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Lego Fan Creates 250,000-Brick 'Garrison of Moriah'
Usually, the only constraint on building a Lego creation is your imagination. Unless, that is, you build a giant structure that demands its own "Lego room." Say hello to the "Garrison of Moriah" and the 540-square-foot room it inhabits. Inspired by the fantastic buildings in Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, it's a huge, detailed sculpture built to the scale of the tiny Lego "people" that inhabit it.
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Alt Text: Join the Inactivist Party and Make Your Indifference Heard
It's time to harness the untapped reservoir of rage represented by the more than 60 million people pounding away on internet discussion boards. To signal the beginning of a brand new political party, I give you the Inactivist Party.
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Want Kids to Win the Future? Turn Them Into Makers
Nolan Bushnell once almost destroyed his family's garage. As a youngster in Utah, he went tooling around with a liquid-fuel rocket on a roller skate and things went awry. He (and the garage) survived, and Bushnell went on to be a lifelong innovator -- from Pong to Chuck E. Cheese's. The Atari co-founder's background makes him a natural fit for this weekend's Maker Faire in California. He will be headlining the event with a presentation on why it's important to teach children to be makers in order to stay competitive in the future.
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Hey, You, Get Into My Cloud
Escaping from World of Warcraft leads to the life-changing realization that using eBay for cloud storage of physical goods will set you free. Bonus: In the future, you'll never be more than 24 hours away from a sexy robot costume.
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Bunker PLC Event Brings Grindhouse Weirdness to East London
There's something disorientating about seeing a prosthetic corpse being opened up. Particularly so when you're trapped in an abandoned World War II bunker in East London, surrounded by an unsettling darkness and three dozen confused strangers.
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Alt Text: The World Without Warcraft
After burning out in World of Warcraft and abandoning the game for several months, just the thought of returning to the virtual world to mingle with goblins, elves and gnomes causes a strange and unpleasant physical reaction.
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GeekDad Guide: How to Build a Nerf-Dart Blowgun
The new GeekDad book is out, packed with projects and games for families to do together. Here's one of the book's projects: How to make the stealthiest Nerf launcher ever.
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Collector Porn: King of Pinball Machines Shares His Loot
Richard Conger is a truly obsessive collector. He owns over 700 pinball games on an eight-acre farm he calls Silver Ball Ranch. The games are piled from floor to ceiling in barns and storage sheds. Wired takes a tour of his impressive collection and workshop.
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Alt Text: Sneaky Smartphones Track Stupid Users
There's no reason to get all worked up about the recent revelation that certain extremely popular gadgets compile and store data about their users' locations. No, really.
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Storyboard: Cityscapes Shows How Buildings Shape Culture
Think of a city -- Chicago, Los Angeles, New York. What defines it? The climate? The people? The food? Maybe it's the buildings. That's the idea that John King, urban design critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, explores in this edition of the Storyboard podcast.
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