Here is an interesting video that demonstrates a thought and modeling experiment on how to evolve a watch.

This is a fascinating video which shows that, Paley's hoary old argument notwithstanding, a fully functioning watch could evolve - if there were a population of watches subject to mutation and natural selection.

Obviously it's just a thought experiment, but it convincingly demolishes the cretinist dogma that complexity is prima facie proof that goddidit.

Link to video.  [via Pharyngula]

From bands to balloons, here is a site that explores the evolution of speechballoons. 

From the site:

During the 18th century, British caricaturists changed the shape of speechballoons from gothic speech-bands or flags into fluffy balloons, our modern speechballoons.

I'm using the word speechballoon as the general, inclusive term. (The gothic form of speechballoons are speechbands, flags, scrolls or sheets of paper, the modern form of speechballoons are balloons, but also little rectangles, often rounded at the edges, or simply little blocks of text above the heads of the speaker etc, etc).

The 18th century term for speechballoons was 'labels'.

Here you can study various experiments and variations and the gradual change from bands to balloons. Even the later examples sometimes have tiny leftovers of the 'bands' on the other side of the balloon.

It's surprisingly interesting.  Take a gander.

 In the Spring of 2005, I was surprised to see a sexbot posting on hackaday.com. I was even more surprised to see that Lego Mindstorm robots were being used to mimic evolution. As an AI researcher, I became extremely interested in the topic, especially because of genetic algorithm work in Artificial Intelligence studies. Needless to say, I just HAD to try this out for myself. After a great dialog with the creator of the sexbots, i.e. Robot God, I began to work with NQC and a Java OS to expand this project. Thanks to Jason for all of the guidance with the creation of my sexbot farm...