I don’t know what my fixation on clocks is (considering that I recently posted about alarm clocks), but I find the huge variation among them very amusing. There are just so many ingenious ways to innovate around such a simple time-keeping device. Here are some of the best, in ascending order of awesomeness:
5. Water-powered clock
Actually, [...]
This is an awesome stop motion video of someone masterfully procrastinating with a deadline looming over their heads. The sequence is entirely animated by Post-It notes moving around the hapless procrastinator. Activities include checking mail, playing games, sleeping, and general freaking out. Check it out.
If I say so myself, I’m a pretty good procrastinator myself. [...]
This video was shot from the cockpit of a Navy Blue Angels pilot. Pretty damn awesome and scary at the same time. I can’t even begin to imagine the precision necessary for this sort of thing.
via Wired.
If only this were real life (if only real life had background music like that). Ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved the sort of perpetual motion thing where you drop in a ball in one end and it keeps going round and round. Too bad it’s not actual perpetual motion because it [...]
While trolling around Instructables for cool mods, I came across something I thought was pretty awesome that I remember from back at the beginning of the year. These guys from Mana Energy Potion (energy shots for gamers) modded their Vulcan Nerf gun into a a 500-rpm dart-emptying monster. But they ran into trouble trying to [...]
Don’t have the patience to ever-so-gently wiggle a Jenga block out without toppling over the entire tower? Then go with the precision brute force of the Jenga pistol! This bad boy is one of those things that are so simple yet so impractical that they make you (or it made me) say “why didn’t I [...]
Last night, a couple of buddies and myself were talking in gmail chat while waiting for Blizz to fix their fuck-up (in their defense, they got a lot on their plate atm). To pass the time, we were browsing the web trying to find the dorkiest shit possible. My brother found this application for the [...]
