There aren’t many “sports” more stupid than “extreme ironing”.
Via Laughing Squid.
Archive for April 2011
Brewdog, a brewery famous for it’s way-out-in-left-field beers, has said that they’ll release a beer containing “herbal Viagra” to celebrate the upcoming (*cough*) Royal Nuptials in England.
A limited-edition beer containing herbal viagra to mark the forthcoming royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29th. Brewed using various well known aphrodisiacs, the limited edition artisanal beer will only be available to buy from the BrewDog.com website.
According to the specially commissioned label, the Royal Virility Performance contains herbal viagra, chocolate, Horny Goat Weed and ‘a healthy dose of sarcasm’. The beer is a 7.5% ABV India Pale Ale and has been brewed at BrewDog’s brewery in Fraserburgh.
That’s almost as stupid as FourLoko
I wish there was a gun store next door.
Personally, I think the juxtaposition is really strong here, but apparently, some people were offended.
Mourners really tend to have no sense of humor, you know?
This one comes from the Daily Mail, via the Consumerist
This one comes via Gizmodo:
He's got a case of the mondays.
Ok, so it’s a fun idea to think about, but a really bad idea to build:
“Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetic euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster, engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements that induce various unique experiences: from euphoria to thrill, and from tunnel vision to loss of consciousness, and, eventually, death. Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful. Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster…”
Whoa. This one comes via @warrenellis. Read more here: http://www.deconcrete.org/2011/04/05/euthanasia-coaster/
This one comes from ReadWriteWeb:
Researchers in Gujarat, India have created a “memristor” — a portmanteau of memory and resistor — made of human blood. A resistor is the part of a computer chip that regulates the flow of electricity. Unlike most resistors, a memristor remembers previous levels of voltage and allows for a repeat of that flow.
Awesome. I, for one, welcome our new vampire robot overlords.
Read more: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/your_next_computer_may_be_made_ofblood.php