101 Uses for AOL CDs, by iSpy
(orig­i­nally posted on Ars Tech­nica)

#1. Mini cut­ting board (great for the office or the car, use metal door for knife).
#2. Attach it to a ruler and presto! — you've got a fly swat­ter.
#3. Con­struct a life size replica of Stone­henge.
#4. At a restau­rant, shove one under a wob­bling table leg.
#5. Money clip (use the metal door and dis­card the plas­tic case…the "rich nerd" look is IN this year).
#6. Eye patch (for one-eyed soft­ware pirates).
#7. Christ­mas orna­ments (the more the mer­rier).
#8. Give them to young chil­dren to use as build­ing blocks.
#9. Glue them to the bot­tom of the space shut­tle and use them as re-entry burn tiles.
#10. Den­tures (melt & form them into new teeth for grandma).
#11. Room dividers for ham­sters.
#12. Drink coast­ers.
#13. Use mul­ti­ple disks to cre­ate an ideal door stop­per.
#14. Ice scraper.
#15. Bath­room tile.
#16. Book­mark.
#17. Mini fris­bee.
#18. Air hockey puck.
#19. Dog chew toy.
#20. Dart board.
#21. Pooper scooper.
#22. Grill scraper.
#23. Use them for karate board-breaking demon­stra­tions (save a tree).
#24. Wrist slicer — after receiv­ing first AOL bill (use metal door).
#25. Con­ver­sa­tion piece for cof­fee table.
#26. Destroy them — smash, burn, or run over to relieve stress.
#27. Light switch cover.
#28. Chi­nese throw­ing stars (tape 2 together).
#29. Clay pigeons for tar­get prac­tice.
#30. Greet­ing card (bind two together at one end).
#31. Hal­loween treat (give them away all night long).
#32. Bul­let proof vest (arrange together in triple thick­ness).
#33. Fire­wood.
#34. Bird house.
#35. Paper weights.
#36. Pen hold­ers (make a box with­out a top).
#37. Post it-notes holder.
#38. Refrig­er­a­tor mag­net (glue a mag­net to the back).
#39. A very sturdy base for putting the motor­cy­cle side­stand on when park­ing
#40. Keep 'em in the trunk for extra trac­tion in the snow.
#41. Solar Eclipse Glasses (open door and look through disk at the sun/moon –actu­ally works).
#42. Plac­ing one in each back pocket helps chil­dren who get pad­dled by the coach. This spreads the force to a wider area.
#43. Make an AOL disk & pasta casse­role.
#44. Incense burn­ers (put stick in hole of disk hub and light the incense.
#45. Bug Shield (glue a bunch to the front of your car's hood).
#46. Put them on car wind­shields at the mall (along with this list).
#47. Melt the plas­tic of the disks into a giant sculp­ture.
#48. Hand them out as party favors.
#49. Hidden/spare key holder (crack open 1 side, insert key and then place near door. Com­pletely safe…who would want an AOL disk?)
#50. Ver­ti­cal blinds.
#51. Be an AOL diskette sur­geon and dis­ect a diskette.
#52. Bench press weights (I can press 120).
#53. Grind 'em up and refer­til­ize the front lawn.
#54. The new "Domino's stuffed-crust pizza" fill­ing.
#55. Tell the kids to leave warm milk & AOL disks for Santa.
#56. Brake shoes.
#57. House insu­la­tion.
#58. Recy­cle them for the scrap metal.
#59. Kitchen tile for Bill Gates' new man­sion in Sea­tle (walk all over the com­pe­ti­tion)
#60. Hockey Puck.
#61. Add water and spe­cial plant life to make a Chia-Disk.
#62. Noise maker for your bike spokes (why dam­age your valu­able base­ball cards).
#63. Put one on a leash and drag it along as you walk…makes the per­fect pet.
#64. Poker chips.
#65. Base­ball prac­tice (throw them up in the air and hit them with the bat).
#66. Key­chain (Put a key ring through one of the writepro­tect holes and you've got a snappy exec­u­tive bath­room key­chain for the office).
#67. Mail to 10 friends-start an AOL chain-letter (add a disk with each link).
#68. Ear­muffs (glue some fur on one side, then attach a U-shaped piece of bent coathanger to both disks).
#69. Grind them up to make fake snow.
#70. Ear­rings (put loop into write-protect hole).
#71. Den­tal floss (use actual disk).
#72. Use them for zip­per pulls (instead of ski lift tick­ets).
#73. When your col­lec­tion of disks reaches 52, use them for a deck of cards.
#74. Use them to fill pot­holes.
#75. Hood orna­ment.
#76. Snow blower replace­ment blades.
#77. Put them in your shirt pocket to make you look smart.
#78. Make two stacks of 10 and use them as heels for plat­form shoes.
#79. Rubic's cube case (make into box).
#80. Ship­ping mate­r­ial (keeps your pho­tos from being bent in the mail).
#81. Pro­tect your table from burns caused by hot pots and pans.
#82. Snack trays (great for hold­ing hors d'oeuvres at par­ties).
#83. Give them as stock­ing stuffers to all those peo­ple who piss you off.
#84. Fly paper (use actual disk and put string through mid­dle, hang 2" apart and apply honey to disks).
#85. Pocket pro­tec­tor (gee Gilbert I really like your new pocket pro­tec­tor –thanks Lewis).
#86. They make a *dandy* addi­tion to a #$*+&% neighbor's back yard. Bet­ter yet, get them to actu­ally install it on their com­puter.
#87. Use them as elbow and knee pads.
#88. Wax scraper for snow­boards.
#89. Use them to dec­o­rate your aquar­ium and cre­ate Com­puter City under water.
#90. Tape a few together and use them as a mouse pad.
#91. Col­lect a large mass and det­o­nate a super­nova.
#92. A wind clacker (sim­i­lar to a wind chime).
#93. Soap dish (remove metal to pre­vent rust­ing).
#94. Row mark­ers for your veg­etable gar­den. (car­rots, beans, peas.…)
#95. Makes the per­fect dance floor for your ant colony.
#96. Bread roller (use actual disks and put rod through center-use about 100).
#97. Hot glue gun resting/protecting pad.
#98. Baby mobile.
#99. Fence (may need a few thou­sand).
#100. Toe tags for mor­tu­ar­ies. Great for iden­ti­fy­ing dead com­puter nerds.
#101. Won­der­bra inserts for that Madonna-techno look.