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Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper
0110011001110101 writes "A crazy new product out of Taiwan seems to be aimed at the feed dependent of us out there. The 'rsstroom reader' is a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that's right, your TOILET PAPER! The best part is the "biometrics" toilet seat that'll figure out who you are based on your weight and prints the news you want - not your roommates tabloid garbage. Going to the rsstroom will never be boring again! Heres a close-up image of this new gadget."
Well, the content of most rss feeds does befit the product.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
I have a better - and far more fitting - idea. Blogs on toilet paper.
Too much concern over viruses and back doors.
How apropos, given the state of most content on the Web.
Crap In, Crap Out.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
"No shit?"
John
I'm kind of afraid to click a "close-up" image of a device that's used on the toilet. It's not a picture of a live demo is it?
I used to have a terminal in my bathroom, so I understand the motivation to be close to information. However, I have to draw the line at buttometric technology, that's just wrong.
It would seem that feelings of guilt may spawn from wiping yourself with your favorite feed. Of course, if ever one became fed up with hearing the latest stupid news from one's roommate, a very powerful point could easily (and comfortably) be made.
Hack your neighbors wireless connection and feed false information to their RSS printed TP. Imagine the fun you could have. Program it to tell your neighbors wife she's fat and needs to lose weight. Program it to insult your neighbor's husband's manhood. There's so much potential here it is staggering...
Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
And to think that just today someone asked me why The GIMP has a toilet-paper template. Now I know why! For that printer!
Well, at long last I have a reason to subscribe to the White House RSS feed...
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
What means this word 'arsefeeds'?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
From TFA: [note: the rsstroom reader(TM) is a conceptual product by dj spyhunter]
Slashdot takes one step closer to becoming The Onion...
Finally, I can now read /. RSS headlines that are worth the paper they are printed on!
Remove dupes by tearing out a square (or more)!
Too bad. I was just getting a kick out of misreading the summary:
:-)
The best part is the "biometrics" toilet seat that'll figure out who you are based on your weight and prints
I wonder what prints they're talking about...
Commas (or unintentional lack thereof) are a wonderful thing.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
Real Simple Shitification.
I couldn't fail to disagree with you any less.
I have to chase the article down the toilet with the server, the printer, and the RSS feed!
Yuck!
Any mirrors?
Well, it means you've just slashdotted your toilet.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the solution would be to install an iris scanner which has been modded to do pattern matching on the user's "brown eye".
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
The only blog feed worth wiping with is Bill O'Idiot's from Fox News.
It has the bonus effect of being a puff of hot air to dry your bottom.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I need TP.
For my bunghole.
Who reads this shit?
Woo-hoo ... oh, you meant that as a bad thing. Sorry.
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
I can see it now:
*In a bar, about to leave*
"Hey lady, could I get a quick blow in my car?"
Am I open minded towards open source, or closed minded towards closed source?
You mean splashdotted.
Take life easy: one bit at a time.
My mother has a big sign in her washroom that says "This is a bathroom, not a library".
:-P
Printing out custom-made TP while I'm in the head seems to be well and firmly entrenched into the "why ever for?" categry for me.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
That's why you should always bring your kid with you to the bar. So they can blow in the breathalyser to start your car for you.
Actually I heard these type of devices require you blow in them at intervals not just to start the car.
TODO create witty sig.
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The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I'm trying to get crap out of my ass, not into it!
Thou shalt not begin a subject line or post with the word "Umm".
A friend of mine's....
Riiiight....a "friend", nudge-nudge, wink-wink,saynomore-saynomore
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
You're
Fired
Now I can finally wipe my ass with the Washington Times, The National Standard, and White House press releases!
Scott McClellan, get ready to kiss this ass!
News for turds. Stuff that splatters?
"Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article"
Brings a whole new meaning to "yellow journalism".
Am I a hipster-doofus?
Where the news really stinks.
Where the 'bloid meets the 'roid
My sincere apologies, I cannot help myself.