21-year old Kevin Scott designed a bicycle that should be harder to steal than most conventional bikes. The frame can be folded in half and the whole bicycle wrapped around an immovable obstacle:

The De Montfort University graduate used a ratchet system built into the frame of the bike to allow it to wrap around a pole, enabling the lock to be wrapped through both wheels and the frame.

Securing all the bike's components within the lock was his aim in creating the new bike. It also allows the bike to be stored in small spaces.

The frame can be ratcheted tight to allow the bike to be ridden like a normal bike, but it can be quickly loosened to allow the frame to be bent back on itself.

Link via CrunchGrear | Photo: [deleted upon request]

Entertainment and celebrity gossip site Gossip Cop is confirming rumors that Mike Judge and MTV are bringing back the 90s cartoon Beavis and Butt-Head:

Series creator (and main voice) Mike Judge is reportedly putting together 30 new episodes to continue the adventures of his articulate animated heroes.

Specifics of timing and format are still being resolved, but the process is underway.

Link via Nerd Bastards | Image: MTV | Previously: Real Life Butt-Head?

Anything is better if it's made with bacon, put in a can, or called "tactical". Hence the Candwich, which is either a peanut butter & jelly sandwich or chicken sandwich. In a can.

The company has gained public attention due to a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a money manager's allegedly fraudulent activities, some of which were invested in Mark One Foods, the company that owns Candwich.

In the meantime, Candwich is still on hold and, sadly, not yet available consumers.

Link via Geekosystem | Image: Mark One Foods

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YouTube user Keshen8 makes great stop-motion LEGO videos. Two years ago, we featured his reworking of the trailer for The Dark Knight in that medium.

Recently, he uploaded this video, which shows a street shootout that looks like a scene from a third-person shooter video game.

via Geekologie

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YouTube user ButterflysBone recorded her pet turtle desperately trying to get the attention of her pet cat. Cat, here's some advice: there are some people with whom subtlety does not work.

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Only five days? That's all?

Wives spend 7,920 minutes a year nagging their husbands about household chores, their drinking and their health.

This equals two-and-a-half hours of earbashing each week - which totals 11 hours a month or five-and-a-half days a year.

A study of more than 3,000 people carried out by health campaign group Everyman concluded the most common subject women nagged their partners about was not helping to tidy the home.

I read it in The Daily Mail, so it must be true.

Link via Jammie Wearing Fool | Photo: Alamy | Previously: Psychologists Found Out That Nagging Doesn't Work (Duh!)

Kiel Johnson made this costume that looks like a man rendered in 8-bit pixelated art. It's called "8-Bit Gary." His site doesn't state directly how he built it, but at the link, you can view many in-progress of the project.

Link via GearFuse | Photo: Hyperbole Studios | Previously: 8-Bit Costume, Shawn Smith's Pixelated Sculptures

Scientists used geographic modeling software to come up with a realistic answer to an unrealistic question: what would happen if the earth ceased its rotation?

If earth ceased rotating about its axis but continued revolving around the sun and its axis of rotation maintained the same inclination, the length of a year would remain the same, but a day would last as long as a year. In this fictitious scenario, the sequential disappearance of centrifugal force would cause a catastrophic change in climate and disastrous geologic adjustments (expressed as devastating earthquakes) to the transforming equipotential gravitational state.

The lack of the centrifugal effect would result in the gravity of the earth being the only significant force controlling the extent of the oceans. Prominent celestial bodies such as the moon and sun would also play a role, but because of their distance from the earth, their impact on the extent of global oceans would be negligible.

If the earth's gravity alone was responsible for creating a new geography, the huge bulge of oceanic water—which is now about 8 km high at the equator—would migrate to where a stationary earth's gravity would be the strongest. This bulge is attributed to the centrifugal effect of earth's spinning with a linear speed of 1,667 km/hour at the equator. The existing equatorial water bulge also inflates the ellipsoidal shape of the globe itself.

Link via Nerdcore | Photo: NASA

The car blog Jalopnik got an email about this unique go-cart, built by a man named Dave:

A whopping 6.5 hp, 32 mph, twin-throne action, and all the TP you can stand. Ain't America great?

We get emails like this all the time. "Come look at my toilet go-kart," they say. "It's the best toilet kart in the world," they say. "You'll love it, and you can flush your cares out the exhaust, and seriously, 32 freaking mph on a twin-pot crapcan that just might kill you if you look at it funny."

Link via DVICE | Photo: Jalopnik

Have you heard of the proposal to end the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by nuking the site? At DVICE, Kevin Hall writes about other engineering schemes that involved using the explosive force of nuclear weapons in peaceful (if perhaps crazy) ways. For example, if the Panama Canal is too narrow, just blast a wider channel with a few controlled explosions:

We could have all grown up with the Pan-Atomic Canal instead of the Panama Canal we know today. That is, if Operation Plowshare ever took off (the government's term for using nukes in construction, including the highway-blasting idea above and the harbor you're about to read about below). Building the Panama Canal was a long, deadly process. Also many ships are too big to traverse the canal. To make everything easier, why not just nuke it wide open? Well, radioactive fallout was a huge concern, and that fear even scrapped plans to use atomic bombs to create entirely new canals.

Link | Photo: US AID

Allert Jacobs spent three years and $5,000 building a motorcycle that gets 200 miles to the gallon. It's based on the Honda Innova design, but heavily modified to make it more aerodynamic:

He first built a resistance-reducing nose cone in 2007, in an attempt to increase his Honda Innova 125i’s 114-mpg rating. That design fell short, so he built a 1:5 scale model, followed by a full-size polyurethane and wood mold. By 2009, he was crafting the fiberglass shell. Steel tubes welded to the bike’s frame attach it, and a frame and rails added to the front of the bike allow the front of the shell to slide forward like a door and lock shut. Last winter, he even made aerodynamic cones with indicator lights for his side-view mirrors.

Most of the mileage boost comes from the aerodynamic shape, but Jacobs also converted the bike’s automatic clutch to manual to keep it from slipping. Altogether, the changes worked: On one long trip, the bike got 214 miles per gallon.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2010-06/you-built-what-aerocycle | Photo: Hans Pieterse

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Do you remember the powered shoe laces from the movie Back to the Future II? Instructables user blakebevin made one and provided instructions on how you can build your own:

Why wait until 2015? Inspired by 'Back to The Future II', this project is less 'Practical' than 'Proof of Concept', but hopefully it'll tide you over until Nike comes out with something more polished. This was also the first time I worked with an Arduino microcontroller, and I wanted to get some experience with the little guy. Operation is quite simple- step into the shoe and a force sensor reads the pressure of your foot and activates two servo motors, which apply tension to the laces, tightening the shoe. A touch switch reverses the servos. Due to budget constraints, I only modified one shoe. Where did I put that darn sports almanac?!

Link via Make

Steven Leckart of Wired compiled a gallery of enormous photos of the cockpits of six extreme vehicles:

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (a military jet)

Oasis of the Seas (a cruise ship)

Hydrogen ICE Streamliner (a rocket car)

Grave Digger (a monster truck)

Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (a jetliner)

Triton 1000/2 (a personal submarine)

Pictured above is the cockpit of the Blackbird.

Link via The Presurfer | Photo: Dan Winters | Previously: Gallery of Military Aircraft Cockpits

In the 1970s, BP and a gaming company called Printabox made a board game about offshore oil drilling. It was called BP Offshore Oil Strike:

Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.

But BP Offshore Oil Strike players must also avoid the dreaded ‘hazard cards’, which state: ‘Blow-out! Rig damaged. Oil slick clean-up costs. Pay $1million.’[...]

The mint-condition game, made by Scottish company Printabox, was donated by a private collector to The House On The Hill Toy Museum in Stansted, Essex. It was very rare and ‘obscure’, said museum owner Alan Goldsmith, who added: ‘The parallels between the game and the current crisis... are so spooky.

Link via Kotaku | Photo: Masons

Oddee has screenshots of ten funny Amazon.com reviews, such as this customer's complaint about faulty packaging for a shipment of uranium ore. What a ripoff! I hope he got his money back.

Link via Ace of Spades HQ