It’s one of those circular problems – you need shelves because you have no space, but you need space to put the shelves. Argh!

The trick? Create space that becomes shelves, by tearing a hole in your dry wall between two studs and building shelves in the damn wall. Sounds crazy?

Although these cabinets or shelves will be narrow in depth, they can be used for any of the following: a pantry in the kitchen, paperback shelves in bedrooms and family rooms, a second medicine cabinet or towel storage in the bathroom, shelves for stuffed animals in a child’s room, or storage for hanging long tools, such as shovels and rakes, in the basement or garage.

Sounds feasible. Just don’t go nuts – those walls are there for a reason.

Building Between-Studs Shelving [How Stuff Works via Apartment Therapy]

If the posters, the billboards, the TV commercials, common sense or the legacies of dead friends-of-friends are still not enough to stop you from driving home drunk, the State of New Mexico is going to speak to you in a language you can understand – urinal cakes.

Using motion-sensor technology, the Wizmark Interactive Urinal Communicator (we’re not kidding) detects the approaching, uh, client, and delivers a short, calm, sweet message encouraging well-lubricated patrons to consider getting home by means other than their own.

Although the really drunk will probably run away screaming the second they hear a talking urinal cake, perhaps the less-drunk-but-still-too-drunk-to-drive, having so far ignored everyone else’s advice, will heed the warning of their small, drenched friend.

We’ll leave the last word to the Wizmark itself: “Remember, your future is in your hand.”

DWI message finds home in urinal [Free New Mexican via Crunch Gear]

There’s probably no more fitting end for Jeremy Clarkson than to die at the hands of hillbillies in pick-up trucks, but we like James May too much for him to be afforded the same fate.

Top Gear Gets Attacked by Rednecks [YouTube via Jalopnik]