Some of these make me really want to visit Japan with a girlfriend.

Love Hotels. Photos of rooms in Japanese “love hotels”, by photographer Misty Keasler. Some of the rooms are a bit creepy (I don’t know what’s up with the ‘toilet training toy’ in the first photo) but the Hello Kitty S&M room strikes me as a must-see attraction. Apparently a whole book of Keasler’s love hotel photos is also available from Amazon.

How DOES a company lose $6.6 billion?

Amaranth’s $6.6 Billion Slide Began With Trader’s Bid to Quit. Sometimes it’s best to just accept a resignation letter that comes across your desk.

I hear they’re also thinking about bringing back UF insulation and thalydomide for pregnant women!

Bush administration may again allow the sale of leaded gasoline. Apparently they’re going to justify the proposal on the grounds that lead particulates in the air have been reduced by 90%. Apparently if a clean-air initiative is proven to work, the White House is sure to actually drop it. I can’t think of anything wrong with this plan!

Worst. USB. Gadget. EVAR.

The humping dog USB drive. Give it to someone you hate this Christmas! Preferably by inserting it in a USB slot of their computer while they’re not looking.

From the ‘too stupid to print’ file: soy makes people sissies!

Soy turns boys gay, and shrinks their penises! That article is so devoid of sense it’s hard to tell exactly where the author completely loses his sanity. Published by the right-wingnuts’ own version of the poorly-Xeroxed radical newsletter, the WorldNetDaily, dubbed by myself and many others “the WMD” for their frequent intelligence lapses. This article is so completely brain dead I’m filing it as “bizarre”, “funny”, “scary” and “stupid” because I can’t decide which label fits best.

I’m sorry he couldn’t attent this party, but in a way he’s right here with us!

Woman gets 11 years for killing, cooking boyfriend and serving him to guests. She might also have a tough time getting anyone to come to her dinner parties once she has served her sentence!

Tony’s track of the day for December 11th 2006

Empire by Kasabian. A terrific video, with a great song to boot! In fact I really like this album.

You don’t even want to think about how that thing would feel on the way out.

New British-engineered pepper has nearly twice the heat of the hottest habanero on record. At 923,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) the Dorset Naga beats the world record holder Red Savina habenero (570,000SHU) hands-down. It’s so hot you literally can’t eat it, but if I can get my hands on one…

1 car, 40 years and 2.45 million miles.

Irv’s Volvo P1800 rolls for 40 years. Very impressive! They really don’t make cars like that anymore.

Going by this logic the next Nintendo product will be the Simulation Notation Ordering Table (SNOT)?

Nintendo poo added to Nintendo Wii. You just can’t make this sh*t up…