Gendy Alimurung

It is indeed Armageddon days: venerable prankster-gift website Archie McPhee has run out of inflatable turkeys. Is the economy so bad this year that people are serving their Thanksgiving guests hot air instead of real juicy meat? Sad, sad. Note on the Archie website says: "We've run out of Inflatable......

Douglas Little's gothy, elegant, neo-Victorian D.L.&Co. line of candles and curiosities is one of my favorite home decor design lines of all time. This Bust of Dierdre Candle is a perfect example of why. Based on a neo-classical statue, the bust weeps tears of hot wax when lit. Though I......

Martin Grondin, a 25-year-old software installation support engineer living in Dracut, MA, thought it would be a nice idea to translate the entire holy Bible into cat language. So a few years ago, he created the online LOLCat Bible Translation Project. The Bible is now due out in book form......

Speaking of Star Wars (and when are we not), Jedi Master Yoda now comes as a tree topper. From the looks of things, he's been up for sale at the Star Wars Shop since October, and has since sold out. He's still available at several other places around the Internet......

They did it! They made the damned thing: the Tauntaun sleeping bag is a reality. If you remember, the sleeping bag started as an April Fool's joke by the people at ThinkGeek. Demand was so intense they decided to try to make the sleeping bag for real. And what Star......

Hey, remember when Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art? And they had that glowing unicorn under the Japanese Pavilion? And Holly Vesecky made that replica of Sam Francis's painting, but all out of flowers? And there were weird people playing brass instruments in the elevators?......

Last week I did an interview with the blogging genius behind "crafts gone wrong" blog Kraftomatic. Soon after, she posted about these: Nose Cozies. "In my humble yet obsessive opinion, this is the best thing to happen to the cozy since the advent of the asthma-inhaler sweater," writes Marian Lizzi......

Every now and then, a reader comment just blows my mind. Do you remember my vampire hunting kits roundup from a few weeks ago? Someone claiming to be an honest to god, "real" vampire hunter emailed me to explain that "the only creature who is lonelier than the vampire, it......

The much-anticipated cloth-bound editions of Penguin classic books are finally out in the US. They are designed by Penguin senior designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Instead of the usual stodgy painting of the author on the cover, these have clever illustrations that pick up on some iconic image pertaining to the novel......