This is an adorable little video of what baking cookies would be like if it were anything similar to running Photoshop . Unfortunately, it’s not. Which is how I managed to burn my old house down. Kidding, KIDDING — I was hoping to catch the ex-wife while she was sleeping. Ssshhhhhh!! Adobe Photoshop Cook [buzzfeed] Thanks to Mary, who is skilled enough to bake casseroles in MS Paint.

The Wasabi Fire Detector alerts you to the danger of fire with the smell of delicious condimentation. Provided you can smell it over all the smoke. And remembered to replace the batteries after you took them out that time you accidentally burnt a bag of popcorn. Actually, the alarm was designed with the deaf in mind. So a Japanese company called Air Water Safety Service has developed a new type of fire alarm that uses smell instead of sound. More specifically, it uses the chemical compound allyl isothiocyanate, which you’ll find in horseradish and wasabi, in specific quantities so as to wake someone up without giving them a burning sensation in their eyes. In testing the alarm has been found to be effective in a room roughly about 50 square feet in size, waking someone up with smell alone in about 2 and a half minutes. Not exactly springing out of bed mind you, but it does seem to work. Unfortunately the $560 price tag has meant the units aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, but the company hopes a redesign can bring the price down to a slightly more reasonable, but still kind of expensive, $225. I happened to get a model to test, so I’m gonna start a fire in a trashcan and get into bed. I’ll let you know how it goes. PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!! SUSHI!! Wasabi Smell Smoke Alarms [ohgizmo]

Zac Efron, captain of the Wildcats basketball team, has reportedly signed on to two new projects that he hopes will distance him from being thought of as an elven song and dance man. With Universal, Efron is set to star in Fire , an adaptation of comics goldenboy Brian Michael Bendis’s graphic novel of the same name. The sprite-like actor would play “a college student who is recruited by the CIA, only to find that he has been trained for a program that creates expendable agents,” which basically sounds a like a mix between Scud: The Disposable Assassin and Agent Cody Banks . Meanwhile, Efron also set up a separate deal with Warner Bros. that would cast him in “a Back To The Future -like film that melds two projects. One’s a pitch from writers Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski, and the other is a WB project called Algorithm that the studio was already developing as a directing vehicle for Nick Stoller.” So it’s derivative and an ill-conceived amalgam of unrelated ideas! Sounds great already. Regardless of how either project turns out, I will say it’s nice to see another biological creation of Disney severing the saccharine umbilical cord. Even if he is standing on the shoulders of Shias.

Cole Blaq went and made some realistic flames out of LEGO blocks and lit them from beneath for a nice fiery glow . They look good. Plus, if you look closely enough you can see they actually spell his name. And for you those of you that are grammatically challenged the letters you’re looking for are “C-O-L-E”. I couldn’t really see the E myself but I’ve been assured it’s there. Probably after the “L”, BUT DON’T HOLD ME TO THAT. Hit the jump for several more shots of the flaming plastic goodness.

Alternatively, high-py birthday. Do I know my word wizardry or what? And don’t “or what” me either or you’ll leave me no choice but to WHIP YOUR MONKEY ASS. Yes I’m feeling fighty this morning. I think it was something in my coffee . Namely, the steroids. Kidding, I don’t juice. Unless we’re talking boxes in which case fruit punch, please. Blowing out the candles will never be a drag again! Time to roll out another birthday? Celebrate in style with our LIT! Birthday Candles. Set includes 8 perfectly rolled 3.5″ joint candles. Please remember to not inhale! Hoho, look at all those weedy puns! Huh? What do you mean I’m no better because I did the same thing? I AM TOO, JERK! Right? Somebody, anybody, back me up. Please? Product Site Thanks to Closet Nerd, who may or may not be hotboxing t closehatt even as I type (I suspect he is, his sweaters always smell).

Alternatively, high-py birthday. Do I know my word wizardry or what? And don’t “or what” me either or you’ll leave me no choice but to WHIP YOUR MONKEY ASS. Yes I’m feeling fighty this morning. I think it was something in my coffee . Namely, the steroids. Kidding, I don’t juice. Unless we’re talking boxes in which case fruit punch, please. Blowing out the candles will never be a drag again! Time to roll out another birthday? Celebrate in style with our LIT! Birthday Candles. Set includes 8 perfectly rolled 3.5″ joint candles. Please remember to not inhale! Hoho, look at all those weedy puns! Huh? What do you mean I’m no better because I did the same thing? I AM TOO, JERK! Right? Somebody, anybody, back me up. Please? Product Site Thanks to Closet Nerd, who may or may not be hotboxing t closehatt even as I type (I suspect he is, his sweaters always smell).

Ever seen a giant Santa on fire? Now you have. This electrical safety warning comes to us all the way from Santa Catarina, Brazil . Remember: despite what your father may have taught you, drinking and Christmas decorating don’t mix. “Russ, we checked every bulb , didn’t we?” Poor Santa, I can see him now, “HO, HO, HO, MEEERRY CHRISTMAS! HO, HO, HOLY SHIT I’M ON FIRE! AAAH IT BUUUUUUUURNS!” Hit the jump to see the whole progression from beginning to sad, sad end.

This is a firescreen that makes it appear as though London is burning in your fireplace . There’s one of Rome too, after the jump. BURN!! It’s been a long time since fire ravaged London and Rome in 1666 and 64 AD respectively–which must be why we can feel okay about making cool firescreens based on these tragic incidents today. Very clever. Of course, I want a custom one with a bunch of mangled robot corpses in the back and me riding a dino in the foreground. Just like how it happens in the future. Don’t believe me? Then where did this passage come from: And on the seventh day, while God was resting, man foolishly invented robots. Man, being the idiot moron that he is, said, “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it”, and they did. Then God woke up and saw the metallic shitstorm down below and sent the Geekologie Writer to whip their robotic monkey asses atop his wicked dino-mount. Plus laserbeams. This is the word of the Geekologie Writer. Amen Pew pew. Hit the jump for Rome burning.

This is a video of a tree which, unable to cope with the unruly birds and squirrels that have taken up residence in its branches, has decided to off itself with the help of a nearby power line. It’s almost as painful to watch as your apartment building going up in flames because you were trying to grow pot in your closet. Almost . NOT THAT I’D KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. Pfft, I went to D.A.R.E.! Tree Electrocutes Self [collegehumor] Thanks to NUTZBABIE, who I would probably steer clear of.

This is a picture of the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, taken by current commander of the International Space Station at the time, Frank Culbertson. Damn, has it really been eight years? Remember. The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack from Space [gizmodo]