Have you ever been too drunk to find your shot glass? Well, neither have I, but I have always wanted a shot glass that lights up when you put it down (pun slightly unintended). The glasses are available through Envious Products for as little as $8.00 each (if you buy a 4-pack) and as far as I can tell come in both blue and red varieties. Getting lit should be a lot easier now.

Bill Simmons breaks from humble beginnings (writing his own Boston sports blog) to a slightly less humble existence with his first book, “Now I Can Die in Peace : How ESPN’s Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox“–a collection of previously published articles following the evolution of the 2004 championship Red Sox team. While the book was a good reminder of the most amazing sporting event in my life time, many people outside of Simmons’ world will probably have difficulty getting through this book. Read on for a full review >

“Now I Can Die in Peace” is a 351-page “clip show” book containing the best Bill Simmons had to offer from October 1998 to April 2005. If you factor into this the 500 footnotes, it reads more like a 1000-pager. Simmons loves to add anecdotes throughout that shed further light on various passages in the book. His columns typically do the same thing, but are included within the rest of the text making them much easier to read.

Ignoring the notation issues, Simmons manages to capture the reader’s attention and gives a great overview of how the Red Sox captured their first title in 85 years. His columns from the time were impressively insightful and invoked several “I can’t believe he knew that” moments. If you’ve read him in the past you’ll likely recognize many of the columns, but they are worth checking out again now that you know the eventual outcome.

All in all, “Now I Can Die in Peace” is a good, solid read for any baseball fan. Even if you despise the Red Sox (how could you?), Simmons’ witty humor will get you through the pages with a smile (he did write for the Jimmy Kimmel show). And if you already love the Sox, this book will fit nicely in your mural to Big Papi.

Good for the office, dinner table or the Manroom, this light weight remote controled plane can occupy you for hours without destroying your house. The toy will be available in Japan in April for about $22.

Imagine if you will, a world where your refrigerator can open and pour beer for you. Now move to Japan and drink a ton of Asahi beer and your dream might just come through. In a promotion that dwarfs any American brewery’s crappy promotional attempts, Asahi Breweries is giving away 5000 mini fridge, beer-pouring robots.

This little bugger better show up on eBay soon, because no man should have to pour his own beer when a robot could do it for him.

Even if you don’t know what a booth babe is, you already thinking that banning them from anything is a bad idea. Booth babes are the video game equivalent to car show models–they prance around the show floor, clad in bikinis and provocative outfits and generally make the normally boring show floor MUCH more enjoyable.

E3, the largest video game expo in the world has decided to tighten their rules regarding booth babes in 2006 stating, “Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicit and/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity, partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the show floor…” Keep in mind that children are not allowed at this conference and you quickly see how ridiculous a “no bikini bottom” rule really is.

This is just another example of ridiculous right-wing fanatics censoring the entertainment of consenting adults. Video games, television, radio and now conferences are all susceptible to conservative wrath and that’s sad.

Milwaukee’s Best (yah… the beer) is giving away 6-$10,000 buy-ins (plus round-trip accommodations to Vegas for 2) to the World Series of Poker. All you need to do is login every day and play poker fairly well against a bunch of people that drink Milwaukee’s Best. How hard could that be.

Second place is a premium clay composite 300 chip poker set… not bad for being a loser.

Most men would laugh at the idea of aroma therapy, but AbioGenesis wants you to rethink that. They have developed an alarm clock that can emit any number of scents. Imagine waking up to the smell of bacon, baseball franks or strippers. The alarm clocks of today wouldn’t stand a chance. Can you bottle stripper scent?

Are you too lazy to play fetch with your dog? Have you lost motor control in your elbow? Are you too fat to get up and open a box of treats? If you answered yes to any of the questions, you need help and the SnackShotz Treat Launcher is here to help. The gun-shaped device shoots specially designed treats across a room that your dog will, in theory, go fetch.

Pretty simple concept, but what’s up with the scary alien-like gloved hand holding the gun in this promo image? Who are they marketing this to? Huge Mork and Mindy fans?

Normally, beer and ice cream only go together if you’ve had too much of either and you’re not thinking clearly. This recipe for Guinness ice cream is sure to change things.

Break out your ice cream maker and create the ultimate Irish treat. Although it may just be easier to create an Irish Car Bomb–the traditional Irish desert.

Remember the days of unlimited and free access to what seemed like mountains of music on Napster? Well those days have returned. Radio.Blog.Club is a user-driven, Flash-based online community that gives you access to thousands of songs.

The way it works is website owners add the Radio.Blog software to their site, upload music to their server and Radio.Blog.Club searches all of the music for you.

What all this means is that as the network grows, you will have access to even more free music. Is it legal? I have no idea, but you should definitely take advantage of it while you can.