Hellooooo, weirdtown! Not only did someone go through the trouble of carving a giant Steve Jobs head out of mozzarella cheese, they’ve also given detailed instructions on how to make your very own. In three varieties, no less! More

I think I would’ve done a lot better in 10th grade Chemistry if we’d studied the Periodic Table of Sci-Fi Film and Television. And I get the feeling I’m not the only one. Click to biggie-size. More

From Bill Buxton ’s presentation to the Mix conference about user interfaces, one of the first 3rd-party apps created with Microsoft’s recently released WinPho 7 SDK : A cheeky Twitter app, for electrical telegraph operators. [ Mix 2010 ] More

From Bill Buxton ’s fascinating presentation to the Mix conference about user interfaces, one of the first 3rd-party apps created with Microsoft’s recently released WinPho 7 SDK : A cheeky Twitter app, for electrical telegraph operators. [ Mix 2010 ] More

Supposedly spotted in an AT&T store, and presented without comment. [ Reddit via The Daily What via Richard Blakeley ] More

This picture shows entrants in this year’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Breakaway match. Teams of ambitious high school kids build robots to compete in what’s basically the American Gladiator version of soccer. It’s pretty amazing. More

When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No flash. And yes, it can make things look sad. More

It’s hard for a lot of us to relate to what goes on in fashion, but Alexander McQueen , recently deceased , strode across some familiar territory in his final works. Shots like this are as sci-fi as they are high-fashion. [ BoingBoing ] More

That’s not the sun. But for a brief period, in a small Arctic town in Canada, in the dead of winter, it was the next-best thing. More

Buried in a site devoted to early robots is my dream man, Electron. Russian, born in 1967, he has 4ft-wide shoulders, waltzes, plays chess, and while he only understands 112 commands, his steely gaze is reassuringly paternal. [ CyberneticZoo via BotJunkie ]