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Cautionary Tales Gadgets Hints & Tips

Biker’s Revenge

Now this is stroke of (evil) genius.

Created by Matt Braun and Jared Delorenzo, two students at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Biker’s Revenge is a pair of handlebar key plugs that will vandalize anyvehicle getting too close to your personal bike space.

Don’t try this on me though. You key my car, I’ll find you, like a bleeding dog in the snow ;)

More images after the jump.

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Mindlessness Weirdness

Do Not Lick the Photocopier!

You never know who has “used” it before…. [NFSW]

– thanks Orangie Cookie ;)

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Awesomeness Music Video Clips

Madcon: Straight Outta Norway

When it comes to music, it’s like I’ve been stuck in a dark closet playing with myself my toys. Once in a while, I find a track that distracts me from the carnal pleasures and gets me hip-hopping. And that track is Beggin’ from Norwegian hip-hop duo Tshawe Baqwa and Yosef Wolde-Mariam. Hear it once, you won’t be able to shake it ;)

Beggin’ by Madcon

Beggin’ original by Frankie Vallie/The Four Seasons

Visit Madcon on Myspace.

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Animal Kingdom Cautionary Tales Weirdness

How to Make a Zombie Cockroach

Mother nature can be a cold-hearted bitch sometimes, and she must have been having really bad PMS when she introduced this creature of unrelenting horror.

The Emerald Cockroach Wasp is a brightly coloured parasitic wasp that utilizes a combination stings and poisons to inject its eggs into a host to incubate. When it comes time for the female wasp to lay her egg, she searches out a cockroach, lands on top of it, and stings it twice. The first sting mildly paralyzes the front legs of the cockroach, and the second sting into the roach’s brain neutralizes its normal escape responses. Now for the cool bit – the wasp chews off parts of the roach’s antennae and uses them like a leash to lead the zombified roach to a burrow! Why walk when you can drive right?

Once they reach the burrow the real horror begins – the wasp lays an egg on the roach’s abdomen and fills in the burrow entrance with pebbles to prevent escape. Once the larva hatches, it chews its way into the abdomen, and eats the roach’s internal organs in an order which guarantees that the roach will stay alive-ish. The larva then forms a cocoon inside the roach’s body, and after about four weeks, a fully-grown Emerald Cockroach Wasps emerge from the roach’s body to begin its adult life.

More horrifying parasites found HERE.

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Awesomeness Flash Games

Space Pips: Shoot Those Space Muthas!

The hottest Geometry Wars-style action seen in a Flash game! Shoot those space muthas.

Use the arrow keys or W-A-S-D to move; aim and fire with the mouse. Your defeated enemies leave behind “pips”, which should be collected and spent at “Space Shop” for upgrades. Avoid everything, shoot everything!

Go to it!

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Cautionary Tales Entertainment Video Clips

The Overthinker

This is what happens when you’re on a date and you think too much. EXACTLY what happens. Every time.

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Science & Technology Weirdness

Wood Chopper From Hell

This is just what I need to deal with my uncooperative neighbours.

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Site Announcements

BumpTop Desktop: A Beautiful Mess

BumpTop is a new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can create a complete mess of the desktop by randomly tossing documents, or piling them up, or pinning them to boards, much like you would do with a real desk. It’s a movement away from the standard point-and-click desktops.

Watch as Anand Agarawala demos his BumpTop Desktop on TED.

BumpTop is not publicly available yet. Click http://bumptop.com/for more info.

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Cautionary Tales Hints & Tips Mindlessness Useful/Useless Info

High as a Kite: Top 10 Common Myths About Cannabis

Doobie, dope, roach, reefer, weed, Mary Jane, boom, splif, ganja – 10 common names for cannabis. Now here are the 10 common myths about Cannabis.

10. Fat Storage

Myth: Cannabis’ active ingredient THC gets stored in body fat and its effects can last days or even weeks.

Fact: It is true that cannabis (like many other drugs) enters the body’s fat stores, and it is for this reason that it can be detected long after use, but that is the only part of this myth which is true. The fact is, the psychoactive aspects of the stored cannabis are used up quickly and while the residue of the drug remains, it no longer has any effect on the person. Furthermore, the presence of THC in body fat is not harmful to the fat, the brain, or any other part of the body.

9. Memory Loss

Myth: Cannabis use causes memory loss and a general reduction in logic and intelligence.

Fact: This is another myth which has elements of truth to it – no doubt the reason it is believed by so many. Laboratory tests have shown that cannabis diminishes the short term memory – but only when a person is intoxicated with it. A person who has taken cannabis will be able to remember things learned before they took it but may have trouble learning new information during intoxication. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever to suggest that this can become a long-term or permanent problem when sober.

8. Scientific Proof

Myth: Cannabis has been scientifically proven to be harmful.

Fact: Let us start with a quote: “the smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health.” This quote comes from the peer-reviewed British medical journal The Lancet (founded in 1823). There is certainly no scientific consensus on cannabis use, and certainly no scientific proof that casual use is dangerous to health.

Hit the jump for more myths or go to The List Universe.

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Weirdness

Emergency Yodel Button