Before its downfall and bankruptcy, Kodak was a pretty big player in the camera game. That being the case, it makes sense that they had their own nuclear reactor hidden in a bunker in upstate New York. Or wait, maybe it doesn’t. Either way, Kodak did have a secret reactor in Rochester from 1978 to 2006, complete with more than three pounds of enriched uranium, uranium one might be inclined to call “weapons-grade.” Yeah. Take that Polaroid.

In what is likely the best use of pasta you’ll see today comes this cookbook from the Gerstenberg Publishing House. As the title implies, it’s a cookbook that you can eat. And we’re not talking just edible paper here — this is the big leagues. Each page of the book is printed on a sheet of delicious pasta, and the entire book is meant to be read and then baked as a lasagna. Finally, the perfect way to sate your literary and literal hunger.

You’ve played games like Fallout 3 or Oblivion where you can traverse a huge, predesigned world, and Minecraft, where you can traverse an infinite number of procedurally generated ones, but wouldn’t it be cool if there was an open world game of Earth? Like, all of it? You can probably see where I’m going with this; there is an engine that can do exactly that, it’s called Outerra, and it has a free tech demo that you can download right now.

17-year-old Stacey Irvine of Castle Vale, Birmingham was living the dream until just recently; she’d been subsisting on a diet primarily composed of McDonald’s chicken nuggets, sometimes — but rarely — straying from the staple for some KFC or a piece of toast. Just recently, however, it all caught up to her when she had trouble breathing and collapsed. She was taken to the hospital where doctors found swollen blood vessels in her tongue and the prescense of anaemia and promptly loaded her up with vitamins. Considering she has had neither fruit nor vegetable — outside of ketchup, maybe — in 15 years, it’s a small miracle she didn’t also have scurvy.

LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” has always made me think of a pet rock in a party hat. It looks like LiteralMSPaint made the same connection. Even if you’re sick of the song, check out this hilariously literal MS Paint version. Oh, and put your hands up to the sound. Put your hands up to the sound. Put your hands up to the sound. And shuffle. Everyday.

If you’ve ever wanted to wash your car easily and then never have to wash it again, I’ve got the method for you. Of course, you’ll never have to wash it again because it will have been totaled, but that’s no biggie, right? The real downside is having to pay for that huge truck.

So if you’ve looked at a Guitar Hero game and thought to yourself “man, this isn’t nearly simplified enough,” I’ve got something for you. It’s called the TabStrummer guitar and it will let you play entire chords with the press of a single button. That’s right, you only need one finger to play guitar now. Okay, well, one finger on each hand. The TabStrummer is its own standalone device, so you can bring it camping and play crazy cyber-tunes around your electronic fire, or something.

It’s always good to know how much punishment your mobile devices can take. I make a point of finding the limit of all my devices, usually by spending their entire lifespans abusing them until they inevitably break. If you’ve got a Sony Reader PRS 300, you can take it 300 feet underwater because professional divers Mark Thurlow and Robin Jacoway do, and it works just fine.

While that’s the basic concept, it’s a little misleading so, allow me to explain. The reason the readers can work under such pressure is that they are fitted with a custom-machined, metal casing created by GATES, underwater housing specialists. Also, this doesn’t say much about the durability of that particular model of Sony Reader because it was chosen chiefly for its small size; it can fit into a suit pocket during the dive. Not that you have any use for one anyways, but the beefy cases are not available for purchase yet. Who knows if they ever will be. Still, good to see that the eReader industry is thriving at 300 feet under.

If you’re a conspiracy theorist, you know that half the fun is putting it all together. The other half is gradually losing the support of your friends and family as you slowly slide down the rabbit hole of paranoia and stop bathing and eating in favor of constructing ever more intricate tinfoil hats, but putting it together, that’s were everyone gets hooked. With that in mind, Tamiya, a Japanese plastic model company, put together its “Put It Together” ad campaign featuring plastic model sets of famous conspiracy theories.

Unfortunately, these things don’t actually exist, and neither do the model sets. It’s rather fitting though, because every good conspiracy theorist knows that it’s all about putting it together in your head, because the physical evidence is nonexistent. Putting it together in your head and then keeping it there with tinfoil.

You think you know what couch surfing is? Well, you’re wrong. These guys are the ones who got it right. At least they would have if the rider had stood up. But I’m willing to give it to them anyway.

Using a decidedly 70′s couch and bolting something to the bottom of it, these guys created what might be the best furniture-based water vehicle that can be towed behind a speedboat. It seems to go pretty well for a while, but stick around til the end to see the inevitable capsize and the inevitable slow-motion replay of the capsize. All in all, well done. I hope they go on to literalize other figures of speech as well.

(via reddit)