Category: looky

This is rad- an entire site full of crappy products!
Web link of note: Stupid Gifts
(At http://www.stupid.com)

It’s Octodog!

It makes a hot dog into a octopus. Really.

Looks like one of those things you see in in-flight catalogs.
Web link of note: Octodog
(At http://octodog.net/)

All flameworked pieces made with with moretti, kiln cast work done with gaffer crystal by Amy Johnson.

ehmejayeh@yahoo.ca

ehme@ehmeglass.com

See also her gallery at glassarists.org.

Her tube shapes are really great- sort of like tentacles, or macaroni.

She also has a series of glass rings and beads which are female torsos!

Web link of note: Ehme Glass
(At http://ehmeglass.com/)

Jim Rose rules.

This book is pretty much like a summary journal of how the Jim Rose Circus got started, and how Rose travelled to Europe to learn some of his nuttier sideshow tricks.

Jim Rose’s act made Ozzy Osbourne sick. Awesome.

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Wow.

This guy is great… his plan for utopia based on converting everything to run off hydrogen is pretty brilliant and straight out of a comic book.

But the visual of the “windship” floating factories bobbing around in the ocean, generating hydrogen… that’s just awesome. All we need now are zepplins and sky cars and we can live the dream!
Web link of note: Harry Braun for President
(At http://www.braunforpresident.us/)

I just saw a SBC Yahoo ad- it’s a woman wearing a very low-cut night gown, a vacant look in her eye…
She’s not even making eye contact, she’s just staring off into space with puckered lips. The words say “CLICK to learn MORE about DSL”

When DSL first came out, a bunch of us would jokingly ask each other “do you have Dick Sucking Lips?” to ask about high speed internet access, because up until that technology was offered, that phrase is what the Three Letter Acronym “DSL” meant to us.

I wonder if the advertising guys knew that phrase? Probably, even if the original marketers who coined the TLA “DSL” did not. Maybe the association is intentional to boost sales!

At any rate, it’s still pretty silly to have this woman advertising DSL… unless they mean you should be using it to download porn faster.

“Mediated Reality”- filtering and augmenting your perception through the use of wearable computing!

Steve Mann is the guy… I can’t seem to find his 2000 book,
“Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer,” or the 2001 documentary,
“Cyberman.”

Steve Mann himself is a bit of a firebrand… one of his big issues is with surveillance cameras and their abuse by authority and plutocracy. He’s a professor at University of Toronto.

See also Prof. Kevin Warwick (University of Reading, UK) who implanted the chip in his arm.
Web link of note: EyeTap
(At http://www.eyetap.org/)

An independant label doing a Napster/iTunes thing- an open music store.

You pay for the song, just like on iTunes… but its indy label, so more goes to the artist!
Web link of note: MagnaTune
(At http://magnatune.com/)

Want to be scared? Check out the only vibrator recommended by Dr Ruth.

I swear the more “advanced” sex toys get the more they remind me of tentacle porn.
Web link of note: Eroscillator
(At http://www.eroscillator.com/)

The Rattle Ring is a two-piece tubular band of 18-karat gold with eight discrete interior compartments, each sized to hold one loose quarter-carat diamond. When the inner part of the ring is rotated against the outer part, a small square portal slides open, revealing in turn each diamond, nestled in its “house” — as one observer so aptly named the compartments. A gentle tap, and the diamonds fall onto a waiting hand or tabletop, sparkling with fire and light. Once the stones are replaced, the ring is rotated closed with a reassuring click, its precious contents safe and secure.

Silly. What is the point of a diamond ring where you can’t see the diamonds?!
Web link of note: Rattle Ring
(At http://johnreinhold.com/)