Build a Rube Goldberg Machine With Your Kids for This Contest
by Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Me from Lifehacker on (#5802R)

Why perform simple, everyday tasks when you can make a complicated contraption to help you perform them? That's the idea behind the annual contest hosted by Rube Goldberg, Inc., in honor of cartoonist Rube Goldberg whose cartoons often depicted devices that performed everyday tasks in convoluted ways. For this year's...