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Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the off-with-their-members dept.

igrp writes "Ever get annoyed with the seemingly endless stream of AOL CDs that make their way to your mailbox? Instead of just tossing them, you could collect about four thousand of them and build yourself an illuminated throne."

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  1. Here's another one: by comwiz56 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Another website with creative AOL cd usage

  2. Coralized Link by La+Camiseta · · Score: 5, Informative

    This should work for the text at least...

    http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

  3. Recycled? by dead+sun · · Score: 4, Informative
    Isn't turning a slew of AOL CDs into a throne more in the category of reuse instead of recycling? Recycling implies that the plastic from the CDs is somehow melted down and used in a new product.

    There's a reason the slogan was Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They're listed in order of decreasing positve impact.

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    1. Re:Recycled? by gerardrj · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes. But the term "recycle" has been so misused by television hosts that the word is coming to mean "any use for an item other than originally intended." I want to scream when I hear a home improvement host say "and we recycled this old bookcase by painting it and putting doors on it to make an armoire". That is NOT recycling, it's re-using.

      Recycle does mean to send the item back to a plant where it is broken down to raw material again, then formed in to a new item.

      Re-use means simply finding a new use for an existing item.

      Recycling is for the most part a waste of resources and causes more pollution than simply creating an item from virgin raw materials (with the exception of metal recycling such as aluminum and steel).

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    2. Re:Recycled? by mzwaterski · · Score: 1, Informative

      Seems like we are both right according to Websters: 1 : to pass again through a series of changes or treatments in order to regain material for human use 2 : to adapt to a new use

  4. Other Uses by AgentAce · · Score: 2, Informative

    You could also use those CDs to create a neutron modulator...
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/1 8/1447258&tid=126&tid=14

  5. Mirror by nstrom · · Score: 5, Informative

    I threw up a quick mirror here: http://braincylinder.net.nyud.net:8090/stupidco/ao l_throne_intro.html

  6. Re:OR... by balster+neb · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can disable that (I just did).

    Go to URL about:config. Toggle browser.blink_allowed to false. Simple.

  7. Re:Mirror of the article: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Coral Cacheification.

  8. Coral mirror: by swiftstream · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

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  9. Little Targets by Gertlex · · Score: 2, Informative

    The best thing that I've found to do with them is to use them as targets for archery practice, (or i suppose, firearms practice). They break into so many shining pieces if you hit them just right.

  10. Yes, recycled. by mr.newt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Common sense might indicate to you that this was the case, and common sense would be completely wrong. While the connotations of the word recycle are generally what you suggest, the denotation may clearly be a synonym for reuse.

    consult:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycle
    http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary& va=recycle&x=0&y=0
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=recycle
    http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=recycle

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  11. You can get them to stop by Oloryn · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can actually get AOL to stop sending you CDs. When I was at Interop a few years ago. I stopped by the AOL booth, gave them my address, and asked that it be taken off of their mailing list. I haven't seen an AOL CD mailed to me since.

  12. Mirror by B747SP · · Score: 3, Informative

    In case of karma whoring, mirror the site here!

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  13. Re:OR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    In Europe all games come in a DVD case, although some with multiple CD's have the extras in paper sleeves. It's so 1990's to use them big huge waste-of-space boxes.

  14. Re:Truth be told by R_V_Winkle · · Score: 2, Informative

    The site is blocking the referrer, I have a plugin in firefox that masks the referrer is there a way to link to the page in html and force the referrer? I stumbled across their blocking tactic after coming back to slashdot from a failed failed google images search for this suprisingly majestic creation.