The Labyrinth Balancing Board is a carved wooden board that you have to maintain your balance on, while maneuvering balls through a maze. This is an evil combination of those little toys with ball bearing that are impossible, and an Indo Board. The Indo Board seems alot more challenging, but with more risk of injury. Of course, if you really want to get injured, go for the old classic, the skateboard.
Add comment November 29th, 2005
Vote for my Threadless tshirt design submission! FEED ME is a play on the billion different XML / RSS / Blog / Feed type buttons that are on every site these days. The geek in you needs to know, and know NOW. If you’re a blogger or flickr freak your friends will get a kick out of this typography design.
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The microwave science documents the abuse of the household appliance. Only twisted minds would put a light bulb in the microwave and hit “Start”. Poor USB device. Sad Cell phone. At least my experiments have only been food. This cruelty to gadgets is too horrible. Please, no more. I can’t condone it.
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Girl dies in peanut butter kiss: A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours earlier. I’m glad I don’t have any allergies.
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My friend Rigpa had some funny comments about fingerprint locks:
I was just thinking why thumb fingerprint key access will never catch on:
The building maintenance guy will have to carry arround a large keychain full of thumbs.
Ask the gas station attendant for the key to the bathroom. You get a thumb attached to some large object (a tire rim?) so no one will steal it.
It’s hard to drive a car having to keep a thumb in the ignition key.
It’s difficult to get a duplicate thumb.
Passer-bys will wonder why you are displaying your key, when all you really want is to thumb a ride.
You will have to trim the thumbnails on your keychain to keep it from getting too bulky.
If you spend too long out in the pool and your fingers get pruney? you’d have to call a thumbsmith to get back into your house
Add comment November 28th, 2005
Taiyo BuzzTrainer- USB PC Training [via Spyhunter]
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After extensive research in Japan, Taiyo Inc has finally released its USB powered BuzzTrainer. The BuzzTrainer assists computer users in learning software, and can also be used to eliminate bad PC habits. Through the use of small electric shocks administered through the wrist strap, the BuzzTrainer is guaranteed to improve your PC skills, help you restrain specific behaviors, or control PC addiction.
The BuzzTrainer software comes with Buzz Tutorials for Windows XP, Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer and more! Problems with your children or employees looking at porn or using chat rooms? You can setup Buzz Keywords in 3 easy steps to control this! Configure any application as a BuzzApp and eliminate the desire to spend hours gaming, to file share, or to download illegal music. Or you can write your own Buzz Scripts with the highly configurable scripting language.
But BuzzTrainer isn’t just limited to exciting training opportunities - it can also be used as an acupressure system. Used as an electro-reflexologist, the BuzzTrainer offers a pain free way to improve your health through the 5 points of acupressure on each wrist. Doctors know that electric shocks, if administered correctly, restore and maintain proper blood circulation not only in a person’s hands, but also in his entire body because of its all-encompassing effects. Simple programming takes only a few seconds, and then 5-min of use per day will enhance your well-being. Thousands of people are using it to their benefit.
This product is not to be used by people with pacemakers, pregnant women, or children under 12 years old.
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9 comments November 28th, 2005
The Treadmill Bike is one of the dumbest inventions I’ve seen lately. Why not just walk!
1 comment November 27th, 2005
Does this sound familiar: Apple is upset over BuyMusic.com airing parodies of their silhouette ads. This is not new news - date goes back to 2003. It sure is interesting to see how these issues go back and forth: “Copyright law provides protection for an expression of an idea, but not for the idea itself. However, there is ’substantial similarity’ between the two ads that could be used ‘at least as a valuable argument’ for a copyright-infringement lawsuit”
Add comment November 27th, 2005
I use an Apple Powerbook Titanium alot. The paint on the edges where your wrists sit has flaked off, exposing the bare metal underneath. This in itself is pretty disappointing for a high end product, but getting shocked by that metal is even more disturbing. Most of the time it isn’t a sudden electric shock, but more like a slow buildup of tingly feeling that ends up as a nasty buzz. I’ve seen places that sell TI-Paint touch up for the paint problem, but I’ve also read that it isn’t worth it.
update: a search on the problem turns up quite a few users with this problem on TI-books
3 comments November 26th, 2005
In a recent ad for the ROKR phone by Motorola, the girl dancing is rockin out to some catchy tunes. Azriel correctly identified the similarity of the guitar part to Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” - you go girl! The track used is “No Sleep Tonight” by The Faders. Here’s part of the lyrics.
I got you, i got you on my mind
And it’s time to make you see (what i want)
So i’ll just make this a little more obvious
Cuz i get what i want, and i want you to get with me!
Don’t think you know,
How far im gunna do
* You can’t stop this, feeling!
You can’t run away, baby i’m whats on your mind
You can’t stop this, feeling!
There’s no escape,
No sleep tonight,
You won’t get, no sleep tonight
Add comment November 25th, 2005
oddly i saw a CSI episode with a focus on hot dogs, as well as a history chennal show on hot dogs. and they didnt agree on the origin of the name.
1 comment November 24th, 2005
How do bail bonds work? Why is the ‘Dog’ after you? Well, the court sets the bail amount - how much dough someone will need to front in cash or property to get your sorry butt outta jail. The most cost effective way to get outta jail (just like monopoly) is to pony up the exact amount of your own cash. If you don’t have the money, you can get a bail bonds company to pay the money - but you gotta pay them a fee of 10% of the bail amount (no, you ain’t gettin it back). It is in their interest that you show up in court for your trial because if you skip or jump bail they lose the whole bail amount. That’s why they’re gonna send a bounty hunter with some serious hair styling issues after you. So, if the trial gets completed - no matter the result, if you appear in court etc, they get the bail money back. But they’ll probably see you again, next time you commit a crime! And thus is the bounty hunter circle of life.
Add comment November 24th, 2005
So I like Dirty Jobs. It’s a cool show, with a cool host, Mike Rowe. And I swear I just spotted him in an Ambien CR commcerial, where he’s just goofin around behind the ‘presenter’.
Add comment November 24th, 2005
I posted the individual mp3 files for two mix sets in non-zipped format on the Spyhunter site, since some people have been having trouble unzipping the compressed files. Both the breaks/trance set Approaching Infinity and breaks/house set Essential House Mix are now live.
Add comment November 24th, 2005
Owa Raha - A search for this term should come up with francis pimmel’s site site, with a list of books in his private library. But it isn’t - and primarily because of a bad meta tag set to revisit after 15 days. Though now changed to 1 day, it still hasn’t updated on google. I guess one must be careful when putting in meta tags huh! Francis Pimmel is an artist who creates historically accurate scale model versions of polynesian / Hawaiian canoes. A canoe by Pimmel is often made from woods native to Hawaii. The types of canoe include outriggers, fishing canoes, the Hokulea and more.
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