Month: January 2004

the giant inflatible ball thing you get into and fall down cliffs with. I didn’t know the name of it, now here it is!
Web link of note: Zorb
(At http://www.zorb.com/)

W: It’s good stuff.
W: I have friends who were getting into “Absente” and that’s just wrong
W: I brought up Google and proved how easy it is to get by locating a source and ordering a bottle
W: got to me in 4 days
BRIAN: Absente? nasty alcohol without the wormwood?
BRIAN: What the hell is the point
W: it’s like Kenny G…
W: “jazz” for people who don’t like/are afraid of jazz
BRIAN: on my planet we call those people “losers”
SAM: It’s like O’Douls…
SAM: or maybe worse
SAM: Caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew.
SAM: It’s about as pointless as a castrated gigolo.

Nutjob- he’s selling “Valerie” a domestic robot, and trips to Mars.

Some interesting robot links though!
Web link of note: Android World
(At http://www.androidworld.com/)

J-pop store and fansite.

They have a compilation CD called simply “JPop CD!”
Web link of note: Tofu Records
(At http://www.tofurecords.com/)

A Hobbit cover band?!?
Web link of note: Lords of the Rhymes
(At http://www.lordsoftherhymes.com/)

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.

0440507448

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/)