Okay, I'm just going to dump a bunch of puzzles I found:
Road Blocks, which has nothing to do with road blocks, and everything to do with linear thinking.
Reflections: play with lenses, prisms, and LASERs. That last part isn't exciting; it's just an acronym.
FreeNet. Fix networks. As if doing that in real life weren't bad enough.
Grid-lock, and the closely-related Rush Hour (hat-tip: Bryan)
Can Superman have children? What problems did he face as an adolescent? Larry Niven has answers.
(Hat-tip: David Adesnik)
20050310 Update: Superman has not always been such a boy scout. Also, Spidey was touched as a child. (Dammit, can't find the link. Okay, here's a transcript.) Also, Spidey loves Jesus. (Hat-tip: styro)
It's always a good idea to verify what your tattoo with asian letters means, lest you wind up with something wimpy, like "some pig".
Surely you've seen the "Support Our Troops" magnetic ribbons stuck on cars. And where there is a proud patriot, there is a cynic or three to make fun of him:
We support the guy in china selling these idiotic magnets.
Support the magnetic ribbon industry!, or better yet, How many soldiers per gallon is your car getting?.
To follow up on extreme ironing, there are now other mundane "extreme" sports:
Sick of hearing about The Gates?
Enjoy a whole new piece of art: The Crackers. Is it art? Or is it duck-feed?
(Hat-tip: Sivacracy)
Move your square around, and eat other squares.
Or move your square around and dodge other objects.
A dactyl is a foot of poetry (ON-off-off). A double-dactyl is two of them in a row. It is also a specific kind of poem that employs some pretty rigid rules. It has to have two stanzas, a proper noun that is a double-dactyl, a six-syllable word that is a double-dactyl, you get the picture. Here are the rules, in a self-referential poem:
Long-short-short, long-short-short
Dactyls in dimeter,
Verse form with choriambs
(Masculine rhyme):One sentence (two stanzas)
Hexasyllabically
Challenges poets who
Don't have the time.
Heaps more at Alex Chaffee's Double Dactyl page.
A taxonomy of net-flamers.
3M has published a steb-by-step guide to making a wallet out of duct tape. (h/t Boing-Boing)
O'Reilly is hosting a blog devoted entire to making stuff. Cool!