I once knew someone who got a whole bunch of them (she was bumming them off of everyone for months) and then she wallpapered the walls to her bedroon with them. Very cool, unless you had to be in there for too long, then it kinda gave you a headache. Oh well.
I Asia I have seen them used as reflectors on the mud flaps of motorcycles and trucks.
I have to third this, it really does look awesome, and the end result is a funny lookin’ CD (which can be used nicely as a clay pigeon for shotgun practice)
- Build a gigantic pyramid in landfill for future generations to wonder at our ingenuity/stupidity/overabundance of plastic.
- One word: ashtrays.
- Collect them in their thousands, and simply leave them on the steps of the Supreme Court.
- Send fake chain e-mails saying that for every old disc returned to AOL, they’ll contribute 5c to the World Wrestling Federation’s legal battle against the World Wildlife Fund for the initials WWF…
- Compress the human genome code, save it on each one, and insist every disc be considered your legal adopted child. Give them cute names. Take them shopping.
- Combine with glue and cement to make the eighth wonder of the world - a vast entranceway to Washington DC known simply as the Bill Gates.
- Recycle - stick them to the cover of your church bulletin/Sunday School newspaper/family Christmas cards and give them away. It doesn’t matter that they’re out of date because no-one uses them anyway, and everyone appreciates a freebie.
- Offer movie-tie-in “Jolly Meals” in your church cafeteria - a burger, drink, fries and a free lump of plastic. Tell the kids it’s a toy from The Matrix. Avoid litigation by giving the meal free and charging for the “toy”.
- Save your details on each one and hand them out as business cards.
- Take them round the zoo till you find an animal that loves to eat electronic media. Buy this animal, breed thousands, and release them into Silicon Valley.
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110 Things to do with old AOL floppies
Coooool.
I have heard that if you hang unwanted CDs from a tree the deer wont mess with your garden.
Not sure if it’s true as I have no garden, a fenced yard and well frankly I live in the middle of suburbia…not many deer in these here postage stamp sized lots.
Ooohh… I’ve always wanted to do this, but thought it would be too small (when I was little and bought little valentine’s day cards, they specifically said on the box that the cards were non-mailable).
thank you!
And I used to go to the mall with my friends, we’d each go to the record store and get a handful of them and go play frisbee.
My personal favorite use for them is as archery targets. They make such a satisifying sound when they crack.
So do I. I’ve made dozens of them, and give them as gifts, along with other stuff I crochet. People LOVE these things. The CD makes them very sturdy, and the crochet covers make them very decorative. And they are SO FREAKING EASY to make, if you know how to crochet. Less than an hour. 
We intend to use some as signal mirrors when we sail… they’re bigger than the mirrors you buy in survival kits and they’re free, so if they get lost - who cares?? Unless, of course, the boat sinks and we’re bobbing in the ocean without signal mirrors…
hmmmmm…
But someone out there is using them to make tesla coils or some other high voltage stuff. I’ve seen the site, and they’ve done some pretty need stuff with them and have lots of pics. I’ll try and find the site and post it here tomorrow unless someone else turns it up first.
??? How does this work? This seems even more unlogical than a coaster.
I know a guy who wrote “Jesus Saves” on the shiny side, then strung a piece of yarn through it and wore it as a necklace every day to school for a few weeks.
I personally write my name on them and then hang them on my door.
Me and someone else in my fraternity used to collect junk CD’s from others in the house (usually the result of a failed attempt to burn a CD) and throw them around the house until they broke. The normal plan was to stand at opposite ends of a hallway and bounce them off the floor at each other. The big, fire-hazard, staircase was fun as well. Once we wanted more, so we requested copies of AOL for everyone in the house. If you know where to look, you can see a couple little dings in the walls, but the floors seem to have withstood the abuse (they withstand a lot of abuse).
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good times, good times.
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I take 'em to our garage, turn on the power sander, and mutilate the surface so that they may never provide data to anyone, ever.
Then I break them into four pieces and nail 'em to my wall (I have five right now… each one a different type).
Originally posted by jadailey:
But the floppies that AOL sent out were the cheapest, crappiest kind you could get. It was even odds that you’d get a bunch of disk errors when you tried to reformat them and use them again.