Offbeat

Scotch, the company behind scotch tape, is holding their annual sculpture contest. Some of the entries are quite incredible.

In a move that is sure to result in a "World's Greatest Dad" mug, one creative father constructed a fully-functioning cake based around the game 'Angry Birds'.

What started off as a sarcastic question to Detroit's mayor over Twitter exploded into an Internet movement. Now Detroit, Michigan, whether it wants it or not, is getting a statue dedicated to RoboCop.

An auto-corrected text message has resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man after what could be described as a "grave misunderstanding."

What do you do when you have entirely too much time on your hands? You grab a hammer, a few nails and some wood and build a working model of M.C. Escher's "Waterfall."

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.

Julian Smith: don't you ever interrupt me while I'm reading a book. Video after the jump.

When two chatbots discuss Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, it's Waiting for Godot meets the Turing test, in the stagecraft of Annie Dorsen. Video after the jump.

A story about cheating in middle-eastern camel racing�and by the way, the jockeys are robots. Buried lede, or simply a case of the unevenly-distributed future?

"EACH FLUID OUNCE CONTAINS THE VIRTUES OF TWO OUNCES OF FRESH BEEF WITH ONE OUNCE SHERRY WINE." From the design blog codex99, a collection of early twentieth-century tonic labels illustrates the fickle nature of pharmaceutical progress.