Fun Stuff

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg tortoise overlords

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Check out this little guy:

Due to a horrific tortoise accident, doctors had to amputate a leg. Rather than just leaving the poor guy to suffer, they replaced the missing leg with a wheel. Sure, he can’t walk in the wild, but apparently he does okay on tile.

Maybe they should replace the other front leg as well, maybe give him a little motor or something. Then again, maybe all that speed would blow his tiny mind. Maybe the world isn’t ready for ultra-fast tortoises. Maybe their slow speed is the only thing between them and world domination.

Link via Sara who sent me this a while ago, but then today it showed up on FailBlog. I guess I need to work these in faster so I can be first!

Make your own skylights

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Okay, this is pretty cool. A guy in Brazil figured out how to make a skylight out of used pop bottles.

It sounds a little crazy, and maybe looks a little ghetto, but the results are actually amazing. Each plastic bottle gives as much light as a 50 watt light bulb. Don’t believe me? Watch this video until the end, when they take the buckets off the water bottles. It will blow your mind.

The quality of light from the skylights is so much better than from the regular light bulbs she had on before that. And the whole idea is pretty great: they’re essentially made from trash (plastic bottle, film canister and a little bleach), and they have zero electricity cost to run. They might not give you light all the time when you would need it (at night for example), but even if they could keep you from using lights during the day, they’d be a pretty significant cost saver.

I’m not saying we should all be installing these, but they do have a time and a place. Obviously the people in the video seem pretty happy with them!

Link via Sara

Bacon Alarm Clock

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You know how you’re always saying, “Someone should totally make a…” and then someone totally makes it? I know that I’ve asked for this item before, but I couldn’t find it on the blog anywhere.

I give you the Wake’n Bacon, the real bacon alarm clock:

Before you go to bed, you put a frozen piece of bacon in the tray. 10 minutes before you want to wake up, the alarm switches on a heat lamp, so you wake up to the smell and sound of frying bacon. What could possibly be better than that?

And how cute is it that it looks like a pig? Some sort of cannibal-monster pig that fries up pieces of itself for your consumption. Yes sir, it would be hard to improve on this product.

Link via Brian Belloli.

Why waste your time planning for all these OTHER ridiculous disasters…

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…when there are real, actual threats you should be planning for!

Link via GraphJam.

That’s called preparedness

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From full sleep to fighting zombies in 30 seconds or less:

Picture via FailBlog.