It seems that the dog is some kind of iPod speaker or something like that, probably with TV reception in the land of the rising sun, but I would love to have a translation. Did Tarantino write the script or dialogue? Japan specialists, help me out!

Of course if you still live in a wired era and don’t have the luxury of having the daily newspaper delivered to your door… tough as the Doctor says.

Fear not!

Origami toilet paper. I.kid.you.not.

So let’s quickly analyse how to proceed in the little room now. You sit down, tear paper off and then fold it to shape. Then what?
I hope for you that you made a stingray or an elephant and not a swan or giraffe.

At $6 it’s rather expensive to wipe your bottom.

Contrarily to the chair, I actually do like the straw Clutch light.

Source: Scott Jarvie.

Chatting on Wave is like talking to an overcurious mind reader. On a conventional IM, you only see what other people say once they hit Enter. (True, the IM program will tell your partner whether or not you’re typing, but this is too little information to get embarrassed about.) On Wave, every misspelling, half-formed sentence, and ill-advised stab at sarcasm is transmitted instantly to the other person. This behavior is so corrosive to normal conversation that you’d think it was some kind of bug. In fact, it’s a feature—indeed, it’s one of the Wave team’s proudest accomplishments. When Google first unveiled Wave this spring, the program’s inventors hailed real-time typing as a way to mimic real-life conversations online. Because you can see what your chat partner is trying to say before she’s finished saying it, you can start replying immediately, making conversations much faster, Wave’s proponents argue. In practice, though, live typing either slows conversations to a crawl or renders them anodyne. Because you’ve got to second-guess every word you put down, you find yourself agonizing over the keyboard. (Farhad Manjoo for Slate)

More than anything else, the live chat feature did not restrict me but made me feel happy, happy because I had already lived the Wave. Back in our days live chatting was really popular. We called it ICQ.

So what did Amazon do? They bought Lexcycle, the developers of Stanza. I would expect that any time now, Amazon will come out with a new version of Kindle for the iPhone that will, in effect, be a rebranded version of Stanza. Some things do get through the cracks, however. Amazon now owns Lexcycle/Stanza, Stanza sells current books through Fictionwise. Fictionwise is owned by Barnes & Noble. I didn’t believe it either, but it’s true. Amazon is making money for B&N, at least for now

Via TUAW.

Jeremiah was caught after he, and a still on the run female accomplice, stole 2 surveillance cameras from a community center. When trying to loosen one of the cameras, the camera snapped a mugshot of Jeremiah when falling of its support. Romero confessed to steal the camera and a second one some days before. Cameras, said to be worth $2100 haven’t been found yet.

I went back to the kitchen after having dinner to get a drink and I just saw it straight away – the face of Jesus.

My mate saw it too when I showed him. It blew us both away so we took a picture.

I do not know what inspires one in the first place to look for things in the grease. Once the burger has been eaten, unless returned via the same hole it went in, chances to find something in the left-over grease are rather slim. We can only assume that Oliver and his mate were having good times.

I had it in my mouth, chewed it and nearly swallowed it,” said Sanz-Claus. He adds, “This is so disgusting, I’ve felt sick ever since.”

This diner says he rinsed his mouth with brandy then went to the bathroom to vomit. He says the hotel then called an ambulance. Sanz-Claus claims the doctor in the emergency room cut the object in half and confirmed it was a used tampon.

Sanz-Claus says he has not been able to sleep or eat since the episode.

I am surprised he was not charged extra.

Definitely Dept. of WTF material. We are proud present you the iSaw, a USB-powered chainsaw for nerds. $59.95 available for pre-order now. Go waste your money.

The study … looked at the academic achievement of siblings — one of whom was breast fed as an infant and one of whom was not — found that an additional month of breastfeeding was associated with an increase in high school GPA of 0.019 points and an increase in the probability of college attendance of 0.014.

Source: UPI.com.

Via Wonkette.

Yossi Altman said Koogle, a play on the names of a Jewish noodle pudding and the ubiquitous Google, appears to meet the standards of Orthodox rabbis, who restrict use of the Web to ensure followers avoid viewing sexually explicit material.

Source: Reuters.