• Pearls before breakfast.  A fascinating article about a world famous musician busking with a $3.5m Stradivarius.  How much would he make? Would he be recognized?
• A Japanese contestant on a game-show called Ninja Warrior. He has near spiderman-like abilities, this has to be seen to be believed.
• Students at the University of California, Santa Clara, decorate their building in a classic Nintendo style.
• 100,000 North Korean’s used as a giant television. Communism at its best.

Wikipedia is a gold mine of useful and useless information, depending on your opinion. Recently, I’ve found the following interesting:

• The official rules of shotgun – sure to settle many an arguement
• The Schmidt Pain Index, which compares the pain of different types of insect bites
• Deal or no deal, because some daytime television is fantastic
• The Golden Ratio, otherwise known as Phi

I’m still amazed at the level of detail of some the articles.

Also:

• A intricate and extremely well done time lapse. Very, very clever.
• Egg stacker. Never thought I’d write that..
• Buddhist Sand Art, created then dismantled to demonstrate the transience of life
• How to draw the Mona Lisa in MS Paint via Kottke
• The Chinese family who refused to sell their home to developers have finally given in.
• Ten things your restaurant will not tell you.  Sometimes its better to know.

Worthwhile links, as I’m too busy studying for my finals:

• 28 Weeks Later is the sequel to the brilliant 28 Days Later. It’s arriving soon: 11th May in the UK. Apple has the trailer.
• WTFCNN is a site with one job, to spot and report the odities that make it to the front page of CNN.com. Odities include “Bono Knighted; son thinks he’s a Jedi”, “Center banned from using cattle prod on man” and “Million-dollar Ferrari goes ker-smack”.
• A Russian gangster has built the world’s tallest log cabin. He’s now penniless, but he gets to play in a castle all day long.. via bb
• Type for you, for the fontographers everywhere.