Credits: dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu
1) Buy clock guts from a craft shop and make CD-clocks.
2) <shuk shuk> PULL!!! BOOM! (plastic pigeons)
3) Deadly missiles, especially when sharpened first with a knife blade
and honed with the diamond-file thingy from your Leatherman.
4) Put fake new labels on them and give them away as "cool games" to
make the lusers leave you alone.
5) Put fake new labels on them to make them seem really important.
Leave them around as decoys to prevent damage to your REALLY important
CDs.
6) Cut in half and sharpened as in item #3, they make curiously-shaped
knives.
7) Enlarge the holes and mount them on your glasses. Use as confusion
devices or as prizes to bribe people to leave you alone.
8) Using scotch tape, you can make a Jacobson's Ladder thingy that flips
and flops all the way down.
9) Cut in half and connect to a neon-sign transformer to make a Jacob's
Ladder.
10) Place them in strategic locations to bounce a laser beam from your
desk to desks of various people who need to be tortured with lasers
being played all over them.
11) Use one or several to wedge a door shut.
12) When nobody's looking, thread them on various cables and replace the
cables.
13) Cut into bow-ties. Then with your pocket blowtorch, soften them and
twist. Caltrops!
14) Place them in light fixtures to cause irritating glares in strategic
locations.
15) Photocopy them.
16) Sharpen as in item #3 (serrate if desired) and mount on a Dremel for
use as a saw.
17) Cut four notches from outer edge to almost the inner circle. Heat
with pocket blowtorch until soft and mold into a rough cone of about
30 degrees. Keep the notches clear and hole intact. Stick this
gadget into something where a lot of air comes out really fast (like
a car exhause). Listen to the whistling noise.
18) There is no use #18.
19) Use your pocket blowtorch again to soften a CD and wrap it around a
20) Use your pocket blowtorche yet again to form one into a saddle or
taco shape. Fasten to ceiling and pretend it's a spy camera.
101 Uses for AOL Disks
1. Mini cutting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door
for knife).
2. Attach it to a ruler and presto! - you've got a fly swatter.
3. Construct a life size replica of Stonehenge.
4. At a restaurant, shove one under a wobbling table leg.
5. Money clip (use metal door and discard the plastic case...the
"rich nerd" look is IN this year).
6. Eye patch (for one-eyed software pirates).
7. Christmas ornaments (the more the merrier).
8. Give them to young children to use as building blocks.
9. Glue them to the bottom of the space shuttle and use them as re-entry
burn tiles.
10. Dentures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).
11. Room dividers for hamsters.
12. Drink coasters.
13. Use multiple disks to create an ideal door stopper.
14. Ice scraper.
15. Bathroom tile.
16. Bookmark.
17. Mini frisbee.
18. Air hockey puck.
19. Dog chew toy.
20. Dart board.
21. Pooper scooper.
22. Grill scraper.
23. Use them for karate board-breaking demonstrations (save a tree).
24. Wrist slicer - after receiving first AOL bill (use metal door).
25. Conversation piece for coffee table.
26. Destroy them - smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.
27. Light switch cover.
28. Chinese throwing stars (tape 2 together).
29. Clay pigeons for target practice.
30. Greeting card (bind two together at one end).
31. Halloween treat (give them away all night long).
32. Bullet proof vest (arrange together in triple thickness).
33. Firewood.
34. Bird house.
35. Paper weights.
36. Pen holders (make a box without a top).
37. Post it-notes holder.
38. Refrigerator magnet (glue a magnet to the back).
39. A very sturdy base for putting the motorcycle sidestand on when
parking on soft surfaces.
40. Keep 'em in the trunk for extra traction in the snow.
41. Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the
sun/moon - actually works).
42. Placing one in each back pocket helps children who get paddled by
the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.
43. Make an AOL disk & pasta casserole.
44. Incense burners (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.
45. Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood).
46. Put them on car windshields at the mall (along with this list).
47. Melt the plastic of the disks into a giant sculpture.
48. Hand them out as party favors.
49. Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place
near door. Completely safe...who would want an AOL disk?)
50. Vertical blinds.
51. Be an AOL diskette surgeon and dissect a diskette.
52. Bench press weights (I can press 120).
53. Grind 'em up and refertilize the front lawn.
54. The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" filling.
55. Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.
56. Brake shoes.
57. House insulation.
58. Recycle them for the scrap metal.
59. Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new mansion in Seatle (walk all over the
competition)
60. Hockey Puck.
61. Add water and special plant life to make a Chia-Disk.
62. Noise maker for your bike spokes (why damage your valuable baseball
cards).
63. Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk...makes the perfect
pet.
64. Poker chips.
65. Baseball practice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).
66. Keychain (Put a key ring through one of the writeprotect holes and
you've got a snappy executive bathroom keychain for the office).
67. Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).
68. Earmuffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of
bent coathanger to both disks).
69. Grind them up to make fake snow.
70. Earrings (put loop into write-protect hole).
71. Dental floss (use actual disk).
72. Use them for zipper pulls (instead of ski lift tickets).
73. When your collection of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.
74. Use them to fill potholes.
75. Hood ornament.
76. Snow blower replacement blades.
77. Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.
78. Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for platform shoes.
79. Rubic's cube case (make into box).
80. Shipping material (keeps your photos from being bent in the mail).
81. Protect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.
82. Snack trays (great for holding hors d'oeuvres at parties).
83. Give them as stocking stuffers to all those people who piss you off.
84. Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through middle, hang 2" apart
and apply honey to disks).
85. Pocket protect or (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket protector
-thanks Lewis) .
86. They make a *dandy* additi on to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Better
yet, get them to actually i nstall it on their computer.
87. Use them as elbow and knee pads.
88. Wax scraper for snowboards.
89. Use them to decorate your aquarium and create Co mputer City under water.
90. Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.
91. Collect a large mass and detonate a supernova.
92. A wind clacker (similar to a wind chime).
93. Soap dish (remove metal to prevent rusting).
94. Row markers for your vegetable garden. (carrots, beans, peas....)
95. Makes the perfect dance floor for your ant colony.
96. Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).
97. Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.
98. Baby mobile.
99. Fence (may need a few thousand).
100. Toe tags for mortuaries. Great for identifying dead computer nerds.
101. Wonderbra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.
Credits: talon@hancock.nospam.k12.mo.us
> file cabinet full of them for scratch floppys atleast 200 of them. But i
> have no fucking idea what to do with the cd's besides stick them in the
> microwave or force feed to lusers any ideas :)
Well, the last time this was discussed in the monastery we came up with:
1. Use it as a drinks mat
2. A reasonable mirror
3. Frisbee (excellent networking device... transfer 650Mb of data in a single
packet via frisbee net :)
4. Listen to them in an audio-CD player to wake upto in the morning
5. Turn it into a clock... its better with a Laser disks tho
6. Put it in a microwave for 5 seconds, turn out the lights and watch
7. Take two of the CDs and turn them into ear rings
8. Make a CD-and-cabling mobile
9. Christmas Tree ornaments
10. Break one in half and use it for self defense
11. Tack several to a wall to spell out words
12. Make CD soup - just make sure you use an old sauce pan!
13. CD wall murals, especially nice when lights are shone at them
14. Replacements for clay pigeons
15. Yo-Yo (use two and a roll of tape)
16. Mini-LART
17. Bathroom tiles. Imagine 'accidentally' pissing on a Win95 CD. Whoops.
A comment about this entry from Aaron Sommer:
"Too much temptation to piss on the floor, IMO, and they don't look
comfy enough to sit on. Using them for shower tiles might be
interesting, tho..."
18. Use as high-school physics diffraction grating when they are scratched
19. Tie them to a piece of string and use them to scare birds