"construction workers installed a Subway sandwich shop atop a crane"

"Builders hope the high-rise hoagie store will help hardhats work more efficiently by allowing them to purchase $5 footlongs without descending from the skyscraper"

Maleficent’s Castle

Maleficent's Castle ("Forbidden Fortress"), sculpted by Larry Nikolai and available April 2010.

Lump of coal gift box

Go here to see how to turn a gift box into a lump of coal.

Bioshock papercraft

Subject Delta, Big Sister, Little Sister, Toasty, and Baby Jane paper toys by Bryan Green can be downloaded here.

10-dimensional paperweight

Calabi-Yau Manifold Crystal on sale here.

The Force Unleashed 2

Ankonian Lamborghini

Ankonian Lamborghini concept car designed by Slavcho Tanevsky and available as desktop wallpapers here.

Demon Lamp

Demon Lamp designed by Jamie Hewlett on sale here.

Strong truck photograph

A picture of an F-150 holds bricks overhead.

"MIT wins $40,000 prize in nationwide balloon-hunt contest"

CNN:

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won $40,000 in a high-tech scavenger hunt on Saturday by discovering the location of 10 red weather balloons.

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This contest was designed to test the way social networking and lesser-known Web-based techniques can help accomplish a large-scale, time-critical task.

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"We're giving $2,000 per balloon to the first person to send us the correct coordinates, but that's not all -- we're also giving $1,000 to the person who invited them. Then we're giving $500 whoever invited the inviter, and $250 to whoever invited them, and so on..." it said.

Blue Shell Christmas tree topper

Mario Kart Blue Shell Christmas tree ornament by Jaime Margary.

The Burton uniform for the U.S. Olympic Snowboarding Team

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Thomas Allen

By Thomas Allen for this article in United's inflight magazine.