This company makes industrial shredders. They operate on the same principle as office paper shredders, but they’re a lot bigger and stronger. The company seems to have a good understanding of marketing, because they have a nice looking website, but more importantly, they’ve posted videos of their shredders destroying everything from DVDs to steel drums to refrigerators to cars. Now I feel like boxing and eating steak.

PocketMod is a free online Flash app that prints a series of personal organizer templates to a single sheet of paper that you cut and fold into a multipage mini-book for your pocket. My assumption was that you would type in your appointments, contacts, to-do lists, or better yet, import data from a PIM like Outlook or Palm Desktop.

Not so. All it does is print out blank templates. You have to provide the data by pen. Still, it’s only in beta, so there’s hope.

I ride between four and six different trains every day. The quantity and variety of human excreta that coats the overhead handholds is something I try not think about too much. Crabby and I have come up with a euphemism, “transit hands”. This company takes it pretty seriously. They even have accessories.

A slingshot with a laser sight. Note the music when the page loads.

Quick – make your old Nintendo controller into a remote. Wait, too slow. Just see this guy’s here.

Microsoft spokesperson Ryan Hamlin:

says the New Zealand Government’s Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill is “too broad” and could impinge on “the amazing vehicle of e-mail marketing”.

He also wants definitions in the bill changed so that companies would be able to e-mail information about new products and services to customers, even if they had opted out of receiving e-mail about other services they had bought from the company in the past.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable. So for a company that sells more than one single product, the customer would have to opt out of spam for each one individually. They’ll also have to stay on their toes because the company might start selling something new.

A security robot attacked the Prime Minister of Japan. Koizumi wishes he purchased some Old Glory Insurance.

BTW – If the robot vomited on the Japanese PM, it would have passed the Turing Test.

Philips Electronics has put out a product called Bodygroom which is a shaver for men’s nethers. The flash ad (SFW) sells it well.

Note:
At work I did a Google Image search for “bodygroom” to get the above image but I forgot to add “philips”. The page it returned was a total sausagefest. Damnit! I’ll have to go clear our server’s cache.