The Ig Nobel Prize winners for 2012

BBC Four - The Joy of Stats Dynamic graphing of wealth and health in 200 nations across 200 years. more inside

Lightning slowed down 300 times. The whole video happened in a third of a second. more inside

xkcd had a cartoon about Tetris recently called "hell". Now someone has made that game a reality in flash. more inside

Disappearing car doors (SLYT) are a neat design concept. more inside

Send Me Something is a very sparse web site that promises to "Send you something". That's it. more inside

"Their circular life" shows five scenes from Northern Italy (with background sounds) which are animated for a 24 hour period by turning a dial. more inside

The Longest Poem in the World is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting pairs that rhyme. more inside

Do blind people prefer blondes? This Beeb magazine article was insightful for me. more inside

Scrabble against the clock A Sunday time-waste game. more inside

Kutiman mixes YouTube. YouTube videos of various musicians playing alone have been sampled and assembled into seven multi-part tracks. more inside

PETER FUNCH took photos of the same places in Manhattan over 10 days or more and combined them invisibly, collecting together similar people, in an exhibition called Babel Tales. SEGEI LARENKOV combined photos from the siege of Leningrad, overlaying them onto modern shots taken 65 years later, from exactly the same locations. (Caution: contains corpses). more inside

Monkeydamus: Predictions for 2009 Curious Prophetic George - Any Predictions for 2009? more inside

40 Creative Lamp Designs (via StumbleUpon) more inside

When Album Covers Attack. YouTube. Maybe NSFW. Gratuitous gore. more inside

Caption this pic. Write a caption for this picture... more inside

Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine in interactive click and drag form. more inside