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Japanese Waffle Ice Cream Bar

This is wonderful. How I didn't discover it until now is beyond me.

My spoon is too big. I am a banana.

I'm sorry but we're out of the beef.

Airlinemeals.net is a really great site.

Antec P180

This is the literally the coolest case ever.

13 Tzameti

13 Tzameti is one great snooty, pretentious, award winning, noir, black/white, French film about Russian roulette.

Who do I think I am? Andy Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes?... well maybe.

Ever notice that customer reviews at online retail stores are almost always favorable to the item in question? A few weeks ago, I bought two spindles of 15 Fujifilm dual layer dvds on sale for 60% of the regular price. When I went about trying to burn them, my DVD drive spat the disks out saying that they were incompatible. I did a little Googling on the DVD-Rs in question and saw that multiple forums had noted that the discs were highly incompatible with the majority of dual layer dvd-/+r drives out there. As I am in Canada (where stores seem to have a bigger fetish with returns than sales), I had no trouble returning the discs so that's not where I'm going with this. Being the good Samaritan that I am, when I returned home from returning the said items I submit user comments for the product on Futureshop's site warning people of the media's low compatibility. It's been a month and my comments are still not posted.

I just did Futureshop customers another favor by submitting comments on an external hard drive that has been known to fail after several months of use. Whether my comment is added to Futureshop's collection of glowing reviews remains to be seen.

There's a pattern emerging here. Sales are often a way to get rid of bad products just like the daily special at your favorite restaurant is just a ploy to use ingredients that will soon expire. This is no brilliantly original epiphany on my part. It's just something we often overlook in our quest to find a good deal.

[sigh]

OMFG it's a pickle!

It's sad that I've been taking content off of boingboing so often, but this is good. As a child, I recall having a fear of plants (botanophobia). I was also terrified of Big Bird (of Sesame Street fame not large birds), but there's no word for that.

Best aerobics/kareoke/english lesson video ever!

..and you thought video games were expensive.

As much as I appreciate a finely crafted toy, the price tag on this is as astonishing as it is ridiculous. If this were on The Price is Right, I would be wrong.

I got a treadmill.

An unfinished painting.

I did this six years ago in high school. I graduated before I could finish it. When I get my own apartment again, I'll finish it and hang it up in the bathroom. If only I could find that tiny source photo that I cut out of an old National Geographic.

Geez. Good job ruining a good game hacker guy. With that attitude, you'll never have skills like this guy.

Cab driver mistaken for online paper news editor.

So that's what they mean by shared bathrooms.

"The bathroom that we had in our room felt haunted. There were chills felt by a few people in our group with feelings that something was there. Perhaps it is the positioning of the mirrors in the bathroom. But the feeling is uneased. I have stayed at many hotels around the world and this is the first one that we have ran into like this. We will never stay at this place every again even if it is FREE." - AYahoo!User

Yikes! Tiny rooms, no AC, AND shared/haunted bathrooms! It's probably just that particular bathroom, but maybe I should cancel and book elsewhere.

I miss talking to Dr. Sbaitso. He came bundled with my Creative Labs Sound Blaster pc sound card in the early 90's. Shrinks do exactly the same thing for a lot more money.

Something to check out in SF

Who knew Steven Seagal had a band. If he's as good at singing as he is at being an action hero and designing knives, he is a truely talented man and this should be a good time. If this carrer path works out for him, it would give other fading stars like Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren (He-Man The Movie) inspiration to do the same. Idealy, the end result would be them teaming up and releasing an album as a foursome with a hit single titled "We used be action stars" featuring rap interludes by DMX (who previously worked with Seagal on a hit movie). They wouldn't be able to call themselves "Seagal, Norris, Van Damme, and Lundgren" though since the name doesn't have a ring to it like "Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young".

This is a great little free countdown clock app.

These are some pretty amazing examples of the Rube Goldberg effect (each followed by a jingle of some sort that gets progressively more annoying after every listen).

In other news, Food Jammers has to be the best cooking show on Canadian TV.