Fill it with either liquid soap or hand sanitizer, this genius dispenser by Giant Microbes will be sure to remind you to wash your hands! Shaped like the common cold virus, only millions of times the size, we seriously can't think of anything more clever.

mmm... Germs.

ModCloth Vintage Inspired Fashion Common Cold Soap Dispenser

This alarm clock was covered on MemeStreams back when it was a prototype. Now its a product you can order! I think if I had this it would roll under my bed and it would be a huge pain to get it out.

The alarm clock that runs away and hides when you don't wake up. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off of your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time.

Clocky is now available for sale!

It may help you to know that the audience broke out laughing more than a few times. Brust is known for his sarcastic dialogue and his cheerful violence, and it serves him well here.

An audience member asked if Brust could get rights to publish it. Brust: “Good question. I’m workin’ on it. It’s a complicated question because of the question of, Universal having the rights, Joss having ideas on what books he wants, if any. Latest rumor is that there aren’t going to be any books because the movie didn’t do well enough. So I have no idea. What I am hoping, what I am sort of expecting once I figure out how this works is to publish it as fanfic. Just cuz I like it, I wrote it, I wrote it because I wanted to, and I’d like to have it out there for people who want to read it.”

Brust's writing style would suit this series like a glove. I hope this finds its way to a book store or a tracker sometime in the near future.

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Colbert on O'Reilly:

O'Reilly on Colbert:

Colbert meets O'Reilly

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

That does sound too good to be true.

Well, shit... Maybe I should take up smoking again.

Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - health - 17 January 2007 - New Scientist

Makes storing your knives a cathartic experience!

We'll get right to the point with this product - it's a wicked cool design for a knife holder and certainly a lot more edgy than the standard old block of wood. We're not sure who the designer might have been thinking of when he created this but we definitely like the results. And it includes five knives!.

This unique artistic knife holder is made of heavy duty ABS plastic and will be the talk of the party! It's an innovative knife suspension system with individual protective knife sleeves for each blade. The five knives are made from heavy gauge durable stainless steel. The slots are magnetized to secure knives in the holder. Overall, we'd say The Ex Knife Set is very cutting edge!

Thank God for pictures on Memestreams!

-janelane

ThinkGeek :: The Ex - Unique Knife Holder

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But an exception is possible though: the one and only animal few have heard about before. It is called Liger, and it is a bizarre and rare combination of a tiger female and a lion male. Check out this video to convince yourself!

A liger resembles a giant lion with diffused stripes. They are the largest cats in the world, although the Siberian Tiger is the largest pure breed. Like tigers, but unlike lions, ligers enjoy swimming.

Ligers grow much larger than lions and even larger than the largest tigers, which can weigh in excess of 437 kg (976 lb). The largest non-obese Liger, known as Hercules is said to weigh over 544kg (1200 lb), well over twice the size of a male lion. Hercules was also featured in Maxim magazine article in 2005, when he was only 3 years old and already weighed 408 kg (900 lb) at the time. The liger is the largest animal in the cat family. feline family Felidae.

Neat. Looks like they'd make great pets. That thing would use my whole apartment as a litterbox.

Bigger Lions or Tigers Impossible? Watch this! - Science News - Playfuls.com - Science & Technology

Scientists on Wednesday changed the time on Chicago’s Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight, or the apocalypse, based on what they said is the “most perilous period since Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” during dual announcements in London and Washington, D.C.

"We foresee great peril if governments and societies don’t take action now” to offset climate change, said astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has warned that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to colonize space because of the increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth.

People here have been saying the clock needed some winding for awhile now. It's official, the sky is falling.

MyFox WGHP | Countdown to the Apocalypse: Scientists Change Doomsday Clock

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night to see two giants in fish suits dancing in front of the wardrobe in my bedroom. Obviously, like most people, my initial instinctual response was to jump into the air while yelling at the top of my lungs and tackle the beasts. While I was in mid leap, I remember thinking... "Damn..I NEED to start double checking my door locks before I go to sleep... I didn't even hear them come in!" In reality the fish people were merely some sort of bizarre hallucination, so instead I crashed into a full length mirror hanging on my wardrobe door and glass flew everywhere. I had a good laugh at my self generated late night entertainment. And to think I didn't even need to get drunk before I went to sleep. Perhaps they'll be back, I'll bet they'd make great sushi.

Tissue culture meets art = creepy and apparently delicious

The Tissue Culture & Art Project