World Toilet Day!

So, in case you missed it, World Toilet Day was last Friday, November, 19th. BUT you still have time to make a video about poo for this contest, run by Water for People. Well, they say make a video about poo. But it's really a video about toilets. All the stuff the TP blog is really about: toilet failure, toilet success and toilet innovation!

The World Toilet Organization (www.worldtoilet.org) has more info on World Toilet Day here. (Not to be confused with International Toilet Paper Day, which is August 26).

Meanwhile, get out your cameras/recording device of choice. The deadline for your poo-filled , toilet-happy video is December 2, 2010.

And if you are looking for mugs to hold your coffee, various containers for other liquids, or a tote for all that solid food you're going to eat, all to help you keep going back to the toilet again and again, you can shop the Water for People store here. Oh, and they have pens, too. So I guess you can keep a record of it.

Thanks to Agent BP for alerting us to this contest!

{Image via WaterforPeople.org}

Steampunk Toilet

You know you want it. Well, I do. It's the "Antique Toilet of the Future." Otherwise known as the Steampunk toilet.

Steampunk, in case you didn't know, is the quasi-futuristic-Victorian-era-throwback-maker-y movement among the artist type people who like to make things for the Hell of it, or really for the pleasure of it, or because it looks cool. All of these things. This blogger, for one, is very interested, and would like to get or make herself a steampunk laptop someday. Ah, a writer can dream.

But back to the toilet!

So, this one comes with a "control panel," lights, gauges of unexplained significance, a coffee cup holder, brass seat, and, of course, a laser.

Because who doesn't need a laser on their toilet?

I do.

Anyone for tennis?