Another presidential requirement... they can't have served two terms already. And the merry-go-round thing is just cheating.

Why would you weed out 'totally competent' tattoo artists? Perhaps you meant 'incompetent'? Weeds are for discarding, normally.

Careful observation shows that dude is using a clear sheet (glass? plastic?) to manipulate his own nose. I can now sleep nightmare-free.

... for 'but missteps almost caused Vader his victory', perhaps you meant 'cost' instead of 'caused'. Kinda reverses the meaning, doesn't it?

One wonders how a simple quartz petri dish, no diamond, no plastic, would fare... it's not apparent whether diamond makes any difference at all.

This... "the largest known prime number, 257,885,161-1", would read better as:

"the largest known prime number, (2^57,885,161)-1"

Just a pedant, I guess.

The light puzzle assumes incandescent lights... by the given criteria, a clepsydra has more moving parts than an hourglass.

Downton Abbey season 3 just came out... eyes are 16:9 shaped! This just fits with our instant gratification society... and I absolutely refuse to watch commercials any more; Tivo and Blu-Ray are my friends now. Having a really hard time waiting 2 more years for The Hobbit to complete... damn.

"what other marvels does the Universe has in stock?"

I can has marvels?

That obviously made a lot of people's day!

Singular 'they' it is. About time... his/her, he/she or hir whatever... gone like the dodo!

They always say 'Holy Shit'! I had to LOL... I'd say it too. Why is 'Holy Shit' our go-to exclamation?

A new verb! "To Phuge"... as in, fashion wrongly assumed to attract the opposite sex.