www.nomoreaolcds.com

These guys are trying to collect 1,000,000 of the much-loved AOL ad CD's that seem to be everywhere these days. Once they reach 1million CD's they will personally take them, drive them to AOL headquarters and dump them in front of their doors in an effort to stop this hideious waste of plastics. So in support of their valiant effort, feel free to send your AOL CD's to the address on their page, after scratching them to make sure they can never be used again of course.

They are currently at just over 64,000 CD's. I thought it was pretty funny =P

It is a humorus idea... but, like many of us, I don't
think they can visualize how much space one million CDs
could take up. Anyone care to take a stab at it? :D

Peace.

Actually they did the math. You can see it all here:

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/images/CD_math.jpg

we flip them silver-side-up and use them for coasters here.

They look pretty neat if you microwave them for 5 seconds or so :)

Me and my sis just experiment in ways to destroy them everytime we get one. She found that the round bit of the hammer is the best. I prefer the old bend it and hope it doesn't go into you eye routine.

I still have a few left, so I may send them in

I no longer have problems with my coffee mug burning rings on the table thanks to the patented AOL CD mugmat.

As for the AOL disks delivered in a little plastic box... I WANT MORE BOXES, I use them for my Burnt CD's to protect them and love them dearly.

The occasional game of frisbee is useful when trying to take that 1/4 hour break every hour.

They can be used if you get lost in some wilderness far away from home or a desert, in the sense that if it's daylight and there is sun, you can attract peoples attention by aiming the suns rays through reflecting off the disk.

If your really clever, an have a bit of black tape you might even find away to use your CD-RW on the disk, then you can send the disk to that nerd up the road you always complain about with a trojan attached (then he'll catch it, you can waste his system and he'll blame AOL)
[NOTE: That's said as a joke, don't do it]

Instead of a paper chase you could organise an AOL CD chase (But don't blame me if no one wants to pick the CD's up)

If you were to collect enough you could hire out an aircraft and drop them from the sky during a sunny day, and just imagine all the UFO reports and reports of the RADARS showing inconsist numbers of BLIPS.

You could try putting them only some electrical appliances like a Drill or a circular saw, for what reason... I'm not sure, but they fly into bits when they shatter.

You could try creating your own form of tranquile garden, and hang the AOL disks from the trees. (This can be useful if you grow fruit and have a problem with birds eating them). The shiny disks spinning in a faint breeze should make you realise there is no place like home... (Or the Dump)

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TIRED OF PEOPLE FULL BEAMING YOU AT NIGHT????
Then take some AOL disks, and stick them with the shinny side forwards on the front of your car. Thats right the next time your driving along and a person forgets that they are FULL BEAMING YOU, they will dazzle themselves.

Take up this off and you get a FREE FOG LIGHT REFLECTOR in the process.
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I'm sure there are moer uses.

Xelios They look pretty neat if you microwave them for 5 seconds or so
dude me and yumyum just put one in the macrowave and it does some kewl shit. i finnaly found a useful purpose for my AOL CDs. I reccomend everyone try this :D

Some plans, no matter how calculated, can backfire. It seems they won't have the last laugh themselves (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=528&ncid=528&e=6&u=/ap/20021111/ap_on_hi_te/aol_cd_return). A representative from AOL has offered to greet them at the front door to accept their gesture with open arms. Not only that, but if the gathering duo come up short in their bid for a million, AOL will put them over the top.

How much time, money and effort are they spending to return all of these to AOL, only to be welcomed? How much money are they saving AOL in the process, as they will receive a million bits of plastic that I'm positive will be recycled and sent out again.

Unfortunately, the only positive in this entire campaign is that these guys will be preventing a million pieces of plastic from being sent to landfills.

Peace.

If those guys dump 1 million discs at AOL's front door, I wouldn't be surprised if AOL calls the police to have them charged majorly for littering, and trespassing.

It seems alot of people (like pirates) think of CDs as just something you can go out and buy with a quarter, and can be tossed around the street with no worry at all, that they are not being wasted.

An infinite number of things are stored on CDs. Like some versions of 3D Studio Max which cost over $5,000 dollars. The amount of work put into the data, which is held on a piece of plastic with a thin layer of metal inside, cost an indescribable amount more than 25 cents for a generic CD-R (though most low quality CD-Rs favored by pirates come in large packs, bulk buying to save money, not a single disc).

Maybe alot of people will have blanks stares on their faces when they find out all of the earth's resources have been depleted and it has spelled their own doom. Maybe they'll be like "What do you mean? We're all going to starve to death?" I guess alot of people think the Amazon Rain Forest will not run out of trees to cut down.

Originally posted by Clarentavious
If those guys dump 1 million discs at AOL's front door, I wouldn't be surprised if AOL calls the police to have them charged majorly for littering, and trespassing.Um... did you read the article?AOL is responding by offering to help.

"If they reach their goal ... I'd be happy to give them directions and greet them at the door," company spokesman Nicholas Graham said. "We would make a contribution ourselves to put them over the top."
Peace.

Yes, I read the article - but do you really think they'll follow through with what they say? Would you trust the AOL company to do so? They'd proly back out like saddam.

That is a rather nonsensical comparison. :rolleyes:

Additionally, why would AOL back out of an advertising
bonanza that is costing them absolutely nothing to promote??

Peace.