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10:30:38 PM  #  Oh yea! []

The phones don't stop. Trapped in a dead-end job at a customer-service call center, a man in his mid-30s hears the ringing and just doesn't care. [Salon.com]

The complaints of today's average worker.
8:34:06 PM  #  Oh yea! []

Tongue-mounted vibrators.

TongueJoy sells tongue-mounted mini-vibrators (which are, according to the FAQ, not sex toys), and accessories, including a kit for mounting them on your tongue piercing (the unpierced can use rubber bands) and an external "turbo pack."

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So, what are they used for, exactly?
8:27:17 PM  #  Oh yea! []

Major New TiVo Service Offerings [Slashdot]

droool. More TIVO goodness as we head into a more prevailent smart agent nichecasting market-based economy. Will this continual narrowcasting---hey, I hate it now when it's just me and the remote and no TIVO-surrogate---what will this mean for liberal arts thinking and the reniassance man?

Or will our view habits for most develop like mine have. That is, instead of a little of a lot, waiting for that new weekly episode, stringing me along soap opera style, I now (and I'm coining a new term here) 'dump watch.' By 'dump watching,' I see a whole series all in a row, every day, or with DVD's all at once. I just watched the whole run of Angel and am sampling Charmed from the beginning. The M (I'm using The S's naming system) just dump watched Alias. Now, with dump watching, I'm kind of waiting for a series to be cancelled so it can be syndicated. Hell, Sci-Fi channel will run series that only had 12 episodes (waiting to dump watch Firefly).

So, instead of the narrowcasting niche that TIVO does encourage, I'm finding I'm developing limited-time interests that accumulate to a liberal learning. 40's noir one week, japanese Sci-Fi the next, goldenboy indie flicks and dark comedies the next.

The TIVO searching feature, the smart agent, makes it happen.
8:18:35 PM  #  Oh yea! []

Laurie Anderson once had a song about she went to a psychic to find out her past lives and the psychic said she was hundreds and hundreds of Rabbis and before that she had a half-life as a feathered hat and before that she was a bird. Now, you can reincarnate you pet as a useful, if disgusting object, and give fluffy that half-life you've always wanted for them.

Taxidermy-cum-househould objects.

A Chilean artist specializes in turning taxidermied animals into household objects, "as a criticism of the way animals are treated by society."

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8:02:57 PM  #  Oh yea! []