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As soon as the iPad was announced, Lego fans wondered what it would look like in brick form. Check out the homage by Joe Meno, editor of AFOL bible BrickJournal.

Now there’s another reason to continue drinking beer. Other than drowning my problems and celebrating holiday’s I didn’t even know existed just to feel that cold liquid refreshment, I learned it can save my life! Don’t let your wife or girlfriend tell you you’re getting too fat because you drink too much beer. Let her know that you are working on a natural body armor. According to a UK paper The SUN,  Snaz Martin, a local pub boss was stabbed with a three inch blade when he told a patron to leave the knife outside. When he was rushed to the doctor, he was told that the only thing that saved him was his fat belly. The fat he had was enough to protect his vital organs from being shanked to pieces. What I have learned reading this article is that if someone brings a nice into a bar, chances are they will use it against you, so stay away. Second, if I continue drinking beer, my liver my give, but at least I know it won’t give to a stab wound.

That’s right—it’s a portable chair with a compartment for holding gear or frosty beverages. Just make sure you know where that beer has been before you decide to take a sip.

Expand Drinking the odd pint may help prevent bone fractures, according to a US study. Shrink Drinking the odd pint may help prevent bone fractures, according to a US study. var bigImgSrc = 'http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/pint-460.jpg'; $(".enlargeOverlay").css({opacity: 0.9}); function ExpandArticleImage() { // if the big image hasn't been loaded yet load it and give this function as the callback if ( !$("img.articleImageBig").attr('src')) { $("img.articleImageBig").load(function(){ExpandArticleImage();}); $("img.articleImageBig").attr('src',bigImgSrc); } else { $("#articleImageSmall").hide(); $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: return false;"); $("#articleImageBig").animate( { width:"460px" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); $("#articleImageBig .articleImageBig").animate( { width:"460px", height:"230px" }, 500, null, function() { $("#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig").show(); $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: ContractArticleImage();"); }); } } function ContractArticleImage() { $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: return false;"); $("#articleImageBig .enlargeOverlayBig").hide(); $("#articleImageBig .articleImageBig").animate( { width:"220px", height:"147px" }, { queue:false, duration:500 } ); $("#articleImageBig").animate( { width:"220px" }, 500, null, function(){ $("#articleImageBig .eventBind").attr("href", "javascript: ContractArticleImage();"); $("#articleImageSmall").show(); $("#articleImageBig").hide(); }); } It may not be uppermost in the minds of pub goers eager to slake their thirst, but could aid negotiations on the domestic front. A regular pint, it turns out, helps strengthen the bones and prevent fractures in old age (so long as you don't drink too much of it and fall over). Beer is a significant source of silicon, which is a key ingredient of the diet that helps to improve bone mineral density.

Lego’s programmable robotics set Mindstorms is a fun toy for computing enthusiasts but if you really want to take it to the next level, check out Mark Weller’s project. Weller, a machinist and technician at the McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University, combined milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create a robotic spider that can crawl and turn. “I wanted to open students’ minds to go beyond ‘let’s put the parts together and program the robot,’” he says. “This project is more than sticking the wheels on a Lego set.” The school uses Lego Mindstorms to introduce freshman students to robotics.