April 2007

Having a hard time getting up in the morning? Maybe you need something that annoys you into getting up and shutting it off — like Clocky…
 

To quote Will Smith: "I have GOT to get me one of these!"

Here's a handy list of 32 Edible Insect Foods You Can Buy Online. Mmmmmmm…. bugs!

Want to give your mom a heart attack? Blood Puddle Pillows ought to do the trick.

Wisegeek lists some simple, obvious, but oft-overlooked ways to make your offline life easier.

This is wrong on so many levels.

Paper Robots presents a small but impressive collection of print-cut-and-assemble robot models, including the famed Optimus Prime of the 'Transformers'. (Thanks, Jason!)

The Google Operating System blog brings us news of Virustotal, a free online service that will scan files under 10 MB in size for viruses using dozens of virus-scanning engine. You can upload a suspect file to the website, or email it as an attachment.

Martin Rundkvist teaches us how to suppress the error message "Your last Firefox session closed unexpectedly" that Firefox sometimes gives when launched.

Any child of the early Sixties will remember the Supermarionation kid's shows produced by Gerry Anderson. Boing Boing points us to a dead-on parody from the devious minds of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore…
 

For my friend Buddy Don, who loves this kind of thing, here are some Real Time 3D Illusions.

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Courtesy of my brother, visit the Rodex Rodent Control System site and see this boon to mankind in action. Looks to me like someone watched "Caddyshack" one too many times.

There's a second video of this device available on Youtube: