
Following up on Mark's earlier post about the fancy owl tape measure, here's Gama-Go's brand spankin' new Tape Measure. It's $8.

The little octopus picks up two halves of a coconut shell and carries them across the ocean floor with her suckers. Suddenly, startled, she drops the shell halves and dives inside. Like a lot of you, I watched that video and wondered, "Just how smart are cephalopods, anyway?" Turns out, on a sca... More.
From New Scientist: "An augmented reality system that makes walls transparent could prevent road accidents." Augmented reality system lets you see through walls ... More.
Ed Felten from the Freedom to Tinker blog has written a post with Princeton senior Sauhard Sahi called Census of Files Available via BitTorrent. The survey takes a random sample of files available on a trackerless BitTorrent system. The article is full of caveats--discussion happening in the comme... More.
Some 400 giant squid have shown up along the Orange County coast in Southern California since Friday. Some are as large as 4 feet long, and 60 pounds. The photo of the guy who's just killed one makes me sad.... More.
An individual posting to the forums on HouseRepairTalk.com reports recurring problems with a strange and motivated plant that takes root under their toilet and grows into the drain pipe. From the forum: Over the past few months, the toilet would drain slowly. We plunged, we snaked, we blew out... More.
This just begs to be made into an Instructable.