Gadget retailer Kotula's now offers a camoflage toilet seat that hooks into your trailer hitch receiver for those times when nature calls out in the middle of nature.

If you buy this product, be sure to follow the warnings provided at the website: the maximum weight is 500 pounds and you should not use this gadget "when vehicle is in motion."

http://www.kotulas.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10001&productId=11260&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=16551&top_category=10081 via Nerd Approved

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I find this video strangely addictive. It has bunnies eating, but the way that it's presented, it looks like they're singing. And they're singing an even more strangely funny song, which I can't identify. And the split screens somehow make it exponentially more amusing. Yet, despite the inanity, I find myself watching this over and over again. It's like furry crack. RT: 2 minutes, 42 seconds.

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The Matrix probably would have been less exciting if the movie had to be restarted every ten minutes and the Agent Smiths inexplicably froze up during fight scenes. College Humor offers this parody of The Matrix in which the network operates on Windows XP.

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Honda has developed a machine that helps disabled people walk and workers who must kneel a lot to avoid strain on their joints. Guided by one's own motions, it provides partial bodyweight support. Follow the link for more pictures and a video.

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A demonstration of several Wii games being marketed to rednecks, such as Drinkin' Alone and Horsin' Around. From College Humor, 2 minutes and 24 seconds long. HT: Urlesque

A 6-foot tall Lego figurine washed up on a beach in Brighton, UK. This follows a similar incident on a beach in the Netherlands back in August.

You probably had the same first thought that I did: scouts for a Danish invasion force.

Link via Geekologie

Computer science students at UC San Diego have written a program that can duplicate keys from security camera photographs:

The team demonstrated the software at ACM's Conference on Communications and Computer Security 2008, where students showed off the technique up close and from afar. They took close-up shots of keys with a cell phone camera. Then, using a 5-inch telephoto lens, they stood on top of a building and took photos of keys sitting on a table 200 feet away. In both examples, they were able to capture sufficient data to create duplicate keys.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/ucsd-software-a.html

British inventor Keith Dixon has invented a lounge chair that uses repelling magnets between the seat and the base to allow users to float a few inches off the ground. It's one of the items that will be featured at this weekend's Stuff Live gadget fair in London.

Company site and Reuters article via Geekologie

Well, shoot, I always found Ichi-Kun Ichihonei pretty hot, but I'm already married.

Taichi Takashita launched an online petition aiming for one million signatures to present to the government to establish a law on marriages with cartoon characters.

Within a week he has gathered more than 1,000 signatures through the Internet.

"I am no longer interested in three dimensions. I would even like to become a resident of the two-dimensional world," he wrote.

"However, that seems impossible with present-day technology. Therefore, at the very least, would it be possible to legally authorise marriage with a two-dimensional character?"

Link via Geekologie.

Geekery blog Topless Robot links to a translation of a Japanese story that purports that the character in question is Mikuru Asahina from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Major problem with Takashita's plan: Japan doesn't allow polygamy, so only one person can marry an anime character at a time.

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Pretty clever:

The blade carries a small electrical charge. This charge is continuously monitored by a digital signal processor. When contact is made, the human body absorbs some of the charge, causing the voltage to drop. The drop in voltage triggers a quick release aluminum brake. A heavy duty spring forces the brake into the teeth of the spinning blade. The teeth dig into the aluminum, stopping the blade cold. The blade's momentum forces it to retract below the table, and the motor is automatically shut off.

Via Geekologie

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Here's the trailer for Chris Lund's online film The Outbreak, in which you, the viewer, select how the main character responds to different choices. It's sort of like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, but in the form of a well-made film. Content Warning: profanity.

Link via Double Plus Undead

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Phil Clandillon and Steve Milbourne of Sony/BMG have composed a video for AC/DC's "Rock N' Roll Train" using Microsoft Excel. You can even download the .xls file and run it on your own computer.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/acdc-music-vide.html via J-Walk Blog

For a mere $670,000 you can own an Action Mobil Global Cruiser Expedition Vehicle. It has a 781 cubic inch turbodiesel engine, weighs 21 tons, and carries 219 gallons of gas and 154 gallons of water. On the roof are four 240 watt solar panels to power the luxurious interior amenities. I'm sure that Alex and Miss Cellania are already bankrolling Neatorama's vast revenues into purchasing this vehicle in preparation for the coming zombie apocalpyse.

Link via DVICE

Just as some dolls are made to wet themselves, the "Dismember Me" Plush Zombie is made to be torn apart, limb by limb and organ by organ. Note that tearing various limbs and organs out is useless unless you first rip out the brain.

Link via Geekologie, where there's a video of these dolls attacking a group of hapless cubicle drones.

Hunter Stabler is a Philadelphia-based cut-paper artist who slices up sheets of paper in order to create elaborate sculptures. Above is "Baba Yoga Misquotes the Face to Steeleye Span."

Link via Fallon and Rosof