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Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne
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."
And I've been trying to figure out for years what they are for...
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Pointless, but cool! http://www.aolcdroms.com/
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you can so kindly donate those unwanted AOL cd's to this cause...No More AOL CD's
Apparently the web server is made from recycled AOL discs as well....
I used to go to Circuit city and raid the AOL CD stand because back then (~2 years ago) the CDs came in standard DVD style cases. Now whenever I need to give someone a CD, I just toss it in one of the DVD cases...
he should of built a better web server out of them
love is just extroverted narcissism
The AOL CD throne is shaped just like an http 503 error. Such skill. Such craftsmanship.
Another website with creative AOL cd usage
These kinds of things are posted on Collegehumor.com all the time. As a recent college graduate myself, I have seen a good number of AOL CD sculptures.
Since we're so interested in slow news, it started snowing today. And I went to the dentist for the first time in four years.
Have CmdrTaco and the other Slashdot admins considered selling gratuitous story links to companies wanting to stress-test their servers?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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Wait, you still want me to reply to "How Much Harm Can One Website Do"?
This should work for the text at least...
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http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intr
There's a reason the slogan was Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They're listed in order of decreasing positve impact.
If not now, when?
I think Slashdot should get a mention in the Guinness book of world records. I'm just not entirely sure what for (most web admins narked, most web servers burned to the ground, news service most likely to cause sites to collapse, ...)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Everyone has AOL cds, but i have an AOL version 2.0 Floppy
It would be great for AOL to continue the tradition and mail out their installations on CD-RWs or open session CD-R's. It would certainly cut down on the waste as we'd be able to do something useful with the cd's when they arrived.
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I'd like to shoot the twit who thought of sending those damn things through.
Mebbe a bit off-topic, but I found a great use for an AOL cd the other day. Throw the CD away, and use the DVD case for my caseless discs.
I guess the guy was running the web server off an AOL CD! :p
My other dog is a Wienerschnitzel.
You don't need foam cushions to enjoy a little cousin action..
You could also use those CDs to create a neutron modulator...1 8/1447258&tid=126&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/
Sure lot's of people read the articles. Just not the ones who post ;-)
-chris
San Francisco values: compassion, tolerance, respect, intelligence
"Just like sandblasting a soup cracker."
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
I threw up a quick mirror here: http://braincylinder.net.nyud.net:8090/stupidco/ao l_throne_intro.html
I've got a printout of the Internet here I ran off last month in case of just this kind of emergency. If anyone wants to see this page, just send me a SASE and I'll enclose a photocopy from my "Internet Master Copy."
Might take me a little while to leaf through it all and find the right page, of course.
http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html
Be a PATRIOT--because the only thing we have to fear is the lack thereof.
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.
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.
& va=recycle&x=0&y=0 * &Query=recycle
consult:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycle
http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=recycle
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=
-michael
As King George II, I, too, am looking for an elegant throne.
Very presidentially yours,
"President" George W. Bush
Like most other geeks here, I only read Slashdot for the pictures.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
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.
My grandmother used to hang aluminum pie pans on string over her vegetable garden to scare the birds. Now we use AOL CDs for the same thing. They're not as big, but a lot shinier.
I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
In case of karma whoring, mirror the site here!
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
One year I used up nearly my entire inventory of AOL floppies (yes, it was that long ago) and CDs in making a halloween costume. I simply taped them all to a normal set of clothes, used a floppy disk as an eyepatch, and presto --- I was a software pirate.
No. It doesn't.
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Ah don't worry ... if you send me a stamped and self-addressed envelope I'll send you a Xerox of my Google master copy to help you find the right page!
Or you can harness the power of the Sun for a nice prism effect...
..note that the pattern should look something like this.
The parent to this post WAS NOT submitted by King George II. It had no spelling or grammar errors.
Infuriate left and right