Lifehacker’s Weirdest and Most Controversial Posts
Everybody gets a little ribbing at their birthday party, and we're no different. As part of Lifehacker's fourth birthday, let's take an awkward, yet light-hearted, stroll through the strangest and most controversial stuff we've posted.
Photo by tandemracer.
We're always pretty quick to jump on a video or tutorial that tells you how to assemble something new out of stuff that's cheap or already in your home, if it seems cool or useful enough. The second criteria of why you'd build it, or whether it's safe to, sometimes lags just behind the first press of "Publish." So while in posting DIYer Kipkay's turning a flashlight into a handheld burning laser does deliver a creative reuse of old DVD drives, it should have occurred to us that said creation is probably best left in a locked fire-proof box, never shown or explained to kids, and taken out only when everyone in the room is wearing dark goggles and signed off on release forms. Commenter EBone said it best in quoting Dave Attell on the game of horseshoes:
