Steampunk: I’m over it. And this ridiculous Steampunk Toilet is a good example why. I mean, come on. [NerdSalad via Technabob]

The Axixa concept involves installing urinals outside of buildings—urinals with a classy pee-stain aesthetic. I’m not sure how these would work exactly, but even if the urinals weren’t inappropriately shaped I don’t see local businesses going for it. So, I recommend sticking with Ray Tempus’ 15-Point Guide to Peeing In the City. It’s an urban survival guide that will teach you everything you need to know. [The Design Blog]

Worse still, it may be clogged, although not with the kind of stuff you’d think. Nay, no plunger will help in this case, as the clog is chemical in nature, and may have seeped into the figurative space station woodwork.

Unfortunately, mission control and the astronauts have few leads into why the multi-million dollar Russian-built space john crapped the bed for a second time in the past two years. Previously, the toilet was so crippled by whatever it was the astronauts were eating up there that the fix required an emergency replacement pump delivery from space shuttle Discovery.

For now, the 13 crew members on board have to split their number one’s and two’s between the remaining ISS toilet and one aboard the shuttle. If another toilet fails, the crew can fall back on Apollo-era waste collection bag, which is nice because we’re currently celebrating that mission’s 40th anniversary. [BBC]

Instead, we should be thinking about our poop. Like how much water we waste when we poop or how many people in this world don’t have a pot to poop in. The Loowatt solves this problem with a structure that is composed of 90% horse poop. The biodegradable lining stores your poop which will be inserted later into an outdoor biodigestor—a device that turns said poop into biofuel for cooking. It’s like the poop circle of life. The project has been well received in exhibits around the world, but funding is still needed to get the Loowatt off the ground. And don’t worry—your contribution will not go unrewarded. For only £17 ($28) you will receive your very own “poo gem” to cherish forever. Awesome?

*number of times poop was referenced in this article: 12 (poopity poop poop) 15 [Loowatt via Dwell via Inhabitat]

On one side you have a toilet and on the other, a urinal. The toilet rotates between the two at the press of a button and self-cleans with steam and a UV light bath. So you are getting both a urinal and a toilet in a single, compact unit that not only cleans itself, but most likely would result in cost savings with regard to water usage. Again, this is only a concept, but it is one that has limitless potential. [Yanko via DVICE]

If I could pay $1000 to never pick up a dog’s feces, I might spend that money. Alas, the PowerLoo does not prevent that egobreaking act.

Despite connecting to your outdoor plumbing lines, the PowerLoo is not a backyard doggie toilet. The PowerLoo is a backyard crap flusher (read: you pick up dog crap then place it in the toilet). And while I’m sure it adds some level of convenience to doodie disposal, the $US1000 price is on par with one of those fancy, Japanese toilets that literally air dries the cellulite from your butt. Coming this June. [PowerLoo via Treehugger via DVICE]

Michael Anderson Godwin was a murderer. He was awaiting South Carolina’s electric chair in 1989 when he decided to fix his TV set while sitting on his cell’s metal toilet. You can probably see where this is going.

Being on death row is lonely, so having a TV is important to your sanity. Godwin’s was on the fritz, so he decided to multitask by trying to fix it while using the commode.

The last stupid decision of his life was to bite down on an exposed wire in the plugged-in TV while sitting on the metal toilet. He was electrocuted instantly, making his own kind of electric chair and saving the state the trouble.

Machines Behaving Deadly: A week exploring the sometimes difficult relationship between man and technology.

Wow, a literal Twitter shitter. Pretty simple—every time it’s flushed, it twitters gems like this using arduino hardware. The Twitter cycle of poo is now complete. [Hacklab via HackADay via PopSci]