Home Improvement Minions: Crows vs. Flying Monkeys

Since making zombies is such a labor intensive process and they do half-assed work most of the time, I'm always looking for new minions of evil. So, this article at NPR really caught my attention.

Here is a short excerpt:

" Hacker Josh Klein wowed attendees this weekend at TED — the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference — with his "crow vending machine," a device that gives the birds peanuts for depositing a coin. It's all part of Klein's plan to train crows to save human lives.

Just wrapping up in Monterey, Calif., TED gives inventors 18 minutes to wow an audience of people who each paid $6,000 to be blown away by new ideas. Klein's game plan? To explain "why crows are better than flying monkeys, and how you can teach them to do your bidding."

Personally, I still think flying monkeys are the way to go. In addition to really freaking out your neighbors, they have opposable thumbs. I don't care how smart your average crow is, can he use a nail gun with that friggin' beak?

That isn't to say that having trained crows don't have their uses for the average DIY'er. Screw saving lives, let's focus on the important part: these birds collect money. And what DIY'er doesn't need more money? I don't know how fast these crows work, but I imagine that a whole flock of them working day after day could bring you quite a nice haul.