful views of the Twin Cities – with clickable picture-in-picture.

See if you can find the awesome kid on the bridge at the Weisman Art Museum.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has been handing millions of dollars to state governments for GPS-tracking pilot projects designed to track vehicles wherever they go.

What’s raising eyebrows, though, is the increasingly popular law enforcement practice of secretly tagging Americans’ vehicles without adhering to the procedural safeguards and judicial oversight that protect the privacy of homes and telephone conversations from police abuses.

GPS tracking–even when bugs are installed by police armed with a court order–can be imperfect. One bug used by police to track convicted murderer Scott Peterson sometimes developed glitches that showed him driving at about 30,000 miles per hour.

An even more creative method of vehicle tracking arose when the FBI used such a system for audio eavesdropping. OnStar and other remote assistance products permit passengers to call an operator for help in an emergency. The FBI realized the feature could be useful for bugging a vehicle and remotely activated it to eavesdrop on what passengers were saying.

Jeff and Juhan began flying in the mid-80s. We brought our 8mm camera to the field to document our flights. Our planes wouldn’t last long and any images we captured were probably the last.

I really like their On-Board Videos. These guys know how to have fun.

Home of the original/authentic Captain America Bike.

Labor Day weekend not only featured the celebration of Harley-Davidson’s 100th Anniversary in Milwaukee, WI, it reunited Peter Fonda with his original Captain America bike! Surrounded by curious motorcycle enthusiasts, Fonda signed authenticity papers stating that the Captain America bike – currently on display at the National Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame in Anamosa, Iowa – is the only original, authentic Captain America motorcycle in existence. He also autographed the bikes gas tank.

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My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things up to my goal of a house. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005.

This red paperclip is currently sitting on my desk next to my computer. I want to trade this paperclip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot.

If you promise to make the trade I will come and visit you, wherever you are, to trade.

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I’m going to make a continuous chain of ‘up trades’ until I get a house. Or an Island. Or a house on an island. You get the idea.

This morning Rawnie and Corinna from Vancouver called me up and offered to make a trade of their fish pen for the paperclip. Ronnie and Corinna are Vegans.
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Rawnie found the pen camping and was sad to see it go, but was pretty stoked on her new paperclip.
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I’m pumped on having the pen, but in the name of the game, it’s gotta go too.

So, please get back to me if you’re down with trading me something bigger and better than a wooden fish pen to get yourself the said pen.

He’s made a lot of trades since the Fish Pen. I think he might make it!