Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Daily Archive
News17 Oct 2006 11:00 am by nic
Teenage Red Bra-gate – OMG, News Saga of the Year

When you combine playful teenage girls, fast cars, a misbehaving dog, underwear in flight and red-faced, lecherous men, you get the special kind of news that makes impending nuclear Armageddon seem boring and insignificant.
We’ll give you this list of actual headlines as a teaser of what to expect…
Injured pair see red as flying bra triggers rollover accident on I-75
Prosecutor mulls charges in crash tied to flying bra
Dog gnawed on bra that led to crash, teen tells troopers
Injured driver sues over crash tied to flying bra
The rest you’ll have to discover for yourself…
Case of the flying bra [Toledo Blade via Reuters]
News17 Oct 2006 10:57 am by nic
Flashy Japanese LED Watch is Tiny, Unfit for Epileptics
While gadgets aren’t always our thing, we’re watch tragics. And the Retsu by Saishin, despite being a simple gadget, looks like a very cute watch.
Weighing in at 40g and only 8mm thin, it’s tiny, but the time telling mechanism is fascinating, and simpler than you’d think. Green LEDs dance up the face of the watch and, well, you can see how it works in the image.
Clever, but possibly not incredibly practical. If the time was 23:59, you could be staring at the thing for a few seconds before you got the whole story.
But despite lacking the no nonsense retro HH:MM reading of the classic 70’s LED watch, it’s still easier to read than many of its experimental LED contemporaries.
Retsu by Saishin the smallest LED wristwatch [New Launches]
News17 Oct 2006 10:54 am by nic
Transylvanian Vampire Wines Fit for a Count
With Halloween approaching (in some parts of the world), we’ll let you waste time selecting your costume, while we select your wine (and we’ll keep it cheap, so you can waste money on that stupid costume, too).
The people of Transylvania are as famous, apparently, for their winemaking as they are infamous for, you know, all that Dracula crap. And Vampire Wines’ 2004 Pinot Grigio and 2003 Pinot Noir, according to the Toronto Star, are “bloody good” (arf) for the C$11 they’ll set you back.
Halloween – dress like an idiot, drink like a budget-conscious Romanian.
Good Scotch, great Scotch and Count Dracula’s wine cellar [Toronto Star via Cheap Fun Wines]