i think it's time for some more demolition

and i don't just mean the walls i recently tore down in my room (cracked foundation -> water damage)... no i'm talking about a neat video that is apparently an episode of a british tv show called brainiac... i believe the thermite video i blogged about before (but whose previous link got broken) is also from that show - which really makes you wonder, what other destructive things have they done for the camera?

this one involves dropping miniscule quantities of alkali metals into a bath tub full of water... i remember my highschool chemistry teacher demonstrating both sodium and potasium reactions with water, but nothing like what happens with these more obscure metals ever happened in my highschool chemistry class (at least not while i was present)...

as always, i love me some demolition... kaboom!

urinal based video games

more from boingboing... it seems that some folks are such compulsive gamers that they have to figure out how to play video games while relieving themselves, and this didn't just happen once but at least twice... i love how the second one has worked out a way for girls to play too...

now they have to figure out how to incorporate number 2... i'm envisioning a bird's eye view of military targets scrolling by down below, and of course the words "bombs away"... or perhaps instead of military targets one could see a more literal bird's eye view of cars and people's heads, but ultimately with the same interface...

biodegradable phones?

y'know, it's things like this that finally make me realize what the real reason for creating biodegradable consumer electronics is - it's the environmentally friendly (and thus politically correct) version of planned obsolescence...

i think the reason the cell phone companies want biodegradable cell phones is because people hold on to their phones for too long... if the phone starts rotting after a little while then you're basically forced to purchase a new one and thus pay more money to they cell phone companies...

very alien plants

i saw alien planet on discovery channel a while ago and i found its depiction of alien life forms very interesting (though the preference for bipedal creatures over quadrapedal creatures was a little unrealistic)... as such it's definitely worth a visit to boingboing to see this Video: plants with lots of eyes. Ew ew ew ew.... not just eyes, either, but also beaks and various other alien things...

and the graphics are incredibly realistic (much better an that alien planet show), which is part of the reason why the video is so creepy...

convergence in the animal kingdom

ok, so what animal creeps you out the most? is it a spider? a rat? a snake? maybe a bat?

i know that some folks are really afraid of snakes and now it seems they've got a whole new reason... flying snakes... ok, so technically they don't fly any more than flying squirrels fly, but still... check it out, they even have video footage...

personally, i'm not a big fan of anything that has the gift of flight, and the thought of a snake swooping down on me from some tree somewhere is kinda scary... it's like nature took an already imposing animal and mixed in one of the few abilities other animals have that could actually make it worse...