Offbeat

Note to all robbers out there: If you're going to break into the home of anybody, especially a journalist, don't spam their Facebook page with pictures of yourself with the swiped loot.

Art, subjective as it is, can be created in many forms. While today's artwork frequently utilizes graphic design programs or Photoshop to "touch up" images, this reminds us that there is still room for the good ol' fashioned method of creating art known as "blowing things up."

There was a time when games like 'Doom' required top-of-the-line computing to play. Now we can play it on a graphing calculator.

Bethesda Softworks is offering a peculiar giveaway: The first person to give birth to a child on November 11th, 2011 and name them "Dovahkiin" will receive free Bethesda/ZeniMax games for life.

Scotch, the company behind scotch tape, is holding their annual sculpture contest. Some of the entries are quite incredible.

In a move that is sure to result in a "World's Greatest Dad" mug, one creative father constructed a fully-functioning cake based around the game 'Angry Birds'.

What started off as a sarcastic question to Detroit's mayor over Twitter exploded into an Internet movement. Now Detroit, Michigan, whether it wants it or not, is getting a statue dedicated to RoboCop.

An auto-corrected text message has resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man after what could be described as a "grave misunderstanding."

What do you do when you have entirely too much time on your hands? You grab a hammer, a few nails and some wood and build a working model of M.C. Escher's "Waterfall."

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.