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First Branston Pickle, now lard. Seriously, what is the world coming to?

Well… Not quite. Actually it’s another crazy golf, but it’s a good one…

Artist Chris Cobb has reordered the books in an entire shop according simply to the colour of the spine… One very bored and wet weekend I tried this with my own books (along with size the following weekend - nothing like a compulsive sorting disorder, huh?)… Didn’t have quite the same effect as doing it to an entire bookshop though.
Found at mefi

I was wondering what we were going to put on the living room walls.

Thanks to monoman for pointing me at ebay’s new service - pulse.ebay.com where you can find a snapshot of the highest priced, most watched, most popular items from each and all categories… And how else would I have found this:

You are bidding on a box of objects that when used/combined/altered in the right way may either open a wormhole or create access to a parallel universe for the purposes of time travel. The objects have not been tested and there is no reason for me to believe they may do as I claim they possibly might as I have no experience with time travel nor do I know what will be placed in the box at this point.

Neural net plays 20 questions (and does pretty well as well)
Found at lovely lovely herd of nerds

Now this is a really nice use of Amazon Web Services. Play Top Trumps for any genre of music. Or create your own…

This is a rather neat idea (thanks again to Martin for pointing it out - it’s a little more savoury than your last link!)… A map of all the places I’ve been… Make your own here.

Sometimes horseplay can go a little far!
Thanks (I think) to Martin for this one

Everyone’s got a story about their Chemistry teacher throwing a small piece of Sodium into a bowl of water… The resulting bang is the sort of thing that gets teenage boys exciting about the subject. Sodium Party takes it to its logical extreme… Take one lake, 3.5 pounds of Sodium (purchased off Ebay!) and….

There are loads of videos on the site, but it’s fairly slow. If you can’t be arsed watching them all at least watch this one. It’s very good.