Am I the only one who’s cynical about the rich and famous being given breaks that the rest of us would never have a hope of? On the plus side, she does get a fashion accessory that few other Hollywood stars can boast of: an electronic ankle bracelet to let police track her whereabouts during …
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On the subject of interesting (and dangerous) sports…
Perfumier concocts Paris Hilton chokey scent. About as tasteful as the aforementioned game.
It isn’t often that I can combine my love of computer technology with GoddessJ’s enjoyment of pop-culture icons and what is going on in their lives. This game manages it, though it still fails to get a good-taste rating.
Do-It-Yourself infrared scanners that can see through clothing, and underwear designed to block it, possibly by “chilling your nether regions”? Is this really a problem, even in Japan?
Last one for today, I promise. I received a major treat for my fifteenth birthday: my mother took my family and a couple of my friends to a new place in town called Chuck E. Cheese’s, a pizza joint with video games galore. Because it was a birthday party, our pizzas were brought out by …
Here’s one that no SF author ever thought of: pants that prevent flatulence from smelling. In retrospect, it’s so obvious that you can’t help but wonder how anyone missed it. I expect I’ll get a year’s supply of these as a Christmas present from GoddessJ.
Another technology from lots of different science fiction stories, vat-grown synthi-meat has finally put in an appearance! Forget green eggs and ham. Here comes green ham and eggs! 😉
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
This is the kind of stuff that I love to find! Technologies that are currently found only in science fiction, such as interstellar travel, all rely on a number of unspoken assumptions… for instance, that the people traveling that way have some way of eating during the trip. (Even if they make the trip in …
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