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It’s my room in a box.
It’s my room in a box.

The perfect product for all the perma-bachelors out there, Casulo is an entire bedroom set in a box. It will come in really handy if you have a habit of not paying your rent and need to do a lot of midnight moves.

Wah Wah Boots
Wah Wah Boots

I’ll admit I’m being a bit selfish with this post. If you don’t play the guitar, the following video will just be a dork wearing giant tinfoil boots. But if you are a guitar player, well… better loosen your pants.

Ant Megalopolis
Ant Megalopolis

Someday I hope someone pumps 10 tons of cement into my house to see how I live.

When You Wish Upon a Turd
When You Wish Upon a Turd

Space, the final frontier… for your bum. Nobody said being an astronaut was easy.

In space no one can hear your water balloon scream.
In space no one can hear your water balloon scream.

NASA has been hard at work since the moon landing sending astronauts to Mars and building a lunar colony. Oh wait, that’s what NASA’s doing in an efficient dimension. In this dimension they send people to space to pop water balloons in zero gravity. Okay, that’s still pretty sweet.

Rankosaurus (for Firefox)
Rankosaurus (for Firefox)

I’m happy to announce that Rankosaurus now has full support for Firefox. If you’re going to be using Rankosaurus for the first time, follow the easy steps listed after the jump. If you’ve already installed Rankosaurus, but want to take advantage of the new Firefox support, then uninstall your old version and install the new version available on the download page.

GlobalIncidentMap.com
GlobalIncidentMap.com

If you’re not already living your life in a state of fear and paranoia due to the constant threat of terrorist attack, then this Google Maps mashup is sure to help you along the way. Find out what horrible event (or boring false alarm) happened in a town near you.

Well, you know my name is Simon
Well, you know my name is Simon

In Crayon Physics Deluxe, the things you draw come true. It’s a lot like this academic program, except it’s actually a game and you should hopefully be able to buy it without requiring several rounds of academic funding.

Working Transformer Robot
Working Transformer Robot

Someone created a working Humvee Transformer with a Bioloid Humanoid Robotics Kit and it’s surprisingly cool. It’s quite the little dancer too!

Left Brain vs. Right Brain Test
Left Brain vs. Right Brain Test

If you look at the animation after the link and see a girl spinning clockwise, then you are a ‘right-brain thinker’ (creative). If you see a girl spinning counter-clockwise, then you are a ‘left-brain thinker’ (logical). If all you see is a set of boobies, then you are ‘male, likely between the age of 13 and 65′.

Philippe Petit: French; Not a terrorist
Philippe Petit: French; Not a terrorist

On August 7th, 1974, French high wire artist Philippe Petit performed an illegal tightrope walk between the two as-of-then incomplete World Trade Center towers.

The Apartment at the Mall
The Apartment at the Mall

In 2003, Michael Townsend and seven other “artists” decided to build an apartment in the parking garage of a mall in Providence, Rhode Island. They took turns living in the apartment for up to three weeks at a time, until the end of September 2007 when Michael was caught by mall security.

Giraffe Fight
Giraffe Fight

Giraffes and I have a lot in common. Whenever I get in to an altercation, I like to slam my face in to my opponent as much as possible. I always wake up a few hours later with my opponent nowhere to be seen, and that my friends, is called victory.

Whoa, I know kung fu.
Whoa, I know kung fu.

Some Russian artists have created a headset that allows you to view the world like Neo from the Matrix, or like someone who has licked one toad too many.

Rankosaurus
Rankosaurus

Rankosaurus is a cool new tool for capturing, organizing, and sharing screenshots of highscores you get in online games. From now on, all highscore screenshot submissions on Dig Your Own Grave will have to be done using Rankosaurus. To celebrate, the leaderboards for Ragdoll Avalanche and Cubefield have been cleared. So check out Rankosaurus and go get some medals!

Waved Albatross
Waved Albatross

I don’t want anyone to say they’ve never learned anything from Dig Your Own Grave, so this particular post is going to be very edumacational in terms of nature and the wildlifes and such. These two birds are of the Waved Albatross species, and what they are doing in this video is making sweet sweet albatross love.

If you go out in the woods today…
If you go out in the woods today…

You’ll probably run face first in to a massive spider web, become entangled, and then get devoured alive by mutant spiders. This is especially likely if your woods are in Lake Tawakoni State Park in Texas. The spiders there, clearly not wanting to be outdone by the giant tent caterpillar nest, have created a spider web stretching over 200 yards.

Virtual Barbershop
Virtual Barbershop

As a world renowned rocket surgeon, I don’t get much downtime, so I really relish the hour a week I spend at the salon getting my locks moisturized. Now with this holophonic recording of a barbershop, I can recreate that relaxing sensation in my rocket laboratory. Make sure you listen to this with headphones, and close your eyes and picture yourself in a barbershop for extra effect!

Tactile Tabletop Synthesizer
Tactile Tabletop Synthesizer

reactable is a collaborative musical instrument operated by moving and rotating physical objects on its surface, a.k.a. the most wickedest coffee table ever.

Grim Rea-purr
Grim Rea-purr

Oscar the cat, named after the delicious weiner, lives at the dementia unit at the Steere House Nursing And Rehabilitation Centre in Rhode Island, and he seems to have the uncanny ability to predict the death of the residents to within four hours. When someone is going to die, Oscar snuggles up on their bed with them. Obviously there is a logical explanation for this - Oscar is killing the patients.