Culture

Impress your Romulan visitors with this fashionable DIY sliding-door treatment. Video after the jump.

Entropy isn't just something that makes us lose our car keys; it also keeps time's arrow pointed in its familiar direction, as this deft film by John Pavlus ably shows. Video after the jump.

The latest example of the periodic-table-of-elements meme is�wait for it�a periodic table of elements.

Renowned motorcycle builders create a real-life version of the Tron light cycle. It's sleek, it's masterfully built�and it's a pale reflection of the preternatural awesomeness of the 1982 movie's original.

Even on the moon, the pause that refreshes.

Illustrating the strange, shadowy world in which America's ambassadors move.

The global security apparatus meets its match in the Internet.

There's a Chomsky reference and a Borges allusion here; add the fish and the formic acid, and this track offers more than enough science, technology, and culture to satisfy us. Video after the jump.

A whimsical and elegant printing block for Chinese characters that explores the enduring puzzle of writing.

Kevin Bacon's ad for the Logitech Revue reminds us that with personality in the cloud, we're all unwitting doppelg�ngers now.