Back Alley Internet is a recurring column in which we explore some of the weirder corners of the Internet and see what we can drudge up for your amusement and education. This week: Eric studies the legions of Twitter bots that trawl the trending topics and spit out some unintentionally hilarious tweets.

If you’re on Twitter, it’s inevitable that you have some contact with bots. I hate to burst your bubble, but that friendly stranger tipping you off to a free iPad sweepstakes? Bot. That new lady following you who has quite the saucy bio? Bot. Bot spam is a pretty big problem Twitter is trying to crack down on. It’s not all just vanilla link mentions and auto-adding though; there’s a whole breed of Twitter bot that cruises the trending topics trying to con meatbags into clicking spam links by pairing them with a trending topic and one of many stock phrases. The results can be absolutely hilarious.

Artist Theo Jansen has been wowing and terrifying beachgoers with his kinetic sculptures he calls “strandbeests.” Massive and maddening in their complexity, their fluidity of motion is truly breathtaking. Even more amazing is that these sculptures are powered by the wind, or human power. Now, at long last, someone has found a way to translate one of Jansen’s designs into LEGO form, and it might even become an official set.

Bed technology tends to be kind of boring. Sure, you’ve got your Sleep Number alchemy and that memory foam stuff, but where are our space beds, or like, flying beds or whatever? Redditor mememetatata must have asked himself a similarly meandering question, and then decided to do something about it by building a levitating magnetic bed. Yes, ladies and gents, this bed floats.

Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby may come in a 3D version, but what other movie can you see where Leonardo DiCaprio prances about some Eggs and has lavish parties, then someone gets punched in the nose? The above trailer is as extravagant as those parties, filled with scenes of said parties, lots of dancing, and Jack White because he was a major presence in 1920s New York. The Great Gatsby is coming this Christmas, so we people eating Chinese food for a specific reason on that day will now have a big movie to look forward to seeing after we eat.

While people on Earth were looking up to see the moon pass in front of the sun during last weekend’s spectacular annular eclipse, astronauts and satellites were looking down. What they saw was decidedly less dramatic than a fiery ring around the black disk of the moon, but no less awe-inspiring. Instead, they saw the shadow our lunar neighbor cast.

For some, Siri is an invaluable assistant, allowing for easy searching of the web and email dictation. For others, it’s a source of constant entertainment as it bumbles its way through human communication. For IBM, Siri is a security risk. So much so, that they have banned the use of Apple’s voice assistant at the workplace.

To celebrate the 70th birthday of Bob Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer, Google has put a fully functional version of the Minimoog model D along with a four-track recorder as a Doodle. This is definitely one of the more complex Doodles we’ve seen, but here’s some advice to get you started.

These tired and weary Internet eyes have seen some fun versions of Tetris in their day, from xkcd’s Tetris Hell, to Tetris being played on the side of a building. This time, from an old Japanese sketch comedy show, we see a probably not actually playable, but still pretty hilarious version of the famous puzzler. The sketch covers a wide range of Tetris-based comedy, from each individual piece clearing whenever it drops, to the game dropping down a bunch of regular tetrominos, but then following them up with a piece from Puyo Pop. Possibly even funnier: The actor’s narration.

You might not think it would be possible, but through some sophisticated knife-wizardry, Oklahoma State University and their resident meat expert discovered a new cut of steak: The Vegas Strip. Supposedly, it’s secreted away inside the slab of meat that’s traditionally ground up for hamburger. Why only “supposedly” you ask? Well, OSU won’t say exactly what the Vegas Strip really is, because they want to patent it.

If you haven’t had at least one experience with swearing at a ketchup bottle that just refuses to give up the crimson deliciousness held within, you aren’t a real person. At least not as far as I’m concerned. As for all you real people, those of you who have done battle with a counterproductively viscous condiment, your troubles may soon come to an end. MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his crew have developed a super non-stick coating that could completely eliminate bottle-clinging remnants, and seriously reduce your stress level.