Beware of my Trunk Monkey!

Does somebody owe you money? Send them some Nigerian Money Collectors?

Which car is faster over a quarter mile?
Race two of your favorite cars head to head with The Quarter Mile Simulator.
I want an Enzo! (via The Presurfer)

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics strikes a blow for decency in movie physics! Want to know how many bullets can be fired by a real machine gun? If the gold in The Italian Job could be really driven around in Minis? Why falling people are always attracted to glass? This is the place…

Night of the Living Dead has become public domain! Download this scary classic…Bring the popcorn and don’t forget to browse The Internet Archive. They have a huge collection of videos, audio, text and web resources…free knowledge.

Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi has invented concrete blocks that thanks to an array of fiber optics lets light shine through. LiTraCon products are expected on the market at the end of 2004…So be patient and put off building that house of yours until you can get the walls to light up!

Read an article from Optics.org.

Every day lots of new inventions are patented…Some are innovative, some creative, and some are just far out. The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to showing you the most outrageous inventions along with their explanations.

What’s next in entertainment devices? The iPod3…a full immersion VR trip. Excellent animation, I only wish it were real!

Type has become so commonplace that we barely notice it anymore…The Untitled Project isolates the text from its original graphic design. Type and graphic are separated giving a new perspective on the interaction between the two. (via Kottke)

Theres a new trend in construction equipment…or so I think. It was about time that all the young, cool, black-shirted construction workers got some gear that doesn’t make you them look like a dorks. Hoodlum welding has some pretty impressive welding hoods…and Death Stick makes the coolest looking hammer ever. This gear could take serial killing to a new level!

Origami, the art of folding paper (Japanese ‘ori’, to fold, and ‘kami’, paper) combines simple folds to make extremely detailed designs. Hojyo Takashi’s website has a variety of superb designs…and to think that it is only paper.

This is something I’d love to have in my living room:
The Periodic Table of Elements with the real elements inside…Pity that you can’t have the radioactive stuff!

Perpetual Motion Machines are hypothetical machines that make energy from nowhere. In order to work they have to break the First or Second Law of Thermodynamics. A lot of time and effort has been invested in inventing one, but all of it has been in vain… Eric’s History of Perpetual Motion features a comprehensive list and links to the many that have tried. Perpetual Motion Pioneers shows some of the best efforts, and Is Perpetual Motion Possible? has some good animations that will show you how some of these machines are supposed to work.

Last year I went to visit my dad in Miami, He lives there now. We were both watching TV, and a sitcom (can’t remember which) came on. It had been a long time since I last watched American TV…anyway, I was caught off-guard by the fake dubbed laughs. I don’t need to be told when to laugh! Read a Short History of the Laugh Track…and have the last laugh.

Law of Nations:

In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water;
in a developed country, don’t breathe the air.

from The House of Murphy.