Grilling with Liquid Oxygen

George Goble of Purdue University probably thought “lighter fluids
are for wussies” when he thought up a way of lighting his charcoal with
liquid oxygen. The result?

Started with 60 lbs of charcoal, and burnt up 40 lbs
of it in 3 seconds. Result is a grill ready to cook in about 3 seconds,
and all the old grease, etc burned off. Don’t try this at home.

But don’t try this at home, please:

WARNING: an ignition source, such as a lit cigarette
or one glowing coal, must be present before pouring on the LOX. If
charcoal is PRESOAKED in LOX first, an explosion will result. One
briquette presoaked in LOX is approx equiv to 1 stick of dynamite.

Concert Ticket Generator

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Make your own concert ticket: Link - Thanks David R!

The REAL Bananaphone!

This is for Bob!

Gearlog : The REAL Bananaphone!

Here at Gearlog, we like to consider ourselves experts on the Bananaphone marketplace.  After finding the foam Bananaphone covers, we dug deeper and found the real deal: an actual bananaphone headset for your cell phone. Yes, you too can look like an idiot and talk into a plastic imitation banana, for only about $20! Why go foam when you can rely on quality plastic?

 I’m not sure how Raffi’s awful bananaphone song became such a Web hit, but I still like the badger version best. The ASCII-art version is less complex and compelling. There are also various videos using the original, slower-tempo song, which sounds like Raffi’s on ‘ludes. (So what’s new about that?) Try a live-action interpretation, a collection of Bananaphone videos from YouTube, and Dave Teatro’s much darker version.

 Oh - yeah, and there’s a land line bananaphone, too.

Posted By: Sascha Segan

Bad Idea? You Bet

Bad Idea? You Bet - Gizmodo

Before you react with horror and disgust, the dangerous toy pictured above is part of a Photoshop contest for the worst toy ideas ever. We had a hearty laugh just looking at the picture. Crayon firecrackers, Manson dolls, scissor running kits—the whole gamut of bad ideas awaits your perusal. Please, don’t try this at home. – Charlie White

Top 10 most bizarre gaming plotlines

Read the other nine on line with the following link.

bit-tech.net | Top 10 most bizarre gaming plotlines

2: Super Monkey Ball

Many puzzle games
forego the need to provide a story. Tetris didn’t have a story, Pac Man
didn’t have a story, Paperboy didn’t have or need a story and none of
these games suffered because of their lack of one. You simply complete
the various puzzles or tasks standing in your way and achieve your
gaming fix. However when Japanese developers decide to give their
puzzler a ‘storyline’ they rarely hold back.

Super Monkey Ball was one such puzzler. It’s a great game - your little
monkey rolls through mazes in a glass ball whilst you control him in an
evolved Marble Madness concept. The multiplayer game is even better,
loads of brilliant games built in pure Nintendo fashion with fun at
heart; rolling round tracks in monkey ball races, floating down rivers
in monkey ball boats, gliding through the air in, erm, monkey ball
gliders – its multiplayer brilliance. You even get four stereotypical monkey characters to choose from: the big monkey, the cool monkey, the girl monkey and even the cute little baby monkey.

However, the designers decided that this simple concoction needed a
story, a plotline to improve the experience. And thus Dr Bad Boon was
born. The underlying theme to Super Monkey Ball is that Dr Bad Boon
wants to steal all the bananas to attract the beautiful female monkeys’
attention. What ensues is a crazy adventure in an attempt to thwart Dr
Bad Boon and his monkey molesting mannerisms. The four good monkeys
travel through dangerous worlds traversing increasingly difficult
platforms to save their village, rescue all the bananas and stop monkey
evil from prevailing.

Stupendously Stupid Comics

These are weird, but they get to you after a bit.

Pop Culture Junk Mail

Stupid comics is just that:  A collection of some of the most unintentionally funny and just plain weird comic books ever.

If Superman meets the Nestle Quik bunny, the least he could do is punch him out.

I could go on and on, but just one more: Canada’s Superkids panic about how we’ll all be out of energy by 1986!

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

Welcome to my Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation and iconography. I welcome submissions–I’m looking for the inexplicable, the surreal and the strange. Email me at (DARREN at DARRENBAREFOOT fullstop COM) with your submissions, and feel free to attach photos.

50 Albums That Changed Music

50 Albums That Changed Music - Yahoo! Picks for July 23, 2006

50 Albums That Changed Music
Seizing the occasion of the album chart’s 50th birthday, a panel of 7 fearless folk at the Guardian Online have served up a list of the 50 records that "caused a sea change in pop music.  The list does everything you want a best-of compilation to do: Turn you on to some new artists, spark absolute outrage over other entries, and create an amusing seating chart along the way.

NotStarring.com

The 25 Most Important Questions in the History of the Universe

People magazine has its 50 Most Beautiful People … Time has a Person of the Year … And  mental_floss magazine - besides having tons of fascinating, cool, and juicy stories, anecdotes, and trivia - now has something that trumps ‘em both:

The 25 Most Important Questions
in the History of the Universe.

8. Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?

Battery letter designations are based on the size of the battery:
for common sizes, A is the smallest, and D is the largest. By the same
logic, AA batteries are larger than AAA. Unfortunately for B batteries,
it’s not the size that counts. You never see B batteries around because
they aren’t very useful. The size never caught on in products made for
consumers, so stores didn’t carry them, and the cycle continued. They
are sold, but only in Europe, where they’re used primarily to power
bicycle lamps.