The ultimate school prank: Astronomy observatory transformed into giant R2-D2

I don’t want to hear any of your stories claiming that your school prank was the “coolest ever”. Unless you are one of the individuals behind Carleton College’s Astronomical Observatory remodeling, sit down.

The R2-D2 Observatory — How fitting. Bigger picture right inside…

Looking for ways to tweet? Mount a coffee cup to your car roof…

I don’t know about you, but when I see a clever usage of Twitter whether it’s a tweeting beer keg or a tweeting cat, I find myself smiling and realizing the overall joys in life are small, nerdy, and just plain innovative. Innovative isn’t what some would call “GitEmSteveDave’s” crazy Coffee-on-a-car contraption with other honorable mentions being “dumb”, “stupid”, “retarded”, etc. I have a sense of humor and practice using it every day. It appears Steve has one too as the picture above shows his hobby — finding ways to tweet about things. And so the “RoofCoffeeCup” was born.

The gist is straightforward. He took a simple coffee cup and used two powerful magnets (pacemaker users beware!) to keep the cup from sliding, falling, or rolling off of his roof. See, easy as pie (never did quite understand that). After the painless install, he simply drives around and watches peoples’ reactions and tweets them accordingly. So far he’s had 13 honks, 5 along side riders, 4 double takes, 3 points, 3 stoplight tells, 2 laughs, 2 mimes, 1 flash, 1 wave, and 1 cute girl taking his picture.

Might I add that last one is reason enough to mount a paper cup to your roof… If you find his idea inspiring and would like to try it out for yourself, make sure to tweet all incidences and reactions on Twitter with the #RoofCoffeeCup hash tag.

• Steve’s Site

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Have a laugh at someone else’s expense with the “USB Computer Prankster”

We’re all about fun here at GS so when I stumbled upon this little digital gizmo, I was immediately intrigued. The “USB Computer Prankster as it is titled features a few tools that will make playing a joke on your closest friends or relatives all the more fun. As you can see from the image above, the device will unleash all sorts of shenanigans on the keyboard, mouse, and caps lock. Just imagine sitting down and starting a paper only to find the computer take off on it’s own mission. Such are the abilities of the Computer Prankster — making the individual being pranked generally unamused. That is until you reveal that it was all just fun and games.

If fears of “enter” and “close” commands being entered before saving an important document crept into your mind, put it to rest. The Computer Prankster leaves it’s digital hands off of those keys for the obvious reasons. Finally, the time delay ensures you are clean and clear before your victim ever suspects anything weird. All of this tom foolery is relatively affordable at only £19.99 ($32 USD). “Available soon”. I’m sold. You?

Watch out Gib…I’ll get you when you least expect it

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