6:38 PM
Amazing reproductions in Lego of Escher pieces: "Relativity", "Balcony", "Ascending and Descending", and "Waterfall" (via Making Light.) All are the work of Lego expert Andrew Lipson.

From his site, you can jump over to LUGNET, the website of the Lego Users Group Network. There you can search the Lego Set Database for any set ever created, browse through the Brickshelf Library of old instructions and catalogs, work on Lego-themed crossword puzzles.

On LUGNET's Lego newswire, people post the latest Lego news and links to their latest projects. There's a pretty amazing diversity of work being done: Lego poems, 1:1 scale nativity scenes, the inevitable Lego Homer Simpson, stunningly complex spacecraft (don't miss the rest of bldesign), Lego soccer balls, and even Lego electric guitars.

Amazing stuff. I'm glad to see that the Lego trufans share my disdain for the custom parts that infect modern sets.

All of which is a fine segue to pass along the news I received from Gamelab the other day--they've completed a new game over on the official Lego site. Go check out Inventor Saves the Day. I mean, it's got Lego monkeys in it and everything. And coming from Gmlb, it's also a lot of Incredible Machine-like fun.