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."

Bill O'Reilly takes on all those pinheads who think that gravity is enuf. But in a fantasy smackdown with Richard Feynman, who fares better? Videos after the jump.

The trailer for the long-awaited, much-maligned Duke Nukem Forever may be pixelated, but it tries hard�too hard�to pull no punches. Warning: although blurred, some bits are not safe for work. 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?

Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.

"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.

More domestic style than you or I can hope to amass in a lifetime�displayed in ten seconds. We might want to think about what that says for style... We so badly want to be our things. Video after the jump.

Robust and primitive, is the GIF the nematode of online imagery? it's as if C. elegans had swum down through the aeons to intersect with an image-making format engineered to express its qualities.