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Have trouble cracking eggs? You're special. Like special special. But thankfully there's the As Seen on TV EZCracker. The $15 pos can crack eggs to extract the whole egg or JUST THE WHITE! OMGWTFOMELETS?! But that's not all, folks, if you call in the next fifteen minutes our lovely operators will even give you their home telephone numbers! Haha, what do you mean I can't say that? Look -- behind you! *SLAP-CHOP*

Video of the commercial after the jump. Looks quality.

I don't think I need to explain the cleverness behind these harmonicas, but in case there's anybody out there that isn't familiar with the NES and its intricacies, I'll copy/paste a quote here for you because I care am lazy.

If you grew up in the 80's and played video games, at one point in your childhood you had to blow on an NES cart, or inside the console itself, to get it to recognize a game...At this point it's almost become cliche to bring it up whenever the conversation turns to classic video games, but that didn't stop one clever modder from attempting to turn a profit on Nintendo's folly.

eBay seller nes_harmonica is the one behind the modding and currently has Super Mario 3, Legend of Zelda and Dick Tracy models for sale. But you know what he's not selling? Happiness. Because, I don't know if you knew this or not, but money can't buy happiness. But it will pay for booze and escorts, which is as close as you can get.

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Clever Modder Hopes To Turn A Profit On An Old Nintendo Folly With Harmonica NES Carts [ohgizmo]

Thanks to cookies & cheese, who, no matter how hard I try, still doesn't sound very appetizing.

This is a real car that runs on coffee. Like, for real, dude. You just drop in, and just smack the lip, WAH-BAP!, drop down, SAN-BAAAAHHH!! And then after that, you just drop in, just ride the barrel and get pitted, so pitted.

Nicknamed the Car-puccino, it has been created using a converted 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco bought for £400 and chosen for its resemblance to the time-travelling DeLorean in the movie Back To The Future.

The car will be driven the 210 miles between Manchester and London powered only by roasted coffee granules.

The team calculates the Carpuccino will do three miles per kilo of ground coffee - the equivalent of about 56 espressos per mile.

The journey will use about 70 kilos (154 lbs) of ground coffee which, at supermarket prices of between £13 and £26 a kilo depending on brand and quality, will cost....between 25 and 50 times the £36 cost of petrol for the journey.

You can click HERE to see an info-graphic on how the car works, but based on the efficiency, I'm afraid we're gonna have to go ahead and scratch coffee off the list of alternative fuels. Hey, it still gets me up and going in the morning though. But so do boner pills. Put a handful of those in your engine and internally combust 'em! You will be driving ALL. NIGHT. LONG. (Best performed with a passenger)

The cappuccino car that runs on coffee... so will you have to use the filter lane? [dailymail]

Thanks to Jeffrey and 23degrees, one of which is an acute angle, the other of which might be the dude.

This is a new commercial for the much-anticipated God of War 3 that's dropping March 16th. It's pretty much the most realistic commercial I've ever seen and the scene will no doubt be replayed in hundreds of thousands of homes across the globe in a scant week. Isn't that right, honey? Honey?! What's up with the luggage?

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Thanks to Sherrie, whose gonna turn the tables on her boyfriend and play the hell outta some God of War.

New York City ran a contest to design a new logo for the free condoms it distributes every year, and apparently some guy won by just using the 'power' symbol and not actually designing anything himself. Nice, you no talent hack.

The city's health department distributes 40 million free condoms every year. But the official design was less than stimulating. Enter the Web. An online contest for a special limited edition wrapper brought out the city's more dirty-minded designers and 15,000 people voted on the finalists.

The winning "power-on" logo was thought up by Luis Acosta, a designer from Queens.

Other entries in the condom contest were more suggestive. There was the image of a manhole. Another wrapper featured a subway train plunging into a dark tunnel.

Man I'd be pissed if I'd entered that contest and actually created something, then Luis comes along and wins with something he didn't even design. But that's the way life goes, you know? Constant disappointment and anger. Plus rage. Shit-ton of rage.

Official Condom Design: New York's New Sex Symbol [npr]

Thanks to Andrea, who came up with a really cool design of two skyscrapers making buttlove but didn't win because apparently all the really awesome designs were disqualified.

This is a raygun blaster car decal made using the traditional elements of the Jesus fish. They come in black and silver (picture of silver after the jump) and cost $5 shipped in the US, $6 internationally. It's just a spoof on the Jesus fish design and isn't intended to have any deeper, anti-religious meaning than that. But is that gonna stop you all from flame-warring it up in the comments? No, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT WJWD. Now, let's Christian side-hug this thing out.

A shot of the silver and a link to the seller's Etsy page after the jump.

You gotta admit, that's a pretty clever Photoshop job. Granted not as clever as any of your ideas, but that's because you're so smart and creative and should probably be hired by some company and paid a million dollars a year just for thinking all day. Unfortunately, life isn't fair and neither am I at card games or "pick a number". 7? Nope, it was 2. Well, break's over -- it's back to Hot Topic for you, my friend.

Hoboken Exit Repurposed As Ryu Combo Guide [jalopnik]

Thanks to Ford, who can take pictures while driving because he's a car.

Remember the jackass that tried exploding his little terrorist genitals onboard Northwest Flight 253 over Christmas? Well the BBC set out to investigate exactly what kind of damage a crotchful of PETN could actually do to a flying jetliner.

The BBC did a test on an old decomissioned 747, putting a dummy with the same type and amount of explosives found on the underwear bomber. As you can see in the above video, the flexibility of the outside of the frame allowed it to absorb the blast. If the bomb had gone off, the plane would have still been able to fly and land.

Of course, the damage inside the plane still would have been horrific. But it's nice to know that the trusty 747 can stand up to such abuse.

Oh man, had I been on that plane I would have put the hurt on that guy. I'm talking "make you wish pterodactyls had never invented flight in the first place" kind of hurt. I'm talking Prehistoric Hurt Locker. Oscar-winning tie-in FTW! Goldguy me, bitches.

Boeing 747 Survives a Simulated Underwear Bomb Blast [gizmodo] (with more info on why the test was legit despite the cabin not being pressurized)

Thanks to Suzanne and Archibold, for having two normal names for once. Except Archibold.

It's the Tron you've been asking for ever since you decided it was socially acceptable to start asking for a Tron: sleeker designs, motorcycles that can swerve, sexier Tronettes, nicer furniture... an albino Tron David Bowie/Jim Carrey's Riddler? YES:

Continue Reading "'Tron Legacy' Trailer: Tron Has a Nice Couch"

This is a hookah somebody made out of an old computer case. Why'd you want to do that is beyond me, but I've given up on understanding why people do things. Except peeing outside, I totally get that. It's like, you're one with Mother Nature, you know? Almost like she's holding it for you. Anyway, back to this Compukah thing. To me it really looks like a -- what's the word I'm looking for? Ah, thank you. Yes, a giant piece of shit.

YaHookah! The computer you can smoke [instructables]
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DIY YaHookah! PC Mod: The Computer You Can Smoke [nerdapproved]

Thanks to Mary Jane, who, I see what you did there. You are a clever girl!

I've known UV light tattoos have existed for awhile, but I've never seen such good use of the idea until Matty posted this picture on Geekologie's Facebook page. So yeah, props to whoever this is having them go all the way to the fingernail, I'd figure that would hurt. Of course, I said the same thing about jumping in front of a bus to save an old lady group of elementary schoolchildren on a field-trip chaperoned by nuns. And kittens -- did I mention the kittens? Yeah, there was a whole basketful of really cute ones.

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Thanks to Matty, who's considering a UV tattoo because he knows his mom would kill him if got a visible one.

"Color me up!" toilet paper serves as some sort of advertisement for some sort of company. I can't really read it, but their logo looks like a meditating Rasta. But that's not what's important, what's important IS YOU STAY BETWEEN THE LINES. Also, I think they could have included some green and black and yellow sections instead of making them all brown. Now, do your best and maybe mommy will hang one on the fridge.

Color By Numbers Toilet Paper [walyou]