Things You Can Do With A Giant Fresnel Lens
Ant writes "Here is a link where this guy always wanted Edmund Scientific's Giant Fresnel Lens. 'Melts asphalt in seconds!' the ad said. When he went to graduate school he met several other people with the same enthusiasm for aimless destruction through bizarre means, and just enough combined cash to make it happen. Thus the reign of terror began."
Damn the french and their shroom-inspired spelling. Silent X's and S's and God knows what else.