No, I’m not talking about the disastrous performance by Britney Spears at the recent MTV awards. Seems like average folks like you and me have gotten tired of aspiring to have the impossibly thin figure of fashion models. Now the tide is turning. Following the banning of super-skinny models (i.e. those with a body mass… Read More »
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to… Read More »
The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle. You have to inform five different sales people in the same store that you’re just browsing. The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets in. The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish… Read More »
Notwithstanding FORTUNE magazine’s portrayal of him as a futurist (“The smartest (or the nuttiest) futurist on Earth”, May 14 issue), Ray Kurzweil has demonstrated an eerie sense of delusion. An obvious indication of his delusional nature is that the man intends not to die. And he’s planning to achieve that by taking 230 supplement pills,… Read More »
The Flying Alarm Clock from Hammacher Schlemmer may be the most irksomely effective alarm clock ever created. This devious device has a propeller-driven module that flies off when the alarm goes off, making a really annoying noise like a mosquito. But that’s not all. The alarm only stops when the rotor is installed back in… Read More »
Here’s a bogus “rent-a-wife” advertising by a Belgian DVD rental company that sparked the fury of feminist groups across Belgium: Some of you probably wished that the service is for real. Related story: Fury Over Rent-A-Wife Ad