Here Is A Stupid Idea That Is Stupid

Hey there!  You know how, each morning, you have a cup of hot coffee and then mess around on your phone, reading Facebook updates or whatever?

And you know how, every time you do that, you wish that your phone was simultaneously being charged and that your coffee was getting cold faster?

No?  What's that?  You're saying that your phone is already charged because it's morning, and that you'd like your coffee to stay warm longer?  WELL THEN DO WE HAVE THE PRODUCT (not) FOR YOU!

The Most Awesome Thing In Space (If You Have The Maturity Of A Twelve-Year-Old)

There's a lot of science that's kind of boring if you don't understand it or its implications.  I get that.  But there's also a lot of stuff that's awesome in the world of science, despite being almost literally unbelievable when you first hear about it.  This is one that I was perusing recently that, upon further thought, is hilarious if you have a dirty mind.  I'll show you.

Death From The Skies! Or Something.

First of all, the first sentence of this post's title is taken from Phil Plait's book of the same name, which is  awesome.  It looks like this.

You should buy it and read it, and then make all the people you know do the same thing.  It's a really good book and Phil is really cool and here is his website also, from which I will be drawing heavily for this post as well.  Be internet friends with Phil Plait, is what I'm saying.

ANYWAY, I assume by now that you've all stopped crapping your pants over the recent spike in falling-space-object-related news, so I thought I'd offer you a quick recap of what happened, why it happened, and the likelihood of it happening to you.  And stuff.

Electrolux's Ten Design Lab Finalists (Are All Fucking Stupid): Part Two

Last week, we talked about the first five finalists (I don't think they're ranked in any way) of the Electrolux Design Lab Competition.  All of them, as you may recall, were the product of the drug-fueled raves/Photoshop parties that I have no choice but to believe are the chief activity of all design students.

In my head, they take ecstasy and hang out in the CAD studio, and then when they wake up on Monday they give a name to whatever's on screen and call it revolutionary.  I, not being on ecstasy, ruin it for the rest of you.

Anyway, here are the other five entries.

Electrolux's Ten Design Lab Finalists (Are All Fucking Stupid): Part One

Think back to what you were doing on Wednesday, September first, 2010…  Don't remember?  It's ok, I do.  You were eagerly reading through that morning's blog post from your favorite internet writer (me) because I assume you're all loyal and dedicated readers who have been with me from the start.

The headline in question was this one:

Click here to go read the article because you know you want to.

In it, I tore apart the design and concept because it is stupid, stupid idea.  I did, not, however, talk much about where the design came from until the end, when I said this:

"This came from a design competition sponsored by Electrolux, they of the tiny washing machine.  This design made the top 25 best submissions, which means that either they only had 25 submissions total or that no one at Electrolux has noticed that this violates the most rock-solid laws of physics that we know of.  And I have.  It saddens me."

So this year, when I came across the top ten finalists from that same competition, you bet your perfectly sculpted asses (I also assume, until proven otherwise, that all of my readers are breathtakingly attractive) I had to take a look at them.

They are mostly, much like last year's, very, very, stupid.