Business Week is impressed by Lego bricks.

The bricks are so versatile that just six of them can be arranged in 915,103,765 ways. No wonder Lego has been named “Toy of the Century” – twice… The company claims that out of every 1 million elements made, just 18 will be declared defective and removed from the set. Impressive numbers, considering that the Lego Group is producing 15 billion components a year – that’s 1.7 million items an hour, or 28,500 a minute. Tyre production accounts for some of that number; the factory also produces 306 million tiny rubber tyres a year. In fact, going by that number, Lego is the world’s No. 1 tyre manufacturer.

Related: Art of the Brick, how Lego bricks are made, the politics of Lego, and the Lego harpsichord, which sounds much like you’d imagine.

(h/t, Coudal.)

Busy today, but you may want to play with this. 

Panorama of an Airbus A380 cockpit. Just don’t touch anything. (h/t, Coudal.) // “It’s really just a big thing falling on the ground that we want to make sure we’re prepared for.” // Domo-kun cooks, sweats and emits green gas. The rest is hard to fathom. // Croatian food company issues annual report in oven-bake form. 100ºC for 25 minutes. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Just drying my octopus.  As you do. // Impressive drill bits. // How to build a Lego geodesic dome. // Light-emitting wallpaper. // More remarkable bridges. // Cut-away car illustrations. // Robot calligraphy. // Robert Hodgin’s Magnetic Ink. More. And. // “A 25 letter message can be up to 20 miles long, seen for 400 square miles, and written in as short as 2 minutes.” That’s skytyping. More. // The virtual typewriter museum. // A collection of typewriter ribbon tins. // Furry pencils. // Post-it note projects we have known and loved. // Balaclava with beard. £135. // How to make a kimono. // Pimp my sewing machine. // Marijuana vending machine. Medicinal use only. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Warping negative space. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) // A map of religion in the U.S. // Andrew Bostom on Hitler and Muhammad. // The L Ron Hubbard audio collection. // And, via The Thin Man, Dinah watches the skies.   

The Stalinmobile. It’s post-ironic, I think.

Related: Stalin’s actual cars and other personal items. And.

He was very, very distraught. He was yelling loudly. He didn’t sound like he was drunk or anything, but he was swearing and asking for God. He specifically said he wants to talk to God.

When the co-pilot is unwell.