Diego Stocco - Experibass from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

In this iteration, Thanko continues the good fight with its wacky gadgets, scoring a grand-slam in the long war of breast-beautification.

How warming them up (or scalding them --40C?!?) is supposed to make them more beautiful, I don't know; but what the hell.

Perhaps there is a Japanese outdoor-laptop-expedition-shirt-equivalent to the January-scheduled No Pants Day by Improv Everywhere???

-> And they do it why? -Because they can.

No doubt the insane geniuses across the [other] pond have built up an entire sub-culture around electronic breast-warming already.

Arigato, Thanko; -Arigato!


Links:
Thanko USB Bust Warmer, via Engadget. Translated @ Babelfish and Google. Both are hilarious. G4TV - What's Up With Japan?

-Just Wow.

Spot-on analyses of the year's cavalcade of (frequently politician-dominated) buffoonery such as:

"As it becomes increasingly clear that the federal government's plan of giving hundreds of billions of dollars to dysfunctional companies has not fixed the problem, the government comes up with a bold new plan: Give more hundreds of billions of dollars to dysfunctional companies. Soon the government is in a bailout frenzy, handing out money left and right, at one point accidentally giving $14 billion to a man delivering a Domino's pizza to the Treasury building."

-are all up on Washington Post's website.

PS: "YOU ARE A CHICKEN....."

Awesome Dave! -Just Awesome!


Image: Screen Shot of WaPo, w/ corner of illustration by Richard Thompson

washingtonpost-Dave Barry's Year In Review

BUT NO-OO-OOOO!

That's -Not Cool- with the NYT!

There aren't yet enough suburban Society Wives clipping coupons or Hedge-Funders trading in mega-yachts. Things don't need to get better, they should get Worse!

*Coupled with a sense of timing that would make (the inventor of the guillotine)^(Marie Antoinette's cake comment) look less ironic, their Man Ezra Dyer [ed: and now Thomas L. Friedman] think that NOW is the time to introduce their bold idea to somehow save face for Al Gore.

=>As, cheap gas rankles him and his cronies.

So what's their brilliant*(awesomely bad) idea???

-Tax gas up to $4/gal no matter what the actual market rate is for it.

If that (and all the great unintended consequences) doesn't give you at least a tiny laugh, I don't know what will.

Because apparently, nobody owns cars and has to drive great distances; they all live in dense metro areas and can just hop on the electric-powered Subway to get wherever they need to go.

El Paso Texas?
-No problem. You can take the A, C, or E -just get on at 14th street.

Ely Montana?
That's not a problem either. You get on the #1,2 or 3 bus heading downtown, then hop onto the L at Union Square and finally get off at the stop just before Barcade.

SO: Go check out the full commentary on this idea over at one of the best car blogs out there:

TheTruthAboutCars-NYT: Tax Gas To $4 Min. ++ TheTruthAboutCars-NYT's Friedman: Tax is a Win^5