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Archive for March, 2006

Golf Bag From the Future

Friday, March 31st, 2006

If your golf bag is dated it may be time to step up to a Kaala Golf Bag. The bag comes in several colors and can be personalized with an aluminum engraving of your name. A water and damage resistant cover removes the need for an additional travel bag and protects your clubs from the elements at all times. And for those extra-lazy golfers out there, you can even opt for a motorized version to tote your clubs around with very little effort on your part.

But the coolest feature by far is the built-in club organizer. A click wheel at the top of the bag rotates easily until you find the club you need, open the door and whamo!, there’s your desired club.

All of this golfy goodness doesn’t come cheap. The basic bag starts at $425 and the motorized version tops out at $860, a drop in the hat for the serious golfer.

Hot, Hot Tub Action

Friday, March 31st, 2006

If Richard Branson (crazy Virgin Atlantic billionaire) in a hot tub with 3 naked women (SFW) can’t sell you a home loan, no one can. (Just click the play arrow in the lower left corner)

If it weren’t for the URL at the end of the spot, I would have had no idea what this commercial was about. Go Australia!

Self-Cooling Beer Can

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

What do you get the guy that has everything? 3 strippers. What do you get the warm beer that has everything? The Instant Cool Can.

Who needs a kegerator when you can buy beer cans that cool themselves? I wonder what the deposit will be on these cans?

66% of NCAA Tournament Watchers are Dumb

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Of the 3 million bracket entries on ESPN.com’s Tournament Challenge, just 4 have the entire final four field set correctly. 66% of entries have no teams left in the tourney (including mine). I don’t know what this means, but one thing is for sure, Vegas is sweating over those 284 people that predicted George Mason to win at the beginning of the tournament considering they were 500-1 long shots.

Urinal Games

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

If you can’t admit to pretending the urinal cake at the bottom of a toilet was an evil alien trying to eat your man-bits and the only thing that would stop him was your radioactive urine then you obviously have never overdosed on horse tranquilizers. At any rate, designer Marcel Neundörfer is on target with his latest idea, On Target. Compete against your friends, get the highest score and kill that bastard urinal cake all while emptying the bladder.

Practical reasons for the games include less “misses” and lower cleaning costs, blah, blah blah. Now you’ll have a reason to not break the seal… Asteroids.

Healthy Bacon

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Biotech scientists have discovered a way to produce pork with high levels of “omega-3″ (”The American Heart Association recommends at least two weekly servings of fish, particularly fatty fish like trout and salmon, which are naturally high in omega-3s”) by splicing the DNA of a pig and a microscopic roundworm.

If the procedure is a commercial success, bacon, beef and most fatty-meats could become more healthy to eat. Ah… science.

A Second Chance at Life

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

A lot of people are unhappy with their current situations and turn to the Internet to create a new one, often times, as someone completely different than themselves. As people turn to chat rooms, personal ads or online gaming the line between reality and the Internet become increasingly blurry.

I decided recently to take a trip into the seedy underbelly of this phenomenon and quickly realized how easily one can fall to the vices of an online community.

For this experiment, I decided to check out Second Life (mostly because it was free), an online “game” where the objective is to buy land and build things on it. The developers behind the game simply give users the tools to create and alter the game world into anything they want. There are no missions, bad guys or objectives, just a seemingly endless world to shape and mold.

Entering the game simply required a quick download and a free user account. As soon as you boot Second Life up, you’re immediately “playing” the game. Your first task is creating your in game person or avatar. Most people create avatars in the likeness of the person they wish they were, I went with the person I think I am on the inside–a 7′ bald, green-skinned, red-eyed, freckled-freak (yes, that’s me, or should I say Lucifer, dancing with the ladies above).

Once you’ve decided what your avatar should look like, you’re on your own to explore the massive world of Second Life. Just like the real world, you can expect to find the good and bad of society. Clubs, casinos, shops, restaurants, battle domes, etc are littered through out and Lucifer was seriously overwhelmed when he first entered the world. He flew around (literally, the only way to travel) for a while, not really “Getting it” until he wandered into a shop with a nice girl in it. They got to talking and she told him that he really needed to buy some land. Unfortunately, the game started Lucifer out with just $250 Linden bucks which isn’t nearly enough for his own place so he decided he would his luck at the casinos.

After blowing through $50 in a few seconds on slot machines, Lucifer thought he would be better off hitting the roulette table. After blowing through another $180 he started to realise that his second life was no better than my real-life.

After flying around for a while and stealing (I think) a car, Lucifer found another nice person. Half-human, half-fox-thing (and glowing), he asked how to make money in this world. Dismissing the selling of goods because you need land, Fox-guy also told Lucifer that some places actually paid you to dance! “Hell”, Lucifer thought, “I can dance with the best of them” and took off for the club.

Lucifer found a great place to dance that payed $1 for every 5 minutes of dancing. I got bored quick and thought I could go do some real-life tasks while Lucifer scored some much needed cash. I came back an hour later and he had managed to earn just $12 while dancing his little green heart out. I decided that Lucifer wasn’t cut out for this line of work and moved on.

Unfortunately, my avatar disagreed and kept on dancing and somehow ended up with some roulette chips on his head. Completely lost and a victim of an obvious game glitch I had no idea what to do. Lucifer wouldn’t stop dancing and those chips were plastered to his head no matter how much he shook it. After searching for a bit, I found an area for “newbies” (new dumb-ass players like myself) and some friendly veterans were able to cure Lucifer’s dancing shoes and remove the unlucky chips from his head.

All in all, my experience with Second Life wasn’t all bad and I’m intrigued enough to give it some more time. There’s a lot I haven’t seen and the people are pretty friendly for the most part (sort of like going to Toronto). Hopefully, I’ll be removing chips from some other poor shmoe’s head before long.

Foreman Who?

Friday, March 24th, 2006

George Foreman may have finally met his match (well if you don’t count Ali in 1974). The Breville Indoor Grill seems to KO Foreman’s sorry excuse for a grill in every detail. With 368 square inches of grill surface and a 350°F to 450°F temperature range, the Breville is a viable alternative to a real grill for those of us that can’t grill outdoors year-round.

The price ($179) is a bit more than you’re used to, but may be well worth it if you’ve found the Foremans inadequate in the past.

Hi-Tech Vegas

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

As if you didn’t have enough reasons to gamble, Vegas is currently developing the “future” of gaming technology. Whether it’s a coin free slot room or digital black-jack dealers, casinos are trying to come up with ideas that will keep your mind off the money you are losing.

The new Wynn Casino in Atlantic City is pushing the limits of hi-tech gaming as well as hi-tech living (while gambling). Menus to your mobile device and HD wedding videos will soon be the norm in Vegas as well. Check out this BBC article for more info.

Primer: Surf Porn Safely

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

The Internet exists for one purpose and one purpose alone: research. And by research I mean porn. Surfing porn can be a scary proposition for any man due to popups, spyware and other evil things and most wish they could find naked ladies without these nuisances.

The ladies over at Tiny Nibbles (nsfw) have made it slightly safer for you to browse smut online. Tips range from “Don’t use IE” to “install a strong pop-up blocker.” If you surf the Internet for dirty images (and I know you do) this is a great place to start.


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