Araldite Fusion Lab
September 24th, 2009
Quickfire game with flatscreen TV prize. Shoot glue at falling prizes, be careful they fly out quick, you may need to Araldite your fingers to the Mouse!! Play Here
Bert and Ernie get their freak on! – ft. M.O.P.’s “Ante Up”
September 14th, 2009Bert and Ernie like you’ve never seen them before…
If you haven’t seen this yet, you should be ashamed. Or not. But watch it now! I haven’t seen a better dub done before; the guy who did this is highly talented.
Dangerous Biscuits – How to Avoid Biscuit Injuries 101
September 11th, 2009Can’t believe I’m posting about this, but the guys over at Fox’s Rocky Biscuits have recently commissioned a study into which biscuit is the most dangerous. We here at Rubber Towers love our biscuits – particularly chocolate digestives, if the more recent purchases are to be believed, and find it hard to accept that our beloved snacks could be harmful. Apparently people have actually been visiting their doctors because of biscuit-related injuries. And which is the most dangerous of them all?: the deadly Custard Cream (although how they worked this out, I do not know).
Here is a bit more about their finding
‘Mike Driver, Marketing Director for Rocky said: “We commissioned this study after learning how many biscuit related injuries are treated by doctors each year.
Accidents have included people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit, falling off a chair while reaching for the tin, sustaining burns after dunking a biscuit in scalding tea, and being hit by fragments flying through the air.
Other people have reported choking on crumbs and damaging a tooth or filling on a particularly hard biscuit. One unlucky person ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.’
So how can you avoid such nasty accidents? Well for one, if your biscuit falls into freshly poured concrete, don’t go after it. Not only will you get stuck – as apparantly one person already has – but the biscuit itself will probably be inedible, due to being covered in concrete. Seems like common sense, no?
Ha! Common sense doesn’t seem to be quite so common these days (I have come to refer to such things as having ‘good’ sense, rather than it’s more well known moniker), but that’s for another post. Even so, visiting your GP because of being hit by ’stray biscuit shrapnel’ would seem a tad extreme.
If you’re munching away on your Hobnobs, please make sure not to spray crumbs, drop it in your tea, or put it too near to your eye, lest you do yourself a mischief.
And with that, I shall leave you with the full results of the inquest:
‘According to Mindlab’s calculations, here is the full list of the UK’s riskiest biscuits, together with their ‘danger’ rating:
Custard Cream 5.64
Cookie 4.34
Chocolate Biscuit Bar 4.12
Wafer 3.74
Rich Tea 3.45
Bourbon 3.44
Oat Biscuit 3.31
Digestive 3.14
Ginger Nut 2.99
Shortbread 2.90
Caramel Shortcake 2.76
Nice Biscuit 2.27
Iced Biscuits/Party Rings 2.16
Chocolate Finger 1.38
Jaffa Cakes 1.16′
(via MSN News)
Sour: Omokage No Saki (面影の先) & Hibi No Neiro (日々の音色)
August 25th, 2009I’m a bit of a J-pop/J-rock fan (that’s Japanese pop/rock to those who are out of the loop. Where have you been?!). This was probably influenced by the copious amounts of Japanese cinema and Anime that I like to watch, and the fact that if I lived in Japan, I would probably be considered an Otaku ^_^ (sugoii!). So I thought I’d share this with you:
Not only are Sour a very interesting and uplifting band, they’re also purvayors of fine stop-motion and cinematic techniques, as demonstrated by the above video, and this one:
Whether or not you’d really class them as J-pop, I don’t know. I’m not sure how far separated into genres Japanese music goes. But they have a pretty big fan base worldwide, and I have to say, they’re very much worth a listen.
What a way to spend your lunch break: the great Slam dance
August 12th, 2009Some late afternoon hijinks for you 
Somehow I don’t think this would work if it was anyone else dancing…
Giant Waterslide Jump
August 10th, 2009We’d like to pretend we made this viral video, but despite it having a similar concept to our GI Joe Skate stunt, we didn’t.
It looks pretty realistic, even though it most certainly isn’t real…
G.I. Joe – A Brief History
August 5th, 2009As you should be well aware by now (unless you’ve been living under a rock or on Christmas Island), the new G.I Joe movie launches this weekend, for the UK anyway. Here’s a little thing about the history of the G.I. Joe franchise for the uninitiated – rather insightful stuff if you ask me, if you’re interested in the origins of the “original” action figure.
A post for keyboard-users
August 3rd, 2009This post might help you go ‘ROFL’ or ‘LMAO’, depending on how cool you are.
(If this isn’t amusing for you, either shame on you or check this out for an explanation:Wikipedia)
Choose a Different Ending
July 20th, 2009Perhaps not the most light-hearted of posts today, but definitely very intriguing!
In light of the recent increase in knife crime in London, the Metropolitan Police has started using the Internets to help bring it down again (the main website being www.droptheweapons.org). One of the measures is creating an interactive Youtube video story, which starts with this one:
At the end of it, you’re presented with two choices, and clicking on one of them takes you to the next video, where you again have choices, etc. Think of those books where you can choose your own story, except in video form and slightly more grim (if you make the wrong choices, that is…)
It is pretty transparent and hardly a challenge to choose the “right” ending (Not wanting to ruin it for anyone, but it’s usually best not to take a knife in a video created by the Police…), but I still like it because it’s definitely a novel way of fighting crime, has surprisingly good acting and does hit home hard.
Try out the path that you’d choose, then play around with some alternatives to see what would happen if you’d gone the other way…
G.I. JOE Delta 6 accelerator suit skate stunt
July 15th, 2009We think this is pretty cool and we thought you might too…
G.I. JOE Delta 6 accelerator suit skate stunt
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It’s not all work and no play for G.I. JOE operatives. Check out the Delta 6 Accelerator suit in action on a half-pipe earlier this summer.
The Accelerator suit has been specially designed to enhance an individual’s natural speed and power while also offering them maximum protection. That said, even with the full body armour, that fall has got to hurt!
