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crazy englishman
A businessman in the UK has come up with a novel way to deal with potential thieves: firing chickenshit at them from a 30-foot catapult. Joe Watson-Webb, a retired showman, had the iron trebuchet left over from his days as a showman, and gets his avian ammo from the farm next door. Local cops have said that they will prosecute Watson-Webb if he uses the catapult to defend his property against arsonists and robbers—but what would they think about the other weapon he has up his sleeve? Watson-Webb is also the proud owner of a 20-foot-long cannon, out of which he used to fire his wife!
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Thirty-Foot Trebuchet Fires Chicken Poop at Potential Thieves
A businessman in the UK has come up with a novel way to deal with potential thieves: firing chickenshit at them from a 30-foot catapult. Joe Watson-Webb, a retired showman, had the iron trebuchet left over from his days as a showman, and gets his avian ammo from the farm next door. Local cops have said that they will prosecute Watson-Webb if he uses the catapult to defend his property against arsonists and robbers—but what would they think about the other weapon he has up his sleeve? Watson-Webb is also the proud owner of a 20-foot-long cannon, out of which he used to fire his wife!
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sillypants humor
MacBook Air Eject Key's Rumored Alternative Actions
In case you haven't noticed yet, there's an eject button at the top right corner of the MacBook Air keyboard. There's no disc drive, but you push it, something pops out. Somewhere. Click. Schwing. Poop. Some people say this key ejects the optional SuperDrive, but after countless—or maybe just three—days of in-deep investigation in cocktail bars and going through the trashcans outside Jonathan Ive's house, we've compiled a list of potential actions: More »
roundup
Afternoon News: Poop-Sniffing, Pancake-Eating, Vegas-Going Spammers
• A Purdue professor is paying students $30 to sniff animal poop and using the research to improve estimations of odor emissions on farms. It's days like this that I am happy I went to Indiana University. [11alive]• Dealzmodo: All-you-can-eat pancakes at IHOP?! Why am I still sitting here? [Dealnews via BBG]
• Alan Ralsky, a notorious spammer from West Bloomfield, MI (sort of my home town!) was indicted yesterday on 41 charges of swindling millions of dollars by using penny stock scam emails. Good riddance. [Detroit Free Press]
• Did we mention we're going to Vegas? The weather doesn't look great, but just about anything beats another day in frigid New York City. [Weather Underground]
stinky tech
Street Lights in India Powered By Poop
Yes, you read it correctly: The street lights in the Indian town of Thiruneermalai are run on digested curry. As National Geographic describes it, the human waste from an area housing complex collects in a sump, where the methane gas produced by the "sludge" is used to operate a generator. This biogas produces 3,000 watts of electricity daily, enough to keep the town bright at night. And you thought ovens running on garbage were gross. A friend who lived there this past spring tells me it never smelled bad, but then again, he's been known to generate a fair share of biogas himself. (Just kidding, Gelf!) [National Geographic]
4:20 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Benny Goldman
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45 comments
outta space
Canadian Astronaut Reveals What Happens to Space Poop
The question of how astronauts go to the bathroom has been answered before (vacuum, thigh clamps, peen tube, in-bowl camera — sounds like a night out at my favorite after-hours) but do you know what happens to the, ahem waste product? Well, according to Col. Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency, it gets recycled as a shooting star. Details on how to do your ablutions in space after the jump. More »
charmless charm
Japanese Turd Flashlight Is Thankfully Not a Medical Gadget
If what's missing from your life is a light-up poop, then fear not, because your happiness is sitting in a Japanese vending machine. Epoch, purveyor of the USB darts board, has come up with the weirdness that is a flashlight shaped like a turd, or Unchi, as they are known over in Japan. More »
4:54 AM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Addy Dugdale
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printers
Kodak 10 Cents-a-Pop Printers Tested [Verdict: the Pops are Poop]
Remember Kodak's latest multifunction printers? The ones Kodak was all cocky about, claiming that they crushed the competition with amazing photos at 10 cents? Well, according to Popular Photography, it's all a big pile of steaming bull dung. More »
gadgets
Can Japan's Cans Can Your Can Bran?
If Sir Mix-A-Lot was an ass connoisseur, the entire Japanese toilet manufacturing industry must be ass artistes, masters, professionals, virtuosos, and wizards. If you're at all interested in how your rear is treated before, during, and after doing your business (this is how they justified the article), check out BusinessWeek's feature gallery on Japanese toilet. More »
gadgets
Barbie Scoops Poop, Dog Desperately Hungry
This one has us scratching our heads: there's Barbie with the pooper scooper, dutifully disposing of little turds, but what's that in her dog Tanner's bowl, and, uh, in his mouth? That must be one hungry dog. Do I detect a shit-eating grin on his face? More »
gadgets
Babykeeper Holds Baby As You Poop
Not a gadget in terms of being powered by electricity, this Babykeeper harness keeps your baby safe while you use the facilities at ball games, strip clubs, and crack houses. Hold on Tommy, daddy's gotta drop a deuce! Who's a good little boy, who's a good *uuuuuughn* little boy! More »
cellphones
Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm
Did you know that Japan's favorite and best selling cellphone strap is a golden poop? Tokyo Mango reports that over 2.7 million of the little shiny turds, said to be good luck charms, have been sold. There's even a version in a baseball mitt, for "catching money". Mitt, and info on purchasing, post jump.More »
11:00 AM on Fri Oct 6 2006
By Brian Lam
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18 comments
cellphones
Sony Ericsson K800i Available Soon In Brown
If the basic black and grey color of the standard K800i isn't to your liking, perhaps you'll enjoy the 3.2 megapixel cameraphone in something a bit more...poopy? The Sony Ericsson k800i is going to be available in brown starting September, exclusively in the Hong Kong and Taiwan region. After that, it'll flow all over Asia, into Europe, spreading its caramel goodness into hands of eager consumers everywhere. More »
5:19 PM on Thu Aug 17 2006
By Jason Chen
5,698 views,
4 comments
cellphones
Dog Turd Cellphone Cover
Ummm... some Chinese students... erm... did these designs for cellphone covers or something and they, uhhhh, put some fake grass and a dog turd on a NEC N355i. And, erm... well, you see it there... see the grass? And the turd? Yeah. They're both there... ummmm... More »
11:42 AM on Fri May 26 2006
By johnb
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4 comments
