Some days BoingBoing is just on; other days it’s eighteen posts about the project to equip yaks in the Gobi Desert with iPods and four on Disney’s Haunted Mansion. This is one of the former, thank god.
Here is the story of the famous Pickle Lamp:
HOWTO make a glowing pickle-lamp
You can make a glowing pickle-lamp by jamming power-boards into either end of a pickle that’s resting atop a non-conducting surface and then plugging it in. No idea whether this will burn your house down, but it may be worth it. Link (via Digg)
One of the commentors gives a link to the inevitable YouTube:
Although there was another video I preferred, only it had, like, this girl’s voice? in the background? that spoke in questions?
Honestly, does no one understand that production values are SO IMPORTANT?
raincoaster 
A young electrician named Mark
Once caught an electrical spark
That spark elec-trickle
It “lit” on his pickle
And his pickle now glows in the dark
Composed in honour of nothing in particular.
I confess I first viewed the video without reading the post, and thought perhaps it was one of your toys suffering a terrible malfunction.
Or possibly a picture of Dick Cheney flashing. As it whirr.
Wow, they start drinking early in the outback, eh?