@gryt - "Would any of you geniuses approach a bear mom, with her cub in distress no less? "
Having had a recent rash of bears dawdling through my neighborhood - NO. If I see a bear cub with it's head stuck in the drain gate, and mama trying to free it - I let her do her thing. If she cannot manage after what I feel would be an appropriate amount of time, I call Fish and Wildlife. Let them handle it.

{RANT}It is unfortunate though that this would have to be done. Food for bears has gotten scarce in this area, so many are roaming inhabited areas looking for food.
Stupid idiotic morons leave food out for the bears. Or they leave bird feeders out, forget to clean their BBQ grills. Leave grass clippings fermenting in a trashcan.
These people who think it would be helpful to the bears or think it is cute to see a bear in their yard are in fact harming the bears.
Twice as many bears this year so far have had to be euthanized because they have become accustomed to people and have no fear anymore.
A fed bear is a dead bear. {/rant}

Heh - you can find those "designer no label" brands at the flea market. The same place where I can get a genuine Praga or Guggi purse for twenty dollars. :P

Morinaga makes some weird food products, and some of the best candy. I know that they are also the first company in Japan to have introduced pancake mix to consumers.
But hells yeah I'd try it. I used to be(still am) the kid who liked to lick the bowl for cake batter and pancake batter.
It probably tastes better than Batter Blaster.

I wouldn't poo poo the idea. That scale would tell me if I was full of crap or not.

I would think that it was a viable product due to all of the odd medical quackery in the early part of the century.
However, most of the patents filed by that individual, had to do with filtering solids.

You mean there are people who do not know you can buy a box of the stuff, instead of looking through shoe boxes for it?

Yay for Glenn and Wikipedia!!

I wonder what would have happened had they put 32 glowsticks in it?

@ noua, ted, myra and gryt > Why don't you submit your neato post to the upcoming queue?

Cute octopus is Cute.

I learned how to "hack" a masterlock and a combo lock. But that only came out of necessity of not having a bolt cutter around. But after the fifth one, it became fun. Guess I could compete in the beginner category. :P

@ Molly - that totally looks that way. that was my first thought.

I only wanted to win an ipad so I could practice my accordion playing when having my actual accordion was not convenient. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHeEmKQ_uI&feature=
Neither makes me elite or geek. Just someone who sees a practical use for it.

That was funny. Gives me a great idea for halloween party prank.

It is not radium folks - remember the other week when the video of how to make glow sticks was posted? It is only "toxic" if you ingest those 32 glowsticks. If you get it on your skin or eyes, it can be an irritant.

The main ingredients in most glow sticks are dibutyl phthalate and hydrogen peroxide.

looks familiar > http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/06/past-war-and-present-peace-the-siege-of-leningrad-then-and-now/

Sorry. You still want free internetz?

I remember the ones from Freddies. They were actually better designed and were made from better materials than that cheap booty pop thing.