AP has the story:

WASHINGTON – Two former employees of a breast-implant manufacturer alleged the company covered up high rupture rates and workers were so fearful of bosses finding defective implant parts that they hid the parts in the ceiling.

They’re lying. The implants are fine. The workers are undercover artists are just putting their finishing touches on their exhibit, Random Avalanche of Boobs.

AP has an article on what happens to the the contestants from the time that they get booted to the air date of the final episode. Losers from The Apprentice get to stay in a

suite filled with food, beer, video games, DVDs and books

That sounds pretty cushy. Compare that to winning; having to tongue the taint of a megalomaniacal choad.

Gizmodo rumors that a handle-less Segway is in the works. I think we all know where this leads…

This video of a Citroen Transformer has been out for a while… dunno how I missed it… oh, yeah, I don’t live in Europe. Someone has now created a Bumblebee parody of it.

Someone scanned a book from 1952 called, How to Perform Strong Man Stunts. This is the kind of thing you could buy from the end pages of comic books. This throwback has the best intro:

One of the truest statements ever made is, “All the World Loves a Strong Man.” Every man, woman and child admires strength, and there is not a man who does not crave it. To be stronger than your friends is to be looked upon as a natural leader, and an invincible defender. Strength is the biggest hallmark of manhood. It demonstrates true he-man masculinity.

This guy has a fantastic audio clip of a recording he made of being harassed by, then harassing, a cold caller. Must hear.

Google Maps exposes some hooks so that web developers can integrate them into their applications. For instance, here’s one that displays housing classifieds from Craig’s List on a map. But Chicagocrime.org’s takes the cake. It maps where crimes take place in Chicago. You can filter by date, time, district, and type of crime. So if you want to know where to find a prostitute or a drug dealer, or more accurately, where they get arrested, just filter it.

This is a single sleeve that you wear that tells you that someone is text messaging you. It communicates with you by changing the pattern of pleats in the cloth. You then brush them a certain way to reply with, and I quote, “i call you back”. Yes, it’s stupid, but also might be dangerous. It looks remarkably similar to those more protective sleeves that are used to train attack dogs. There’s no mention on whether it comes with a rabies vaccine.