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College kids need recreation. They need a way to release their inner beast. Countless nights of homework, studying and getting stoned until your convinced your eyeballs are going to fall out takes its toll. Sometimes you need to think outside of the box, and drink everything inside the can.

Now you KNOW floppy disks are antiquated. They're now being used as a hip, semi-ironic art form, creating painted portraits of hipsters in their most hipster-y photos. Goodbye floppy. It was nice knowing you!

I've always had the incessant urge to visit the great museums of the world and just take massive, brute animalistic bites out of the greatest masterpieces ever created. And wouldn't you know it, Edvard Munch's "The Scream" tastes just like chicken! Bwahahah, just kidding. Tastes like toast. DIPPED IN CHICKEN!

I found it particularly fitting that today we already 'talked at ya' about the magnificently radical Super Mario Papercraft. How perfectly convenient it is that on this same day I would stumble upon a series of Super Mario statues made out of paper clips.

Likely forged in the fires of Mordor, this feat of snack engineering has now supplanted its Oreo brethren, the double-stuffed, as the ruler of Candyland.

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."

Since when is technological advancement a prerequisite for artistic seriousness?

Thousands of cars shooting around in an endless loop: just because it looks like dystopia doesn't mean it's not delightful.

Kinect hacks are emerging at a rapid pace; it�s hard to recall a mass-market gadget so quickly adapted to new uses. As Bruce Sterling points out, �Microsoft accidentally invented a primo piece of art-installation hardware.� It's this kind of DIY innovation that keeps tech feral.

The ease with which the Microsoft Kinect can be torn down�and the familiarity of the software driving it�has quickly proven a feature and not a bug for hackers. Hacking commercial gadgets is nothing new of course; but the pace at which hacks now appear, as well as the appeal they generate, is something to watch.