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Crazy Alarm Clock Dials Your Friends If You Don't Wake Up

We've seen alarm clocks institute some fairly unorthodox methods of waking users up, but this is exceptionally high on the list of "oh, no they didn'ts." Alice Wang's Tyrant, which we can only assume is a concept, actually dials a random number in one's mobile contact list for every three minutes that the sleeper doesn't address the obnoxiously loud ringing. In other words, unless you pick yourself up out of bed within ten minutes of the alarm going off, you'll have three angry friends wondering why they're getting phone calls from you
everyday
at O-five-hundred hours.

Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance. [Source: Alice Wang Via Coolest-Gadgets]
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EasyChair WorkStation Solves That Whole "Get Out of Bed" Dilemma


It's time to take a long, hard look at where we're headed as a society. No, really -- we've got office chairs coming to kill comradeship, specially designed lapboards made to keep you sedentary for as long as humanly possible, and now we're looking at the perfect device for keeping Earthlings in bed for days on end.

The EasyChair WorkStation line of products essentially puts your laptop on wheels, and the adjustable boom arm ensures that you can reach the keys / trackpad regardless of which side you wake up on. We're hearing a bedpan attachment is in the works as well, but we're feeling entirely too lazy to actually check.

[EasyChair WorkStation Via TechDigest]
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Laptop Cakes Pay Homage to Internet Dating


Shockingly enough, the image you see above isn't as radical as you probably think. Just last year we saw a San Francisco couple profess their inexplicable love for TiVo with a his and her cake arrangement, while another treated guests to a flavorful version of their wedding day playlist. This perky pair, however, decided to create cakes that would visually describe just how they ended up together, complete with on-screen profiles and a crossover cable (or something) with a heart along the way. Gives a whole new meaning to the networking category, now doesn't it? [Source: Make: Blog]
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What Would Facebook Look Like in Real Life?

Okay, so you're on Facebook and have connected with dozens of friends, half of whom you haven't actually seen in years and, if you ever did, it would probably make for some uncomfortable conversation. What would it be like if one of them came knocking at your door, asking you the sort of questions Facebook asks when making introductions?

We're thinking it would look something like the above, a sketch from a British comedy team called "Idiots of Ants;" a group of blokes who have obviously been the recipient of some random friend requests over the years. Watch and see that they've got represented it perfectly, from the initial "poke" right down to graffiti on your wall. [Source: Idiots of Ants, via AOL Video]
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Typewriter Mistaken for Bomb, Shuts Down Street

Suspicious Typewriter Detonated in FloridaThis may sound like a joke, but trust us, it's true. In Sarasota, Florida, streets were closed after a typewriter was reported as a suspicious package. And while many of us may not remember what one of these pre-PC word processors looks like, the senior citizens in Florida should have no excuse.

In the spirit of complete disclosure, the typewriter was inside its briefcase-like carrying-case and stashed in a locked cage under a stairwell in a county parking facility. The package was doubly suspicious since the only people with access to the cage would have been county officials.

Following standard procedure for a post 9/11, terrorism-obsessed world, the local bomb squad was called in. It proceeded to detonate the typewriter, then discovered it was just a typewriter.

Check out the gallery below so you, too, don't mistake an ancient writing tool for a weapon of mass destruction.



From SNAFU-ed

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Online Series Turns Candidates Into 'Star Wars' Characters


It is never going to stop being okay to spoof 'Star Wars' or to make fun of politicians. Gabe Abelson, a former writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton, obviously knew this when he started working on the second installment of his animated web series 'Race for the White House' (RFTWH).

Barack is Luke Skywalker, Giuliani is Han Solo, Hillary is Princess Leia, and best of all Dick Cheney is a shotgun wielding Obi Wan, who shoots an Ewok in the face.

AniBoom, the year old start up that hosts the series, allows content creators to upload new content and collaborate on traditionL TV concepts. The Comedy Central show 'Lil' Bush' started as a Web short on AniBoom.

From the New York Times

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Fun Facts About Facebookers Revealed

College Humor Surveys Facebookers
Comedy Web site College Humor has taken it upon itself to prove what we all already suspected: Social networks are just there to embarrass you. College Humor recently asked 26,000 users of the social networking site Facebook (about 1 for every 1,000) a series of questions about how and when they use Facebook. Here's what if found:
  • Only 90 percent of men and 96 percent of women have read every book on their favorites list
  • Almost half of men and women admit to drunken Facebooking at least occasionally
  • Well over 60 percent of men and women have used Facebook to stalk an ex
  • 15.5 percent of men have ... um ... pleasured themselves to Facebook
As terrifying as some of that may be, we can't help but imagine that asking the same questions of MySpacers would have even more horrifying results.

From Tech Crunch and College Humor

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Attack of the D.I.Y. iPhone Ads!

Whether inspired by the real iPhone ads, or Conan O'Brien's hysterical parody (in which the iPhone is reported to also function as a cheese grater, sideburns and many other things ... ), a slew of do-it-yourself iPhone ads have hit the Internet in feverish anticipation of the June 29 release. There's the hilarious biPhone ad (above), this artsy gem uncovered today by our friends at GeekSugar and dozens more that were part of a win-an-iPhone contest put on by Insanely Great Tees (sorry, the entry deadline is over).

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Hilarious Conan O'Brien iPhone Spoof

As we approach the June 29 mega-launch of the iPhone, Apple is hyping the crap out of itself with new TV ads showing off all of the handset's impressive functionality. In honor of the new ads, we present this classic Conan O'Brien spoof showing that the iPhone is much more versatile than Apple is letting on. You name it, the iPhone does it -- even sideburns.

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