Currently at nearly 3.6 million hits and counting, this YouTube vid on a Rube Goldbergian contraption that's not afraid to break glassware, employ open flame, and inconvenience a hamster would be the best thing to happen to your office in a long time:
The contraption is the work of Joseph Herscher, whom the New York Times has dubbed "Brooklyn's Rube Goldberg." There's a breakout of the device here, and a video interview with the man here.
See also: Melvin & 2D Photography.
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