Month: January 2008

The Love Mattress

I mentioned a while back an xkcd comic for a great mattress for couples. Looks like somebody’s gone and created the concept for something similar:

This version doesn’t have the Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots like the xkcd version does, which I believe is a requirement for this thing to go to market.

Link via BB.

Real Life Tetris

Playing Tetris with humans would be far more entertaining than the video game:

Wouldn’t Be My Weapon Of Choice

If I was going to rob a market, I’d arm myself with something a bit more powerful than a Sharpie.

Attention Business Travelers

Starting yesterday, spare lithium batteries are banned from checked airline luggage. However, it’s not the end of the world.

If We Could Only Be So Lucky

Microsoft is planning on discontinuing Internet Explorer.

Update on 1/16: Welcome BBSpot Mailbag readers! Feel free to check out the front page of the site for more time-wasters.

Ladies, Listen Up

Here are 50 things us men really wish you knew. A few of my favorites:

8. No question need ever be asked through a closed bathroom door if I’m inside. I love you less with each syllable you utter.

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29. When you call us at work “just to chat,” we’re not really listening; we’re checking our e-mail.

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41. Do not expect to have a conversation via text message (Jake Note: Or IM) unless you use the words “naked” and “waiting.”

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43. Anytime you cook for us, we’re happy.

Headline I Thought I’d Never See

Search ended for Michigan man lost in Hawaii blizzard.” Yes, you read that right. Link via Fark.

Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong With This

Taser International is creating a Taser gun that can disable someone up to 98 feet away (up from their current 25 feet). Full story.