You have to hand it to the folks over at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo . They probably don’t need to use a life-size rhino made out of papier-m?ch?, but they didn’t skimp either. The thing even has wiggling ears and a swinging tail. It’s hilarious to see in action.

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Giant papier-mache rhino terrorizes Japanese zoo, almost escapes

Toymaker and spider-’bot lover Jaimie Mantzel made a pretty lofty claim in a video he uploaded to YouTube yesterday. He’s calling his newly unveiled creation the “greatest toy in the universe.” That’s some pretty big talk, and — OH MY GOD TWO LAYERS OF ARMOR HE DID NOT

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Video: ‘Greatest toy in the universe!’

An indie film group just exhibited a quirky piece at the Sundance Festival — a film created via a computer algorithm . Something of a “film clip roulette,” the team shot unique scenarios, voice-overs and music clips that end up spliced together for a unique film that is different at each viewing.

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How to create an indie movie with an algorithm

The Internet is a buzz about the recording-breaking crowd-funding efforts of game studio Double Fine. Industry veteran Tim Schafer, who has worked on such classics as Monkey Fire, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango among others, has taken his latest project to the people in order to develop their new game in the public eye.

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Double Fine game studio shatters Kickstarter funding records

This little heart-shaped tool is so sweet you’re going to melt. If it doesn’t out of sheer cuteness it will probably win points for not just being a heart, but also every utensil you need to eat a meal and being recyclable to boot.

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Romantic heart turns into recyclable utensils for two

I’m a sucker for a sweet exploding head scene. Dawn of the Dead had a good one — quick, but fun. Total Recall has my favorite implied noggin popping ( almost two ). The best-of-the-best though, has to be from the scene in David Cronenberg’s Scanners , and it just got a worthy tribute from — of all places — a music video.

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An unlikely tribute to the awesome exploding head in Scanners

From the film Contact to the classic sci-fi short story The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, there’s really only one piece of information humanity wants the answer to: What’s out there, and where does it end?

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Scale of the Universe: A fantastic trip from quarks to quasars

That Ben Heck , he’s always finding ways to make gamers lazier more productive while sitting in front of the TV. Heck’s “Hot Pocket Dispenser” solves the conundrum of eating and gaming. Now, you’ll never have to pause your game to eat that Hot Pocket. Die zombies, die!

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Controller-mounted Hot Pocket dispenser: eat and game at once

In this 2011 YouTube upload, violist Luk Kmi? shows what to do when your playing is interrupted by a ringing phone, as happened to him during a beautiful performance at an orthodox synagogue in Presov, Slovakia. Kmi? broke off playing for an instant, regrouped, and then improvised a lovely aria based on the Nokia ringtone. Nokia ringtone during concert of classical music ( via Making Light )

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Violist improvs response to ringing Nokia phone

Butter sculptures are a big attraction at the Pennsylvania Farm Show — and apparently the bigger the better. This year saw a giant pastoral scene of a boy leading his calf. Cute, but you know us better — we love it because it is going to be dumped in a manure pit and from there will power a farm for three days.

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1,000-pound butter sculpture doubles as a power source