Check out how Biff made his awesome Tiki Fireplace (yes - with real fire in its mouth and smoke coming out of its nose) here: Link.

A village in the Philippine island of Leyte was buried under as deep as 30 feet of mud, with scores confirmed dead and up to 1,500 people missing.

The mudslide came after the region was battered with heavy rain, earthquake, and flash flood.

The farming village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island, 420 miles southeast of Manila, was virtually wiped out, with only a few jumbles of corrugated steel sheeting left to show that the community of some 2,500 people ever existed.

"It sounded like the mountain exploded, and the whole thing crumbled," survivor Dario Libatan told Manila radio DZMM. "I could not see any house standing anymore."

Southern Leyte province Gov. Rosette Lerias said: "There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing."

ABC News Article | St. Louis Post-Dispatch Gallery | CNN Article

A very cool invention - can't wait till it becomes a mainstream application:

These go far beyond the "poking" actions you get with a typical touchscreen, or the gross gesturing found in video-based interactive interfaces. It is a rich area for research, and we are extremely excited by its potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and intuitiveness. It's also just so much fun!

Link - the video will probably load slowly, due to this webpage's insane popularity on the Net now. (Thanks Nick Kochakian!)

Neatorama reader Cathie said:

Peanut Butter Federline is yet another mocking of Kevin Federline in this version of peanut butter jelly time.

It's funny for about 15 seconds, then it's just kinda annoying - but here it is anyhow: Link (Thanks Cathie!)

Noah wants you to visit this website because:

"Its animals in underpants for no reason other than to be funny."

Link (Thanks Noah!)

What do seventh graders think of scientists before and after they meet a real one at the Fermilab?

Link (via Metafilter)

In a twist of the toy-dispensing claw machine, the Love Maine Lobster Claw game has a water-filled tank full of lobsters. For $2, you get a chance to catch your very own lobster.

In Louisiana, Bill Bodin owns two of the machines, which he placed in seafood and Mexican restaurants in Lafayette. The machines do a brisk business, he said, especially when there are lines and people are looking for something to do -- or for their kids to do -- while waiting for a table.

Predictably, PETA is in a boil over this.

Link

Yes, your printer is spying on you, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information.

That's right - that "anonymous memo" you printed on your last printer may not be so anonymous after all...

Link | Xerox DocuColor's Tracking Dots

Checkout more of Ben's artwork here: Link

Assassin Spider. Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences and Hannah Wood of the San Francisco State University discovered 9 new species of the aptly named Assassin spiders, which survive by preying on other spiders. Link

Who says radiators have to be boring? Checkout this artful Droog Design's version: Link (you may have to hunt around a little bit)

Luke Powell took a series of amazing photos on Afghanistan, but this one caught my attention:

Dog Fights are a popular sport in Afghanistan. Dogs fight to settle dominance, and once a dog knows that he cannot win, he yields, he rolls over, bareing his underside, and the match is over.

It may happen that occasionally an ear or a lip gets snagged in a dog fight and the match is a bit bloody, this is why the ears of the dogs are cut short when they are young, but dogs are rarely injured seriously in a supervised fight like this.

http://avalon.unomaha.edu/afghan/afghanistan/dogfights/ad01.htm

Cane toads are a bane for Australians since they were brought over from Hawaii to control pest beetles (turns out the toads were an even bigger problem!).

Scientists perplexed by the toad's increasingly fast invasion rate found out that the toads have evolved longer legs to hop longer distances!

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060215_cane_toad.html

Checkout Nissan's new Star Trek inspired concept car, the Terranaut. Link