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aol cd's

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, February 21 2003 @ 07:33 am EST

the best use is to hang them on christmas trees; they reflect the christmas lights.

aol cd's

Authored by: doopisdotnet on Friday, February 21 2003 @ 10:44 pm EST

the dvd cases that get mailed out with the AOL cd's were a nice gift... for my extra ps2 games :)

aol cd's

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, March 29 2003 @ 09:44 am EST

Until recently I would have responded 'none'. But recently I saw clocks for sale, where the face was the shiney side of a CD painted with a picture or design. I thought that to be an innovative use of CD's. Since the other side was obscrured I could not tell if the CD's were from AOL. They could have been defective CD's purchased by the seller for some trivial price.

Signal Mirror

Authored by: Ruatha on Saturday, February 22 2003 @ 12:18 am EST

They work great to signal rescuers/aircraft in a survival situation. The center hole can be used to 'aim' the reflection just like signal mirrors that are designed for this purpose. Not that anyone would be ever lost in the wilderness with an AOL disk on hand. :)

Signal Mirror

Authored by: isol8 on Sunday, February 23 2003 @ 01:15 pm EST

i'm pretty confident the at least 6 AOL disks will find you way quicker than any rescue planes

hehe

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, March 29 2003 @ 07:33 am EST

Mod parent up

:-)

As a Makeshift Trowel

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, February 22 2003 @ 06:13 am EST

I used one of the teeny AOL CDs that came through my door to apply fresh filler into the cracks in the bathroom ceiling when I couldn't find my trowel. The added bonus was that after applying a little too much pressure, the CD snapped in half, leaving me with TWO little Trow-O-L® tools, plus better control over the application of plaster into all those difficult to reach places! What a result! :-)

As a Makeshift Trowel

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, March 15 2003 @ 01:15 pm EST

That is hilarious

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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, February 22 2003 @ 03:37 pm EST

A fun game for the kids is to throw them into your pool...wait till the sink(oh and they sink fast :) ) and try to get as many as possible without going up for air!

Or you can have them recycled and turned into something usefull!!!

:)

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1234 EAT THE RICH AND FEED THE POOR 5678 ORGINISE AND SMASH THIS STATE - suck la marde

Demons?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, February 24 2003 @ 09:54 pm EST

Seriously.. so my "UBER"net frienldy AOL user calls and mentions that he read ::: ya - ha can read ::: that if you play the AOL CD backwards you heard demonic chants.. So I tell him to hold onto his seat, it gets Worse !!! If you play it forwards, it actually installs that Piece of Shit App !

Hoser
http://cbgbforum.com
Soon to integrate this wonderful Geeklog I'm seeing :)

Demons?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, February 27 2003 @ 04:37 pm EST

hahaha

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1234 EAT THE RICH AND FEED THE POOR 5678 ORGINISE AND SMASH THIS STATE - suck la marde

Demons?

Authored by: Anthron on Thursday, March 13 2003 @ 12:50 pm EST

Perhaps you're referring to the piece of shit app made BY the demons?

To make your car amphibious

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, February 26 2003 @ 04:34 am EST

Cut each disk into quarters and carefully glue them all over your car's body, giving it instant fish scales which groovily refract light from all around into all the beautiful shades of the rainbow! Moreover, the scales will make the vehicle waterproof and provide added protection against the huge pressures encountered down in the depths of the ocean.

Having done that, drive off the end of a long pier into a large body of water and marvel at all the new underwater friends you'll be making.
God bless you, AOL!

Here's a prototype model:
http://www.ultimatechaos.com/contest/aolcd/index3.html

sculptures

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, March 02 2003 @ 03:37 pm EST

I prefer to take the AOL CDs, place them in the microwave for about 10 seconds (it makes them spark a bunch, but it could be dangerous, so be careful, don't do anything stupid), then break it apart (again, not necessarily the best thing to do - those plastic splinters hurt, so use pliers or something), and take one of those lighter things for the grill and melt parts of the old CD together... it looks cool, and it's fun to do, but then again, I'm a pyro. :)

Microwave

Authored by: BigDave on Friday, March 07 2003 @ 12:35 am EST

hehe, they make a pretty impressive display if you throw them in the microwave and nuke them for 10s

frigthen away birds

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, March 09 2003 @ 10:27 am EST

I have a neighbor who has hung a whole bunch of AOL, Compuserve,
etc. CDs from limbs on the trees in his front yard. I asked him about it,
and apparently the colors and reflections and constant motion (when it is
windy) keeps the birds away from his garden.

Boil water?

Authored by: FlightSimGuy on Sunday, March 16 2003 @ 01:38 pm EST

They reflect light, don't they? I wonder if I could set up arrays of them to all reflect light at a common point to boil water, for example. :)

Boil water?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, March 17 2003 @ 04:20 am EST

Excellent idea!

What about taking the idea one step further and creating a massive, highly mobile, Earth-orbiting, precisely aligned super-array of the aforementioned LOL CDs to gather and concentrate the rays of the Sun and focus them onto a target of your choice on the Earth below. This super weapon can be used to destroy radar installations and fry infrastructure in enemy command centres. It will bring about the age of truly pinpoint accurate attacks and do away with the need for bunker-busting nuclear warheads.

The high energy beam would be able to penetrate the steel hull of tanks and armored vehicles. It would easily reach underground shelters and bunkers. Foxholes would be no protection either: just aim and shoot through the earth into your target. Anyone or anything in the path of a one-megawatt pulse would instantly become a molecular cloud. It truly would be an ultimate weapon. There will no longer be any place to hide, nor to run.

It could come with the following extra features:

Easy to Use;
Online Help;
Integrated Email and Chat;
Use the Army/Navy/Air Force at the same time;
Parental State controls;
Comes with a free trial version of Instant Death Messenger.

On the down side, it would automatically filter out all the harmful rays, defeating the object of the exercise, and thereby rendering the entire thing a big heap of shiny beer mats full of "Piece of Shit Apps". Oh well, back to the drawing board...

Boil water?

Authored by: dougm on Monday, March 17 2003 @ 06:30 pm EST

CD-Based Space weapons aren't banned by any treaties are they?

BREAK

Authored by: jhary on Sunday, March 30 2003 @ 05:29 pm EST

I like to keep 'em around for when I need to break something. I call them "ulcer medication."

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jhary
http://www.earthshine.org/

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Jhary

What's AOL?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Sunday, March 30 2003 @ 09:27 pm EST

What's AOL?

P.S. Sarcasm just in case you might be hovering over the reply to this link.

Lamps

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, March 31 2003 @ 12:29 pm EST

With enough of them and a low power (like flourescent) light source, you can make some nifty artdeco lamps. Just stack em up and put your small blacklight tube down the center.... Or apply superglue, and make some cool reflective lampshades. With proper application of black spraypaint (say, to obscure the aol logo side) or any other color for that matter, you can create some interesting effects. Just prime them the same way you prime plastic models for painting. Hmmm using a wannabe illumanati's propaganda to illuminate your life?

Lamps

Authored by: wildhaggis on Monday, March 31 2003 @ 03:19 pm EST

They also make a great cat toy. Just roll your free AOL cd across the floor, or throw it across a room, then shine a light on it and watch you cat attack! Good for burning off some energy. My cat's faster than AOL broadband!!

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Signature? No way! Last time I signed something I ended up married!

aol cd

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Tuesday, April 01 2003 @ 12:46 pm EST

I used aol cds as stablizing fins for a water rocket i had to make for an engineering class.

AOHell CDs

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, April 02 2003 @ 01:18 am EST

I've found that AOL CDs can be quite usefull when mounted to a ply-wood board, using them as a reflective sheild during paintball wars. Ninja Stars is of course a classic. I like to throw them out the passenger side window while driving by pedestrians.

Dodecahedron

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Wednesday, April 02 2003 @ 10:38 am EST

You need 12 discs, 30 thin cable binders an a 3mm drill.
- drill five holes, one every 72°, near the perimeter.
- take 3 disks and 3 cable binders, connect the the discs to a triangle by using two neigboured holes on every disk.
- connect the next disc in the same way and so on.
The result is a football-sized dodecahedron.

good for practical jokes

Authored by: heavy on Thursday, April 03 2003 @ 01:52 pm EST

my friend and I have a back and forth game of "where's the aol cd" going on. I've stashed them in his shoes at home while he's not looking while finding them throughout my home and car.

a while back and placed them all over the exterior of his car while it was snowing, he had a nice surprise waiting for him the next morning.

i've got about 25 of them now, just waiting for a good opportunity.

Best use for AOL CDs?

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, November 10 2003 @ 12:14 am EST

review mirrors for your riding lawnmower!

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