Offbeat

An amazing chart traces the routes of a variety of fictional time voyages, from Buck Rogers to Planet of the Apes to the several temporal joyrides found throughout the Star Trek franchise.

The music sequencer Isle of Tune is like a simple little city sim game�for a magical land of loopy, tuneful fancy.

It's not an ancient computer reverse-engineered in plastic blocks, but this Lego-inspired spoof of Call of Duty: Black Ops is good fun. Video after the jump.

Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.

An animated reverse-history of communications media that goes from apps to web to video to clay to slate and chalk. In six seconds.

A project to use barcodes to track consumer waste reminds me of what Slavoj �i�ek says while standing amidst piles of garbage: "part of our daily perception of reality is that this [trash] disappears from our world."

At Boston's Berklee College of Music, an a cappella choir treats video game music with a full measure of seriousness�and affection.

Design fiction as poetry, "Tableau" is a nightstand that quietly prints out photos from Twitter and places them in its drawer. Emily Dickinson might have approved.

Impress your Romulan visitors with this fashionable DIY sliding-door treatment. Video after the jump.

Entropy isn't just something that makes us lose our car keys; it also keeps time's arrow pointed in its familiar direction, as this deft film by John Pavlus ably shows. Video after the jump.