“. . .Yet another designer goes so far as to believe that skirts will disappear entirely!”

Self-concerned prophetic writings are always a little wacky, both when they come shockingly true . . .

I wouldn’t be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future—there will be books written about Harry—every child in our world will know his name!

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, p. 13

. . . and turn hilariously false:

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

— Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

There are few things funnier than seeing the above line graven in huge letters on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial.

Philosophy Experiments is a fascinating little site with questionnaires to test the internal consistency of your beliefs about stuff like God and murder, as well as a handful of logic puzzles that humans seem hardwired to fail.  I never quite understood the Monty Hall problem until I saw it explained here.

The only downside?  Needs moar experiments!

His wife left him, and he got left with the wedding dress.  She said he could do whatever he wanted with it—so he did.  And blogged about it.

Since then it’s become everything from a dishrag to a jumprope, and will continue to do so until its multifarious application reaches that grand sum of 101 Things To Do With A Wedding Dress Besides, Of Course, Wearing It.  And we get to watch!

From the National Film Board of Canada and the Cannes Short Film Corner’s annual online contest comes this beautiful little film.  He can fix it!

The Brick Testament—yes, it’s pretty nearly the entire Bible illustrated with LEGO products!

This doesn’t mean it’s for kids, though.  There’s much more here than the cutsey stories you heard in Sunday School—Israel B.C. is a bloody, bloody place (the translucent red bricks are used to great effect).