The resulting fire eventually burned down the two-story house, which was about 250 square meters (about 2,700 square feet) and made partially from wood… His mother was also in the house but escaped without injuries.”

Jeepers, what a nut job. [The Kobe Shimbun (translated) via Anime News Network via Current]

I’m normally a Hander-boxers guy, but I need something more for my workouts on the iPhone Treadmill—that’s where these tighty-whities shine. The Handerpants are made of 95% cotton and 5% Spandex to ensure a comfortable fit, and are a bargain at $US11.95 a pair. If you still can’t get enough Handerpants magic after watching the video, there is a free ringtone so you can relive the wonderment everytime you get a call.

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I had to watch his dementedly baroque video—which is featured at The Standard Hotel, New York—a few times to get all the details. In the process, I got scared but aroused at the same time. Strangely enough, now I want pizza.

Pizza topped with tomato, cheese, little people, marshmallows, flames, and naked angels. [Motionographer via Dark Roasted Blend]

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Meet Peter Terren. Inspired by the The Thinker, he set out to recreate that classic sculpture using electricity, wire caging, a conductive foil suit, and a death wish. Can’t forget the death wish.

Now, we’ve seen Terren and Tesla Down Under’s work before here at Gizmodo, most notably when he put his son in a car and zapped it with electricity.

This little project, however, put him in the hot seat. Note the electricity shooting out of his sneaker.

Lucky for us all, Terren meticulously documented the entire project with photos and safety-related commentary (”The wig is not ideal and really needs a haircut. I couldn’t light it with sparks so fire risk seems low”).

Terren also outfitted some of the tests with a pentagram boundary, which had nothing to do with Tesla coils or electricity, of course, but certainly heightened the sense of batshit insanity surrounding this little venture. [Tesla Down Under via Neatorama]

I guess if you want to be buried in style and comfort, you’ll need one of these suckers. Sign me up, because I sure don’t want to be sweating bullets in my coffin. You know what, might as well throw in some Doritos and an Xbox in there while you’re at it. [Daily Star via Crave]

Or maybe is this one?

[Thanks Ariel]

Leave it to the nation who contrived Russian Roulette to come up with rope jumping. It looks totally simple and straight forward, until you just think for a second about the physics involved. If you jump straight down, you could dislocate some important part of your body, or worse, you could snap the rope and keep on falling. The key is to jump so that you swing across the underside of the bridge, and to trust that your rope is attached to something that ain’t going nowhere.

And you’d better be coordinated when doing it in groups of, say, 54—like above—lest someone on their backswing hits you as you’re heading down.

Still not dangerous enough? Well, according to English Russia, rope jumpers like to up the ante by jumping…

…when there is no water under the bridge but raw firm ice, also they use to jump at that same moment when the train is going thru the bridge.

None for me, thanks, but good luck to you. [English Russia; Russos]

The double jump was made by Levi LaValle at the Winter X Games on a 200kg Polaris snowmobile. I’m more the giant Antarctic snowmobile type, the one that can carry planes and have a small apartment inside, but I can appreciate the absolutely nutterini risk this jump involves. [Freecaster--Not available in the US or Canada]