McDonald’s restaurants (if you can even call them that) in Australia, having suffered from a recent spat of robberies (who the f*** robs a McDonald’s ? Taco Bell or GTFO), have teamed up with security firm SelectaDNA to install sprayers above its doors that will douse robbers with an invisible mist of DNA . Why? To make them glow under blacklight for police identification. Wait, WHAT? The newly introduced DNA will then seep harmlessly into his or her skin for two weeks (and clothes for six months) allowing the police to reveal the culprit using UV light. The spray is both invisible and odorless, but even if the hapless highwayman notices the deoxyribonucleic acid rain cloud, SelectaDNA assures that its chemical concoction is “virtually impossible to remove.” Making matters worse for the offender is that each DNA sequence is unique to the location to which it was installed, meaning a successful forensic identification is 100% admissible in court. Basically, if you get caught in this stuff, you’re screwed. No word if the DNA will cause you to mutate into a supervillain, but brobro in the picture there does look kinda like a Star Wars character, so that’s something. Not something I’d be willing to rob a McDonald’s to achieve, but I’m also smart enough to only rob Burger Kings. *putting on cardboard crown* NOW LEAD ME TO THE ROYAL TREASURE ROOM. Australian McDonald’s Now Spraying Thieves With DNA [escapistmagazine] Thanks to Sore_Dong, who may or may yes have permanently injured his unit. Smooth move buddy — your DNA spraying days are OVER.

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Rob An Australian McDonald’s, Get Hosed With DNA

Oracle ColorSHIFTs are LED headlights that can change any color . PLUS STROBE. Want to give the driver in front of you a seizure? NO PROBLEMO. They’re only made for select car types and cost over $400, but who cares, your headlights are shooting rainbows . Mine? Mine are shooting f***ing laser beams. No, no they’re not. I’m not even sure if the bulbs still work. *turning key* “Well one does.” PADIDDLE! Now you have to kiss me. Hit the jump for a video of the lights in action and a link to the product site.

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Rainbow Brites: Color Changing Headlights

OMG, somebody shat bricks for real — AND MISSED! This is a Spider-Man themed bathroom (more pictures after the jump) constructed by Riley Replicas for a friend. Because that’s what friends are for: making superhero themed bathrooms . Plus putting down to make you feel better about yourself! I had a friend who wanted to decorate a room in her house for her husband who is a HUGE Spider-man fan so I made this wall panel for the room. I went with a faux brick wall theme with Spideys villains bursting through the wall! I have The Sandman, The Lizard, Doc Ock and The Green Goblin represented. Just wanted to add pics of the wall installed in the customers….bathroom! Pretty unusual place but I think it turned out OK First of all, my cat pointed out that the mess from Sandman punching through the wall kinda looks somebody blasted the wall with diarrhea. Hey — his meows not mine. Secondly, don’t ever use a restroom after Spider-Man. He shoots webs out of his you-know-what. Don’t ask me how I know but it’s because I followed him into the bathroom once and peeked over the urinal divider. Next thing you know, FSSSSSHH! — I’m web-cuffed to a hand dryer. Dammit Spidey, curiosity ain’t a crime! Hit the jump for a bunch more shots (some prior to installation) including some Doctor Octopus pincers flying out the wall that would make it all but impossible to pee.

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Way Too Sticky: A Spider-Man Themed Bathroom

This a shot of an actual Christmas tree taken by x-ray photographer Nick Veasey. Let’s see here…a pair of shoes, a watch, booze, a wrench set, a camera, perfume and a smartphone. Not a bad haul! Me? I’m hoping for a bunch of airplane bottles and lotto scratchers. You know, that classy shit. Let me down and die, fat man! Hi the jump in case you ever wondered what an x-ray of a present containing high heels looks like. I know I was curious.

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See-Thru Santa: X-Rayed Christmas Tree And Gifts

Note: This only shows Star Wars and Harry Potter. But you wanna know how Pokemon, Twilight, Dr. Who and Star Trek stack up, right? Click HERE, RIGHT HERE DAMMIT for the whole thing. This is an infographic comparing various sci-fi /fantasy franchises based on their internet presence. Things like number of Facebook likes, fan-fiction submissions and Wiki entries. Apparently Harry Potter is the big winner though, which I’m okay with since it wasn’t Twilight . Although I was a little disappointed Jurassic Park didn’t even make the cut. Come on, I’ve written over 20,000 pieces of fan-fiction myself. I met a t-rex at a bar, we boned. I wrote about it in my diary. Haha, there’s 19,999 more where that came from! (It came straight from my heart is the thing) Internet Fandom Infographic of the Day [geeks.thedailywh.at] Thanks to Mark and carlo, who were both pissed Lord of the Rings didn’t make the list and may or may yes be into hobbit fantasies.

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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Franchise Internet Fandom Infographic

Seen here giving the camera their best serious but cool, MIT researchers Andreas Velten and Ramesh Raskar pose in front of a Coke bottle filled with highlighter fluid or something. I don’t know, physics and I don’t always get along. That’s how I’m able to levitate . Just kidding, it’s magnets and wires. Anyway, these two studs have developed a means of capturing shots at 1/1,000,000,000,000th of a second, enabling photography of the movement of light itself. SU-SU-SU-SCIENCE!: Basically, nanosecond laser pulses are shone on an object. In front of the camera is a narrow slit, so that only a thin slice of the laser light can be seen at one time — the technical name for this device is a “streak camera.” The laser pulses, with very complex timing circuitry, are then picked up by an array of 500 sensors in the camera — but only one “scan line” at a time (thanks to the narrow slit). Using mirrors, the camera’s angle of view is changed over time until each of these one-dimensional slices can be built up into a complete 2D image. This process, which takes about an hour, has led to one of its creators — Ramesh Raskar — to dub this trillion-FPS wonder “the world’s slowest fastest camera.” There’s a video of the two creators explaining the technology after the jump that I was *this close* to being able to wrap my head around. Get it? Because my head is long like a jump rope. One time I even tripped a purse-snatcher, then used my head to tie him to a light pole until the cops arrived. True story 100% lies. Hit the jump and get your laser light photography show on.

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MIT Develops A ‘Trillion Frames Per Second’ Camera

Did you know blowing out a candle makes ‘lil rainbows in the smoke? Of course you did, they probably teach this shit in schools now. When I was in school we didn’t learn anything about rainbows except RON J BIZ or whatever. Sea Moon’s (Grover Schrayer’s) Flickr (with a ton more crazy macro shots) via The Rainbow Fringe Of An Extinguished Flame [buzzfeed] Thanks to Erik, who once put a candle out by clogging one nostril and sucking really hard with the other one. You’re sick.

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Blowing Out A Candle Makes Rainbows Appears

This is a newly discovered species of Yeti (NOT Batman ) crab. It’s similar to the other hairy-armed Yeti crabs except this one grows edible bacteria on its arms by methodically waving them around in front of deep sea methane vents. And speaking of deep sea methane vents: blue whales . You don’t want to be sitting in a dinghy when one of those fart bubbles surfaces! Hit the jump for two short videos, one of the hairy arm waving, one of chow-time.

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New Yeti Crab Farms Bacteria On Its Arms To Eat

Worst sex explanation ever. This is an hour-and-a-half interview between Stephen Colbert and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson . There’s a lot of knowledge to be gained from watching it, so I suggest you make a pair of secret computer-viewing glasses tonight and come back to watch it at work tomorrow. Alternatively, just listen to it while you read blogs all day. But whatever you do, DON’T listen to it when you get home from work and start masturbating, or you’re gonna have a whole lot of explaining to do when your girlfriend walks in. Oh come on baby, it’s science . Like you’ve never diddled yourself watching PBS before! Hit the jump for the video, actual interview starts around 6:30.

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Stephen Colbert Interviewing Neil deGrasse Tyson

According to Facebook , there are only 4.74-degrees of separation between you and any other user on the planet, making our world that much smaller and natural resources that much scarcer. “That’s not how that works.” You shut up! “When considering even the most distant Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian rainforest, a friend of your friend probably knows a friend of their friend,” wrote the Facebook data team in a blog post explaining its research. [The average degrees of separation] used to be six. But thanks to the increasing popularity of social networking, humanity has become more connected over time. Where in 2008 the distance from any one Facebook user was, on average, 5.28 hops, it’s now 4.74, the company’s researchers said. First of all, there’s no such thing as a 0.74 degree of separation. You have to round that up to the next number unless Facebook is counting amputees in which they’re the most insensitive social network in the world. Not that we didn’t already know that . So yeah, there are only FIVE (5!) people separating you and I on Facebook. You know what that means? There are only five people we have to kill before we can be together . I’m gonna wear your skin like a windbreaker! Facebook Claims 4.74 Degrees of Kevin Bacon [foxnews] Thanks to LeftRightLeft, who, despite the name, is actually a terrible marcher. Can skip like nobody’s business though.

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We’re Practically Friends!: Only 4.74 Degrees Of Separation Between You And Any Other Facebooker