Breakfast Links: Piss-screen, suing the Red Cross & Weird Fish
Those crazy Germans have come up with an idea to discourage drunk driving - putting a racing video game in front of urinals. The controller? Your urine stream. You love it! When you crash and burn horrifically it puts up the quote “Too pissed to drive? Take a Taxi instead. Call: #######” (via gizmodo). How can you not dig it? They even have a blog about it where you can see some strange exhibit where they show people controlling the game using their hands or bottles of water into urinals. Remember that thing about people not wanting to touch gross things? Yeah, that wouldn’t be me with my hands in no urinal. Here’s what I don’t like about it - piss-screen? Sounds like something to stop splashback. They missed an obvious name… the Pii! Don’t deny it, you just wet yourself a little with that brilliance.
Check this out - Johnson & Johnson are suing the Red Cross over the, umm, red cross. That’s right, the red cross you see on first aid kits and stuff that the Red Cross use I guess to raise money for them? Apparently, and this is crazy, Clara Barton (founder of the Red Cross) signed a deal with J&J in 1895 agreeing with the company’s exclusive use of the cross. No matter J&J’s belief in their firm legal footing, this will be a tough PR problem, I imagine!
You ought to check out this page of 27 wierd fish (ok not just fish, but you know…). Really it’s only 26 because they start with some robot fish which is pretty lame. But then they go in with all the crazy stuff you find in the ocean. Don’t deny that you love that little guy I posted the picture of. You gotta check out the other stuff too like the Dumbo Octopus, Lumpfish and the dude who’s teeth are so big he can’t close his mouth. That lumpfish looks a heck of a lot like the thing that Bill Paxton gets turned into at the end of Weird Science.
