Have a look at the crazy Japanese lunches that some mothers make for their kids - link

Wacky Japanese television game show

The NY Times Magazine has a slideshow online of the real people behind the avatars that you seen on World of Warcraft, Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies. Start the slideshow here

My favourite is

Nature continues to amaze me. Take a look at the following video of a particular species of shrimp that can create a collapsing bubble, also known as a cavitation bubble, that is able to stun and even kill small fish by snapping one of its claws. One of the side effects of this bubble is that as it collapses it reaches the surface temperature of the Sun. The light is of lower intensity than the light produced by typical sonoluminescence and is not visible to the naked eye.

Wikipedia article located here.

Check out this article about various enterprises in NY city and their profit. The ones that are surprising are the discount stores - $30 million in revenue from 3 stores with $6.9 million profit. It goes into a bit of detail about what each organisation’s profitable and unprofitable items are - for example, Nobu makes more on it’s black cod with miso but not so much on the tuna tartare.

Have a look at Passive Aggressive Notes - my favourite is the note to the flatmate - “Ben buy poison”.