@rt pointed me to the artist (Terry Allen) and poet (Philip Levine) for this bronze sculpture titled "Corporate Head for Business" Link | Poet’s Walk

Get straight to the point with ThinkGeek’s Abusive Stamps.

Break out your inner BOFH and let your true feelings come forth, into an ink pad, and onto some paper. All without the safety of using acronyms! It’s absolutely cathartic. Some tasks in the workplace are just so unbelievably prosaic and pointless that it’s only fair you occasionally are enabled to call a spade a spade. And you get to do so using advanced language skills in the process!

Link

Checkout Woody Norris’ and Jim Barnes’ AirScooter II here: Link

A contrite French thief returned a relic stolen from a Norwegian museum 42 years ago.

The problem is, the Norwegians didn’t know it was missing and still don’t know what exactly it is!

Link

Checkout a great collection of retro video game-inspired art at I AM 8-BIT website.

Danielle Manges wouldn’t let her 3-year old son James play the claw machine at her local Wal-Mart to win toys.

So, James got mad, threw his juice bottle for diversion and climbed in the hole, pushed the door shut, and played inside the machine until firefighters got him out.

Firefighters thought the call meant the boy had reached inside the machine and gotten his arm stuck or something like that, said Anthony Coleman, one of the Elkhart Fire Department people on the call.

Then they walked into the store and saw the boy in the machine. "He was swinging from a bar, jumping around; he was having a ball," Coleman said.

Link

On a related note: If you can’t win at those infernal toy grabber / claw machines (like me), it’s obviously your fault, since Norman Wirth and Roy Kaylor win every time!

Barrett Lyon’s Opte Project maps the Internet in a single day (OK, if you want to get technical, they traceroute to each class C network instead of mapping every single IP address).

Why do this? Barrett’s answer:

This project started as a bet, but after I warmed up to the idea I found a lot of value in the project itself:

- Mapping the Internet weekly will allow us to see major disasters in different parts of the world. The Internet is a huge disasters sensor. If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destroyed. The idea of a metaphysical representation of the real world is very interesting to me.
- The project can show the Internet growth.
- The project is art.

Link (via Reality Carnival)