Slave Girl Poochess Leia 

The Dark Side of Marketing

Darth Tater (Catch of the Day 1/19/05) was just the beginning. Now you can dress your Snarleyow as Star Wars Princess Leia. Comes with gold bikini, jumpsuit, and bun hairpiece; you supply the neck chain. There's no matching Jabba the Hut dog duds but in a possible Spaceballs allusion there is a matching pet Darth Vader outfit. StarWarsShop.com has other JarJarring geegaws like the Darth Vader Sprinkler and Death Star Giant Pez Dispenser.

Slave Leia Pet Costume

Almost like Fahrenheit 451.....
 

Virtual neighborhood watch, but no wristradios yet.....

Chicagocrime.org now offers free RSS feeds that contain the latest crimes for each police beat and each city block. Once a day chicagocrime.org downloads crimes from the Chicago Police Department's Citizen ICAM database. To use an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed you need a browser like Firefox, Opera or Safari, for Explorer or Netscape you need an RSS Feed Reader or News Aggregator. Confused check out the WhatIsRSS or BBC NEWS explanations. RSS rules!

Chicago crime database

What Is RSS? RSS Explained

BBC NEWS RSS Feed

Deadly Nail Clippers 

No Lighters Yet

Ever wonder what happened to the stuff the TSA confiscates at airports? Well, if you boarded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania it's on eBay. "Knives Swords Blades, Tools, Sewing items at low prices." I didn't see any swords today but there were up to 50 pound lots of assorted hand tools and hardware, scissors, nail clippers, kitchen utensils, and corkscrew bottle openers. And loads of pocket knives (Swiss Army, Victorinox, Wenger, et al). And why the camcorder?

eBay - NTSA

Plan 9 From Outer Space? 

Ask them to bring back Elvis...

Send an invitation to our coming Alien Overlords. TalkToAliens.com began
broadcasting in March. Phone in your message at $3.99 per minute and beam it (via FM frequency) into space. Their parabolic dish antenna in Connecticut is aimed at the Milky Way. Or you can e-mail up to a thousand words for $19.95. Either way you get a Certificate of Interstellar Broadcast.

TalkToAliens.com