Robo-Monkey. From WowWee comes a talking robotic chimpanzee head. video

Secret wall tatoos. The next time you stay in a hotel, check behind the so called art on the wall. You might find some real art underneath. (via Jorn)

Flashlight Museum. The internets are filled with obscure museums and other oddities, so perhaps this should not have surprised me. It links to a history of flashlights. One early flashlight looked like one of its predecessors, the candle. The 2005 Flashlight Collectors Convention occurs May 13 and 14 in Santa Ana, CA.

The original binary code. Morse code beats text messaging in speed test. A 93 year old former telegraph operator smoked a 13 year old text messaging opponent in a speed test. This reminds me of an old math teacher who delighted in beating us in speed tests of slide rule versus a calculator. Email still beats USPS though.

Revenge of the fired Walmart worker. Guy takes job at Walmart, other employees set him up and he is fired, guy takes revenge in a rather creative fashion.

The Depression Era Cultural Landscape: UVA has put an incredible museum of 1930's culture online. They have comics: including Krazy Kat, SuperMan and Buck Rogers; radio broadcasts: including Jack Benny, and The Lone Ranger; and film clips: including Duck Soup, The Thin Man, and Citizen Kane plus documentaries of the era.

A puzzling timewaster - find the text in the images and move through the stages. The first stage or two are easy, but then things start getting tough.

The way we used to cook. A huge pdf collection of cookbooks from the turn of the century and a collection of antique cooking tools from MSU. It includes one from Fanny Farmer, a book about Chinese and Japanese cooking from 1914, the Manual for Army Cooks circa 1896, and E.E. Kellog’s "Science in The Kitchen" (remember The Road to Wellville movie?).