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101 Uses for an AOL CD?
Richard C asks: "I've just seen, for the first time, the newest AOL advert on UK television. One section depicts a man phoning AOL to ask for a free CD. As he speaks, he picks up his coffee mug, to which an AOL CD is stuck - he's been using it as a coaster. "Oh, don't worry - I've already got one" he adds. The irony of this amused me, to say the least, thought probably not in the way AOL intended. In any case, and in the true '101 uses for a dead cat' style, I thought it would be amusing (if not productive) to ask the Slashdot readership for their '101 uses for an AOL CD'. Be imaginative!"
See also, how to beat a dead horse
1. Coasters ...Or make a really strange hat.
2. Microwave for a few seconds to create new and interesting abstract art pieces.
3. Eclipse viewer
4. Signal mirror when you are lost in the woods
5. Y'know when you're driving and some creep right behind you has their brights on? Use the shiny side to send their light right back at them
6. Take some string, some cork, some glue, and an even number of CDs : Yo-Yo
7. String up a bunch of them together and give them to a small child to keep them entertained.
8. Glue as many as you can to a black body suit and go to the next holloween party as a disco ball.
9. Bookmark for any hardbound book.
10. Frisbees for children or expert frisbee throwers.
11. With two of them you can make Elton John sized mirror shades.
12. Balance a table with uneven legs
13. Give your parakeet a friend
14. Practice throwing stars for young ninjas.
15. Throwing small pieces of pottery
16. At work, keep the bathroom key in an easy to find location by attaching it to a CD.
17. Astonomy: Glue two halves of a sphere to both sides of a tennis ball and model Saturn.
18. Practice skipping stones indoors.
19. Glue it to your pet mouse so it doesn't chew on an injured leg
20. Wind chimes
21. Christmas tree ornaments.
22. Make your own platinum album
23. Shields for your GI Joes
24. The AOL Mini-CD would also work as part of a lance for him
25.
26. Vanity mirror for Barbie
27. Make your Gi Joe's stand up properly
28. Glue them to the outside of your house and bounce all of the sunlight off. Cut your cooling costs
29. They say that there is no intelligent life out there. Glue them to a 4x8 board, grab a xylophone, and start signaling.
30. Tape a few strategically to the walls of your house so that no matter where you are you can us the remote control.
31. Glue one to your computer monitor so you can see whose behind you.
32. Give them to your kid when they have to make a diarama of the final scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Think of the rotating knives)
33. At your next party, give every guest their own personal tray of oe'deuvres.
34. Get four of them and jack up your hot wheels.
35. Diarama idea #2 : The Pit and the Pendulum
36. Kill time by working out the Towers of Hanoi problem
37. Nueveau wall paper.
38. Snow shoes for dogs.
39. Bicycle reflectors.
40. Roadside and driveway reflectors.
41. Laser defraction grating material for experiments.
42. Toaster demonstrations.
43. Put one behind each christmas light on your outdoors string of lights.
44. Large fender washers
45. Edward CD hands
46. Replace those old playing cards on the bike as noise makers against the spokes.
47. Furniture coasters
48. Solar mirror for concentrating heat into a fresnel lens solar oven
49. Glue several together into a parabolic shape for spy listening device
50. Same as above for satellite dishes
51. Make a house for the fish in your aquarium.
52. Collect thousands and make an artifical reef.
53. Use two for your snow boarding chicken
54. Fishing lures for marlin
55. Jack up your roller skates
56. Tie some to strings and attach them in front ot the air conditioner vent. Watch them dance.
57. Experts estimate that it would take about 10 to 12 of them to make a skeet pidgeon.
58. Make a grinding wheel for your pocket knife.
59. Add some straw between two of them and your pets can work out with you.
60. New For Christmas:The CD ROM Christmas Tree
61. This is for Windows 98 CD's, but we can do the same with AOL CDs: Launch Win98
62. Use a hot knife to carefully fold them into various shapes. I'd like to see the platonic solids, myself.
63. A reader named Kevin pointed out that they make great candle holders. Why didn't I think of that? (6-10-02)
64. Another reader suggests taking six of them and glueing them together to form a box. Might be tricky, this one.
65. They also suggest cutting them in half to form the legs of a rocking chair for dolls or stuffed animals.
66. And the very obvious Disco Ball, which I only have alluded to as a halloween costume.
67. New on 10-12-02: Get an old satellite dish (big one) line the dish with them point it at the sun and you have one hell of a cigarette lighter. This would probably do a lot of damage to my pipe.
68. Or have the focused energy hit a metal tube to heat water. Boy, that would save on the electric bill, wouldn't it? Great ideas.
69. Another suggestion for the upcomming holiday parties. Dan wrote in:"If you have helium balloons but you don't want them to be sideways on your ceiling during aparty, simply attach a CD to the end of them. Take some rope and tie it around the end of the balloon. Then attach the other end of the rope to the CD. Make sure the rope is long enough to go all the way down to the ground. Not only will the CD's act as weights but will create a nicerainbow effect on your ceiling to make the party even more spectacular."
70. New on 12-2-02: Replacement "patty stacker" dividers!
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
(you need to be mr aol to do this one)
1/ dont have the next millions of cds made.
2/ dont send them to anyone.
3/ give the saved money to a charity
4/ make some kind of announcement where you say that in one shot you (1)reduced pollution, (2)realized you were bothering people with useless marketing, (3)did something usefull with that otherwise wasted money.
5/ have a merry christmas once in your lifetime.