These macabre suicide bath plugs are shaped like little men, chained to your bath-plug and float upside-down with the plug chain around their necks.

Who is their target market?

Do Ho Suh is a Korean artist who recreated his entire childhood home in full-scale, including fixtures and furniture, out of semi-transparent fabric. The whole thing can be packed away in large suitcase.

If you build it they will come. Hot on the heels of the video iPod release comes a new site called POVpod (definitely NSFW). It delivers point-of-view porn movies to play on your video iPod. Their instructions are simple:

• Step 1 Download our Videos to your iPod through itunes 6
• Step 2 Hold iPod at crotch level
• Step 3 Watch our point-of-view (POV) video and feel like you’re there!

I’m counting the days until I see someone on the T with this.

From Slashdot:
A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. “We’ve found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,” said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.

Story here.

From Gizmodo:

It seems as though the European electronics job market is a little weak. Mike Minton, an electronics engineer turned entrepreneur has made a nice little invention to assist him in creating toast soldiers. What the hell is a toast soldier you ask? It’s okay I had to research it too, a toast soldier is a slab of toast that is dunked into a soft-boiled egg. Minton was sick of the time consuming process of manually cutting the toast. Minton’s perfect soldier cutter cuts each piece of toast into 22mm even width strips of toasted goodness. Look for Sony’s knock-off ToastMan with proprietary ToastItUpGood technology.

Sadly, this is the most significant culinary contribution to the world that England has made since they first let foreign nationals open their own restaurants.

Kinda clever. Here’s a model train enthusiast who’s worth mentioning. Instead of building the typical bucolic settings that other hobbyists strive to achieve, this guy makes miniature slum-scenes for his trains to roll through, replete with liquor stores, blowing trash and graffiti.

1up gave a glowing review to a game that will be released this week for XBox, called Stubbs the Zombie in “Rebel without a Pulse”. It uses the Halo engine and some of Stubbs’ developers also worked on Halo. It’s said to have lots of gore balanced by a good amount of humor, and it’s set against the backdrop of the idyllic American 1950s. The perspective sounds intereseting, while not entirely new (MediEvil on PS1). You control a zombie instead of the usual zombie hunter, and your arsenal consists of parts of your body that you can detach and throw at people. And it features split-screen Co-op (got that Crabby?). People are already claiming that this will be the best game of the year that no one played (like the awesome sleeper Beyond Good & Evil).

FWIW, geeks seem to have a special affinity for zombies. Sure zombies eat human brains, and, yes, they’re ugly and undead. But I’ve never understood the fascination. I’ve often felt that zombie games put their theme first and gameplay second. That can be OK if the theme is great and the gameplay doesn’t suck (ex. Black & White, Psychonauts). But zombies alone is not a sufficiently compelling theme. So I’ve avoided them with the thought that they typically relied on their theme which, to me, sucked.