Are you rendered useless when you’re faced with unassembled furniture? A leaky faucet? Broken lamp? If this sounds like you, I’ve got the book for you that I saw floating around the blogosphere a little while ago. I wasn’t going to review it until I could get my hands on a copy to make sure it was as good as the reviews were saying. Help, It’s Broken! (Arianne Cohen) is a fix it bible for the repair-impaired. Whether you live in a house or a 9×12 dorm room, everyone needs a book like this.

The 1 Second Film is an interesting project to create the largest collaborative work of art ever attempted. Basically, it’s a non-profit collaborative bringing thousands of people from around the world together to all create a one-second animation–the animation consists of 12 giant collaborative paintings made by hundreds of people during an all-night event. A feature length 70mm ‘making of’ documentary will play during the estimated 90 minute end-credits. You can buy credit for to become a producer, even $1 gets your name in the credits and help produce the film. It’s an interesting idea, check out the site for more information. They have tons of big name actors and producers already– Samuel Jackson is a $10 producer, Kevin Bacon, Pierce Brosnan, Spike Jonze, Andy Dick, and man others. Ultimately they have a 5 phase plan to ‘bring the world together’, eventually producing an 11,111 second film.