Month: August 2007

[A urinal combined with a video game controlled by stream direction](http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/08/video_game_you_contr.html)

[NASA’s plans for an asteroid interceptor](http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/nasa-draws-up-plans-for-nuke-packing-asteroid-interceptor/).

[Before the current liquidity crisis, one of the banks in online world Second Life had its own liquidity problems](http://wonkette.com/politics/holding-out-for-a-holodeck-dept%27/second-life-economic-collapse-to-offer-preview-of-real+life-economic-collapse-287434.php).

[How to determine wine quality from its colour](http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/determine-a-wines-age-or-quality-by-color-287366.php)

[A brewery shaped like Bender](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/the_bender_brewer_project.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890).

[How to use economics to choose where to eat](http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/an-economists-p.html).

[Make your own bacon](http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/how_to_make_bacon.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890). Pig not provided.

[Showing infants Baby Einstein DVDs (presumably as opposed to actually interacting with them…) may harm language skills](http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/parents-tricked-by-baby-einstein/2007/08/08/1186530417099.html?s_cid=rss_news). Of course, the [corporation that publishes them strongly disagrees](http://consumerist.com/consumer/take-it-back/walt-disney-demands-retraction-from-university-of-washington-over-baby-einstein-video-press-release-289008.php).

[80 text effects for Photoshop](http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/07/22/the-best-80-photoshop-text-effects-on-the-web/).

[The legal issues of *Gilligan’s Isle*](http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/jarvis.htm). Apparently there was once a petition to rename Maui Gilligan’s Isle…