madness

This redefines awesome. In case the musical Tesla coils weren't enough - perhaps hankering after your own, personal coil for those dark winter nights? - the geniuses at RM Cybernetics have released do-it-yourself instructions for making your own personal Tesla coil.

You may have heard about Microsoft buying a share of Facebook. The rumoured purchase of a 5% stake in Facebook for between $300 and $500 million values the social networking site at a staggering $10 billion.

Say that again in your best Dr. Evil voice - "ten billion dollars"

Following on from the recent Billionaires Toyshop ideas, what else would $10 billion buy you?

How about:

• 469 tonnes of gold
• 127 million online subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal - enough for everyone in Japan

Anyone still think these numbers are normal?

The Register have a great article up about the sort of toys billionaires could (and should, dammit!) be buying.

Covering the usual dull stuff light yachts and planes, they then move on to the really cool stuff - submarines and space craft.

I thought this was a good Photoshop job when I first saw it - this has to be seen to be believed:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/Septembe...

Fantastic!

Cheers,
TOM