From the "please kill me" files:
a plush bed for one's cellphone:
Perfect for your cellphones or small-sized portable media players. Plus, those adorable slippers are actually screen wipers!
Speaking of cellphones, while I was in Boston this week, I read the new Stephen King book,
Cell. I liked the premise: some sort of mysterious "pulse" turns everyone who is talking on a cellphone into a violent, homicidal zombie (hmm...not sure how one can tell)--I'm not giving anything away, since this happens on the first page. Like most of King's books, the story is pretty gripping, but with his usual unpleasant characters (who are less unpleasant than usual this time around, though) and some really bad dialogue. The ending, like many of King's endings, is also woefully anticlimactic. Without really giving anything away, it seems he based the "science" of what happens on the mistaken notion that humans use only 10% of their brains, which is one of the more persistent "urban legends" out there (we use most of our brains, although it doesn't always seem like it).
Speaking of cellphones, while I was in Boston this week, I read the new Stephen King book, Cell. I liked the premise: some sort of mysterious "pulse" turns everyone who is talking on a cellphone into a violent, homicidal zombie (hmm...not sure how one can tell)--I'm not giving anything away, since this happens on the first page. Like most of King's books, the story is pretty gripping, but with his usual unpleasant characters (who are less unpleasant than usual this time around, though) and some really bad dialogue. The ending, like many of King's endings, is also woefully anticlimactic. Without really giving anything away, it seems he based the "science" of what happens on the mistaken notion that humans use only 10% of their brains, which is one of the more persistent "urban legends" out there (we use most of our brains, although it doesn't always seem like it).
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