Here’s an interesting little discussion going on at NetSlaves.com about Toxic Clients. You know the kind, they’re always right and you are always expected to give your services for free? Plus ca change…..

This Leisure Town site is simply awesome. Photoshopped images using bendy dolls, with a story attached to each one. A real labour of love. via Metafilter

Looking like a Gink – Part I You’re fed up with the flies at the picnic right? You just wanna get on with life and not be disturbed? So get your hands on one of these Impenetrable Bug Caps. Only $34.95. One size fits all. Or…or… Part II.. You’re hot too? You need cooling down fast? Well here’s the answer. Your very own personal air-conditioner, or as they call it Personal Cooling System. For $49.95, you get a small gizmo…

Ooo, Ooo. Walkie talkie watches. I want some I want some. 250 feet range for �30.00. Bargin!

The Behavioural Elements from Axios Corporation tries to provide an objective viewpoint of the characteristics and behaviour of human beings. It’s very well done, very professional and yet perhaps less than it seems. Maybe there’s more to being a human being than just a simple table of elements? [via Metafilter

Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘fancy coming round to my place for a dip?’ is the 65 meter Phoenix 1000 luxury submarine. Designed for those with a penchant for life at 300 meters depth and $78 million in the bank, this sumptuous sub-aquatic cruiser has got it all – including twin passenger decks, a mini sub and 2 x 1100 kW surface diesels capable of propelling the 1500 ton beast 3500 miles at a surface cruising speed…

If it wasn’t for the fact that April 1st had passed already, I would be very suspicious of this story. Headline? Professor hopes to have working time machine by the end of the year. Yes, that was my reaction too. Interesting article [via madville.com]

The PDA screen that talks to you? Matsushita of Japan has apparently come up with a speaker that can be attached to glass and works by vibrating a transparent film with air pressure The company hopes to sell it to PDA and mobile phone makers who will attach the ‘Sound Window’ film to their displays to provide speaker capabilities at low power consumption. [via Asia BizTech]

Every so often a Web application comes along which is just right from the get-go. Well the latest one is Oddpost. It’s an online email service – no wait ,come back – it’s an online email program with a difference. It looks and functions just like MS Outlook Express. No more kludgy Hotmail like tabs and constantly refreshing Web pages, no more fiddling around with different sections of your Web based email. This is more than cool, it’s WAY cool….

Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame has been facing a lot of unwarranted flack recently and he doesn’t deserve it. He does a lot for the subscribers to his free Lockergnome newsletter, and really shouldn’t be attacked simply for trying to make some money out of his countless online ventures. I don’t actually know a harder worker – some would say workaholic – who does so much for nothing, which makes his detractors a little ungrateful perhaps?

Just found this neat implementation of Kazaa, called Kazaa Lite. Apparently offers all the benefits (read 1+ million users) of the Fastrack network and Kazaa client without the spyware or whatever. Check it out here.

Make it so! The Voice Me Infrared Butler is a small $60.00 gizmo which apparently converts voice commands into infrared remote control instructions. The idea is that you program in up to 30 voice commands (e.g. “TV on”), then train the relevant remote controllers and when you say the words, the Butler will send out the appropriate remote control beam to turn on the TV or whatever. The blurb says that the unit can be voice activated from 5m away…

Is this the most useless Web site in the world?

Now that The Sims – with sales of 6.3 million – has officially overtaken Myst to become the most popular commercially retailed computer game of all time (I believe that Freecell is actually the most popular game per se), there are all sorts of articles being written about the future of the genre. This one at CNN Money is a good example, citing as it does the imminent release of Sims Online – a massively multiplayer version of the game…

Ooh ever so naughty, but I love it. The Engrish site provides an hilarious look at some of the weaker Japanese attempts to master the complexities of the English language. Too funny! All your base are….ah fergedaboutit! [via ZZZ]