During my recent travels I read a pretty fun book from Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (buy at Amazon).
Another favorite, in somewhat the same bizarre vein, is John Kennedy Toole's, Confederacy of Dunces. You can read an excerpt here or buy it at Amazon.
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At my last job a buddy and I pieced together an awesome potato cannon which provided for hours and hours of great fun. Other folks take vegetable projection much more seriously as you'll discover here at siege-engine.com. The second cannon I made resides at my Mom's cabin in Atlantic City, WY and is a favorite with visiting grandkids. You quickly run out of potatoes in a remote town like AC, especially if you shoot them over the nearby hills. We've also used apples and one time I had a competition with the kids to see who could design the best projectile using paper, cardboard, and duct tape. My brother says that a tennis ball works but it's tough to shove down the tube...jeezum, not sure I'd try that.
Just how does the Giant Lobular Movement Detector work? Scientists are studying locust's response to predators by exposing them to episodes of Star Wars while wired to sensors. I'd be curious to find which parts of Star Wars the locusts find threatening: Wookie or the princess with those huge hair buns (lookout, a giant bugeyed mantis!), Jaba the Hut or a wanna be Jedi whiner (high frequency projectile moping).