How To…? 6 Nifty Rube Goldberg Machines

A Rube Goldberg machine is, of course, a machine engineered to perform a simple task in a very (or very, very, very) complicated way. I’m not sure I would recommend any of these “how to” videos for efficiency’s sake, but they sure are fun to watch.

How to Unroll Toilet Paper:

How to Creme an Egg:

How to Cook Ramen:

How to (Not) Bust a Myth on Christmas:

How to Open Curtains:

And of course, no list like this would be complete without…

How to Make the Most Awesome Music Video Ever:

And if you’re dying for even more Rube Goldberg awesomeness, here are some videos featured on [GAS] in days gone by:

So a geek walks into a bar… Science Jokes! [Picture]

Though not a science joke, my favorite bar humor is this bit of music geekery:

Three notes walk into a bar – a G, an E flat, and a C. The bartender looks up and says “We don’t serve minors.” So the E flat leaves and the other two have a fifth between them.

What’s your favorite geeky joke?

[via Failbook]

Twitter’s Twaggies Web Comic

Have you guys discovered Twaggies yet? They take tweets and illustrate them into funny Web comics. Tweets that would normally disappear into the ether are persevered for posterity in a sort of Twitter Hall of Fame. Here’s some of our recent favorites: