In a series of photos from Life magazine, the owner of the famous Stork Club in Manhattan demonstrates some of the hand signals he used to communicate with his staff.

The coolest video you will see today. A series of images from the former Deep Impact Spacecraft looking back at Earth, as the Moon passes in front of (transits) our Little Blue Planet. The result provides a previously unseen perspective of our little home in space. Amazing.

These are the greatest snow globes ever! Not that I'm a big fan of snow globes. Mostly they tend to be chintzy pieces of tourist crap. But THESE are beautiful, and delightfully creepy.

"That picture has obviously been photoshopped!" That's the rallying cry of the forum nerd for whom any evidence is suspect, and who apparently has intuitive image analysis abilities beyond those of the average viewer. Well, here's how the experts determine a photo is fake.

A picture's worth a thousand words. Pictures taken by a wedding photographer before, during, and after the massive earthquake in China. Talk about a wedding you'll never forget.

Bathsheba Sculpture features sculpture created by 3-D printing in metal. This allows the creation of complex shapes, including mathematically-derived structures.

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Using a plug-in for Firefox, PMOG converts your daily web surfing into ongoing, real-time, social play. Plant mines for unsuspecting surfers. Install portals to interesting sites. Create missions for others to complete. Just clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency. more inside

It's pudding. Shaped like breasts. Only in Japan would you be able to buy milk-flavored pudding in the shape of a jiggly breast, topped with a cherry or vanilla "nipple". Oh, and did I mention the packaging is designed to look like a topless woman?

An Editorial in Biological Psychiatry takes a stand for medical research, and against acts of terrorism that target medical researchers. The 87 authors of the editorial say they wish to not only declare their stance against these increasingly violent acts, but also to emphasize the important role of non-human primate research.

Museum of the Improbable The Museum of the Improbable was a collection of original, limited-edition, science-fiction and fantasy-themed 3D models. From mid-2005 to mid-2006, the models were available for sale and download. As of June 2006, the models are no longer for sale.