You mad, Bro? Yes, Bro-Crab is Quite Mad, Bro

I don’t know why these crab are walking across a road seemingly nowhere near water, perhaps they’re looking for chicken. All I have to say is if you come across a crab and for whatever reason decide to pick it up and play with it, keep it the hell away from your face.

Do Want! A Human Slingshot

During my daily wanderings around the inter-webs, I stumbled upon this video of an awesome people Sling Shot. That’s right, owned by the Pope family in Hobble Creek, Utah, it gets pulled back by a quad ATV and shoots their friend towards a wall of trees only to pull them back via bungy cord.

I don’t care how dangerous this may be, this is the perfect activity for a large backyard barbecue.

Pope family, if you ever read this, I want an invite next summer.

Giant Croc? Kill it, Kill it Quickly!

The Bunawan township in the Agusan del Sur province captured a saltwater crocodile that has weighed in at over one ton. It took three weeks of “huntng” to capture the impressive beast. According to Mayor Edwin Cox Elorde, the crocodile was witnessed attacking and killing a water buffalo last month, and is also suspected of attacking a fisherman who went missing in July.

This is obviously a case of exaggerated evolution. An example of the earth prepping it’s creatures to extinguish the plague of humanity from it’s surface. If we have any hope of survival as a species, we must rid the world of this behemoth and it’s eventual progeny.

Kill it with fire!

Source:  Geekosystem

Like Free Stuff… Free Broken Stuff?

Picture not related, but isn't Tux cute?

That’s right folks, free stuff! Maybe. ThinkGeek is considering giving away all their junk returns to those that are interested in doing something with them. I’m not sure what we’ll use this stuff for, but we’ll figure something out when/if this gets instituted.

From ThinkGeek…

We have a problem. And it’s growing at a rate proportional to our return pile.

We can’t, in good conscience, resell damaged electronics. And we can’t donate them to charity–the saddest kid in the world is one with a handheld video game that won’t turn on. Garbage, then? Not good for the environment.

Luckily for us, there’s an entire class of scavengers out there ready to pick the bones of our helicopters, keyboards, and interactive t-shirts: hackers, makers, and crafty techy types.

Whether it’s in a school’s technology lab, or a FIRST Robotics team, or your neighborhood hackerspace, we’re betting somebody out there would enjoy getting a box of broken stuff from us every couple of months–and then use the parts and piecesfor good, not evil.

Hit the link here to find out more and sign up for consideration.

The Ultimate Water Training – Pool Sprint Concept

We’ve all unfortunately seen that big group of old people, “working out” in the pool, and tried with all desperation not to vomit all over the place. Seriously, who has ever heard the term Water Training and not had to immediately picture Jessica Rabbit bending down to pick up a penny in order to get the image of old saggy skin and turkey necks out of their heads?

Well now, Finnish designer Pyry Tamminen is working on changing the image of water training all together. He’s created a concept called Pool Sprint that is basically submersible rubber track which allows a runner some traction when wearing special water shoes. It looks like fun

I really hope this concept takes off. Working out in water could be pretty fun once you get rid of those neon colored foam tubes. Why should Astronauts and Science Fair winners be the only ones to work out under water? Imagine, one day we may get to go the gym and work out like this

Pyry Tamminen has made a few working concept models but is looking for investors. You can contact him here.

(via DesignBoom)

The Power of the Internet! Support Net Neutrality

ONE: Hit play and learn a bit about Net Neutrality from Will Wheaton, Mythbuster’s Adam Savage and a bunch of other people making more money via the internet than me.

TWO: Go to SaveTheInternet and do your civic duty.

(via Phampants)

Who want’s a Lego Printer? I Do I Do

I played with Legos every day when i was a kid. I never got one of those pre-designed kits though. No sir, no directions for me, I used pure creativity, well, that and pictured of what i was attempting to make. Well it seems as though this guy over at B3ta never quite grew out of Legos, (Do any of us? My parent’s just threw them out when they thought I was too old for them), and built himself a printer. Its quite impressive. It’s bricks, a motor or two and a felt tip fraking pen. Ingenious! Not only is it an awesome display piece, it uses the cheapest ink you can get. He’s got it hooked up to a mac, but I won’t take points off for that …this time.

I’m making one for the Linux box.

(via PC Pro)

How To Solve Computer Problem Like A Computer Geek

Continuing on a theme here, above you will find a flowchart directed at all “non computer people”. If you run across a computer problem first see the flowchart and you will save your computer friends time and sanity. The comic was created by XKCD author Randall Munroe. We here at Idylum love his site and suggest you check it out.

Mini Calendar for 2010

When I worked in an office I was always given one of those ginormous calendars to put on my wall and use for appointment tracking. In all honesty I wrote in it maybe three times as I rarely use analog writing devices anymore. If you’re like me, you probably only use it to check what day specific events are falling on, right? Well, there is no longer any need to waste valuable wall space that can be better used to mount posters of mildly SFW models, (or pictures of your kids and family if you’re into that type of crap). Grafish Design came up with The Small Calendar, and the method of usage is simple. Start with the date, say the 19th, then follow that column until you intersect with the desired month: March 19th will be on a Friday! Months are handily color coded for length, too. Follow the link to check out their page.

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