Moby Dick typed on Toilet Paper
Auf Ebay kann man grade das Ergebnis einer Wette ersteigern: Moby Dick, abgetippt mit einer Schreibmaschine auf 4,7 Rollen Klopapier. People… what a bunch of… people.
My friend and I once joked that toilet paper should have instructions printed on them for certain people. One day, the conversation grew from there and turned into a wager that I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) be able to type out a novel on toilet paper. Yes, we did have some time on our hands but, as you can see by the following photos, i won the bet.
There are four full rolls, one roll (epilogue) is about 1/5 of a roll and one half-roll. All of the rolls of tp came out of a brand new — clean — package of 2-ply cottonelle. They’ve been handled very gingerly and infrequently. As you’ll see in the following photos, one or two rolls have a tear at the beginning, this is where I was trying to pull the paper through the typewriter.
I’ve kept this mod oddity in a box in a cool, dry place for the last 10 years and have only broken it out to prove to doubters that I actually did it
Cloo – Toilet-Sharing-App
Cloo soll eine App zum Social Sharing von Toiletten werden, Pee2Pee-Sharing sozusagen. Und ich habe die Befürchtung, die meinen das wirklich ernst. Da das ganze allerdings bei Hillary Young unter „Fun Stuff“ abgelegt ist, gehe ich davon aus, dass es noch nicht allzu dringend ist.
CLOO’ is based on one simple truth— we all have to pee. Though in urban cities finding a clean, available restroom is difficult & frustrating. That’s where CLOO’ comes in.
CLOO’ is a community of registered users who choose to share their bathrooms and make city-living easier, while earning a small profit. Using social media connections, CLOO’ shows what friends you have in common with the host, turning a stranger’s loo into a friend of a friend’s loo.
Cloo (Danke David!)
Yoga-Man lurks in the portable Toilet
What the fuck is this I don’t even…
Boulder police are looking for a man who hid in the tank of a portable toilet at a yoga festival before running off. A woman at the Hanuman Festival went into the portable toilet Friday and noticed something moving in the tank when she lifted the lid, according to police spokeswoman Kim Kobel. […]
A security supervisor then waited outside for the person to emerge. When he did, the supervisor tried to get him to sit down, Kobel said, but he ran off, covered in feces.
The suspect, who was not wearing a shirt or shoes when he came out of the toilet, was described as a white man in his 20s wearing gray sweatpants, around 6-foot-5 to 6-foot-8-inches tall with a skinny build and black hair. Witnesses also said he had cuts on his back and arms. Some at the festival said he might be a transient who goes by the name “Sky.”
Boulder police: Feces-stained man hid in portable toilet tank, escaped chase (via The Awl)
Toilet Graffiti
Derbe Pieces auf den Klowänden eines Clubs von Deck Two, hier die Herren, hier die Damen, hier der Vorraum und hier ein Skull für… irgendwas anderes. (via We like that)
Piss-Controlled Urinal-Games
Only in Japan. Von Superlevel: „Unter dem Namen “Toirettsu” (トイレッツ) präsentiert Sega nun eine Sammlung von Minigames, die in Urinale verbaut und mit dem Urinstrahl gesteuert werden können“.
Flushtracker – Track your Shit wherever it may go.
Tolles Ding für die World Toilet Organisation zum World Toilet Day: Ein Tracker, der in Echtzeit anzeigt, wie und wo die Exkremente durch die Kanalisation flutschen. Im Bild oben hat jemand am Taj Mahal abgedrückt, für Deutschland ist das Dings leider nicht verfügbar, macht aber nix: Grade hab ich ins Weiße Haus in Washington geschissen. Schön! (via Creative Review)
Innenpapphülsenlose Toilettenpapierrollen
Irgendeine Toilettenpapierfirma hat innenpapphülsenlose Toilettenpapierrollen vorgestellt. Mit den Dingern spart alleine die USA rund 80 Millionen Kilo Müll im Jahr. Grüne Toilettenpapierrollen ohne Innenpapphülsen. Grandios!
The toilet paper roll is about to undergo its biggest change in 100 years: going tubeless.
On Monday, Kimberly-Clark, one of the world’s biggest makers of household paper products, will begin testing Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores throughout the Northeast. If sales take off, it may introduce the line nationally and globally — and even consider adapting the technology into its paper towel brands.
Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet paper (via Gizmodo)
Jim Lee’s X-Men #1 Toilet
Auf Ebay kann man eine Toilette ersteigern, die komplett mit dem ersten X-Men-Heft (der zweiten Serie von 1991) in allen Variant-Covers beklebt ist. Die Auktion startet bei 495$ und läuft morgen schon aus, deshalb habe ich die Bilder von dieser Singularität der neueren Comic-Geschichte mal bei Flickr hochgeladen: X-Men #1 Decoupaged Toilet.
The number one selling comic book of all time, X-Men #1 (1991), sold over 7 MILLION copies. It was released with 4 variant covers and a “deluxe” edition with a gatefold cover and glossy pages.
One of each of the variants along with a deluxe, gave their useless lives to decorate this ’70s era Standard American toilet.
The issues were carefully deconstructed, panel by panel, cover by cover using scissors and X-Acto blades. Hundreds of separate images were glued to every square inch (other than water holes) of the bowl, tank, seat, and lids. The gatefold cover was left intact to cover the tank lid, with smaller images added to cover the fold seams. After the entire tank was “base coated” with layers of images, the 3 covers that featured the members of the X-Men were dis-assembled to eliminate the backgrounds, then attached to the front of the tank. The bowl interior was covered with the assorted full-spread posters that came in the centerfold of each variant. The seat has been covered with the ads from the various companies that advertised back issues, showing the prices for available issues in 1991. The seat lid features the Magneto cover and assorted images of the Master of Magnetism from all the issues. The back of the seat lid features the “Blast From the Past” centerfold poster, with only X-Men as the background, no bad guys or filler pics. The bottom of the seat is glossy images from the deluxe edition only. It’s shiny and makes a wonderful frame for the lid back when opened…..The credits for the issue, along with the indicia, are intact on the base, along with the author’s name in large letters from an ad featuring his novels. After all the separate images were glued in place, they were coated repeatedly, first with the glue sealant, then with 5-6 coats of polyurethane. The whole process took upwards of 80 hours and a full pint of polyurethane.
Piss on your Politician-Prank
Ein paar Punks haben Gesichter von Politikern in Urinalen installiert. Mir fielen ja spontan drölfhundert deutsche Politiker ein, die ebenfalls eine solche Aktion verdient hätten und vielleicht tauchen ja demnächst die Gesichter von Merkel, Westerwave und Uschi auf dem Boden der Pissoirs eurer Kneipe auf, kinderleicht herzustellen und zu platzieren.
Ich jedenfalls werde mir mal ein paar Bundesköpfe ausschneiden und beim nächsten Kneipenbesuch zum Polit-Piss-Dropping parat haben. Dann vielleicht noch ein bisschen doppelseitiges Klebeband für die Langzeitwirkung… (then again: Always watch out what you’re pissing on.)
Pictures of a former Bonita Springs councilman are showing up in some very unusual public places and the story is generating a steady stream of controversy.
When you head to the restroom to do your business, you don’t expect to see a face staring at you – especially one of a politician.
“One of our regulars walked out and said, ‘Whose face am I peeing on?’” said Angela Johnson, a bartender at Lansdowne Street.
Bonita businesses P’d off politician was peed on (via Arbroath)
Morinosuke Kawaguchi auf der TED über japanische Greentech-Robot-Toiletten
(Youtube Direkt, via Core77)
Morinosuke Kawaguchi über die Tradition und die komplett durchdachte Psychologie japanischer, beheizter Greentech-Robot-Toiletten, im Detail. Man berührt das Ding an keiner Stelle des Geschäfts, das Ding heizt im Winter genau dann ein, wenn man sich hinsetzt, per GPS findet man die nächste Robo-Toilet, es hat eine LED-Leuchte zum zielen (!) und so weiter.
Das sehr schöne an diesem TED-Talk ist, dass wir alle die Bilder in diesem Internetz gesehen haben und dachten WTFJapanseriously?! und Morinosuke Kawaguchi die stellenweise tausende Jahre alte Kultur hinter der japanischen Greentech-Robot-Toilette erklärt. Brillant!
Technology Consultant, Subculture-driven Innovations Expert Morinosuke Kawaguchi loves geeks. Whats more, he fashions solid notions for tweaking technology and other products from his close observations of Japans vast, inventive otaku (geek) subculture. His approach to geekdom and monozukuri—the creative process—and how they present a competitive advantage in R&D has made him an icon in Japan.
Hes renowned as a strategy expert in the management of technology, intellectual property and technology combined with innovation in telecommunications, electronics, cars and other businesses. Morinosuke, who currently works as a Japanese technology consultant at Arthur D. Little Japan, also lectures in the postgraduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His recent book Otakude onnanoko na kuni no monozukuri (Neon Genesis of Geeky-Girly Japanese Engineering) explores the cool and wild territory where subculture can teach technology how to create innovative products with a competitive edge.
Toiletdude7s Youtube-Channel
Toiletdude7s Youtube-Channel hat nicht weniger als 180 Videos die allesamt Toilettenspülungen zeigen, außerdem hat er 321 Favorites, allesamt – man ahnt es wohl – Toilettenspülungen. Massive Youtube-Toilet-Floosh-Fetish ahead! (via Reddit)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
Waschmaschinen-Fetisch-Videos auf Youtube
How to shit in Space
(Youtube Direktshit, via MeFi)
Astronaut Mike Massimino erklärt mit den NASA-Leuten Steve Bowen und Piers Sellers im Detail, wie man im Weltall kackt. Die Tatsache, dass die da eine beleuchtete Kamera mit Monitor für die Feinjustierung des Anus haben, macht den Beruf für mich tatsächlich ein kleines bisschen unattraktiver. Aber nur ein bisschen. (Und die Alpträume der Astronauten, wenn sie mal vergessen, die Kamera vor dem Ausscheidungsvorgang auszuschalten, möchte ich echt nicht haben.)
Mike Massimino helps answer the one question he and other astronauts get asked most often: “How do you ‘go’ in space?” Mike catches up with STS-132 Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers as they get some “refreshers” on the use of shuttle Atlantis’ “Space Potty.” (Training includes an “alignment camera.”) Bowen, Sellers and their four crewmates are scheduled to launch aboard Atlantis for the International Space Station on May 14. The workings of a space toilet, on “STS-132: Behind the Scenes, Vol. 1.”
Admiral Akbar Toilet: It’s a crap!
Wissenschaftler sollten mal die Auswirkungen des Internetz auf die Geschwindigkeit des Alterungsprozesses untersuchen. Ich bin jedenfalls grade 5 Jahre älter geworden.Admiral Ackbar toilet by bmansnuggles (via Buzzfeed)
Irgendwie related (weil’s mit Toiletten zu tun hat und man bei dem Unsinn auch ein paar Jahre älter wird): What does bathroom etiquette have to do with God? „Pastor Steven L Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church (and Teabagger) preaches that men must urinate while standing up.“
Toilet-themed Horror-Novel gedruckt auf Toilettenpapier
Koji Suzuki, Autor der Buchvorlage zu „The Ring“ lässt seinen neuen Horror-Roman, dessen Handlung dem Geschehen auf einer Toilette folgt, auf Toilettenpapier drucken. Ich glaube aber nicht wirklich, dass die Geschichte deshalb schon für’n Arsch ist. (<-- musste sein, konnte ich mir nicht verkneifen, war viel zu offensichtlich, aber der musste raus, ging nicht anders, tut mir leid.)
Suzuki’s no hack writer by the way – his previous credits include horror novels Ring and Spiral, both later made into popular Japanese horror films. His latest endeavor, Drop, is a nine-chapter horror story that happens to be set in a public bathroom.
According to Hayashi Paper, reading Suzuki’s novel in a similar setting will invest what should be a relaxing experience with “psychological fright”. Say Hayashi, isn’t that what laxatives are for?
The novel itself is printed in Japanese and interspersed with gory splatters meant to evoke blood, not exactly the thing we want to see on our toilet paper. At least they’re blue – which actually might be worse.
Horror-themed Toilet Paper from Japan Puts You on the Edge of Your Seat (via MonstersandRockets)
Space toilets
The only toilet on the International Space Station was having problems for a week, but fortunately it’s working once again. To celebrate, Scientific American’s JR Minkel takes a look back at NASA’s space toilets.
