Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the iPhonekiller. How is this open source? Well, the inventor says you can down the CAD files and copy or modify them as you see fit. Sweet!

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This can’t be real” was my first thought. Then I checked the source: The Guatemalan government. This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Just looking at the photo gives me vertigo.

In a blog post long, long ago we scoured through what was then the 119 circulating currencies of the 192 UN member states to find some of the world’s most colorful currencies.

Lady gaga frightens me…. Clicky clicky for more.

1991 was the year Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales. And, apparently, those numbers hadn’t been that low in nearly 20 years. That was, of course, until this past week, when just about 5.3 million records were sold.

The Billboard Top 10 for the last week with copies sold rounded off:

1. Justin Bieber – My World 2.0 – 60,000
2. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now – 54,000
3. The National – High Violet – 51,000
4. AC/DC – Iron Man 2 – 48,000
5. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards – 45,000
6. Carole King and James Taylor – Live at the Troubadour – 44,000
7. Usher – Raymond v. Raymond – 43,000
8. Charice – Charice – 43,000
9. Godsmack – The Oracle – 43,000
10. As I Lay Dying – Powerless Rise – 38,000