It’s a 30 inch by 12 inch wheel with 20 different compartments, each one closed off by a series of elastic bands. It can hold up to 30 pairs, depending on size. You insert your shoes in each compartment

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/01/15/the-rakku-a-rolodex-for-your-shoes/

Furry blitzkrieg?
Hundreds of thousands have fanned out to Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and France. The news caught the ire of Britain’s Sun tabloid, which warned its readers that “Nazi raccoons” were “just across the Channel” and “on the warpath … in a furry blitzkrieg”.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1390574,00.html

Meth Coffee, a rebel coffee company in San Francisco, opened for business today with the launch of its hard- hitting coffee roast for energy addicts and caffeine freaks. Meth’s super- caffeinated beans are amplified by the addition of yerba mate, a powerful natural stimulant and antioxidant used by shamans of the Amazon for boosting stamina and mental clarity. Boasting an intense buzz and cocoa-tobacco finish, Meth Coffee is fresh-roasted within 48 hours of shipment to jumpstart workaholics, thrill seekers, artists, and subversives seeking an exciting new fuel for their endeavors.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070110/sfw043.html?.v=92

If you ever read Dune (better yet The Butlerian Jihad) you might already know what this is – if you didn’t then read on. The GloGlobe was a device that could be tuned to any color in the visible spectrum and created it’s own suspensor field which provided the user with soft interior lighting that didn’t need to be physically mounted anywhere (because it just floated wherever you put it). My GloGlobe unfortunately doesn’t levitate and that is beyond the scope of this project so it never will levitate I’m afraid.

http://www.tearsoffire.org/twiki/bin/view/Projects/PicGloGlobe

an anonymous BB reader says, “Nothing says holiday cheer like a chihuahua with a rifle.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/24/weird_1895_christmas.html

In this month’s issue of “Arthur Magazine,” comics writer Alan Moore has authored a 12,000 word essay on 25,000 years of pornography, profusely illustrated with appropriately bawdy imagery.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9157

We’ve got hundreds. (And we’re updating regularly, so bookmark this page for its Christmas Tube link.)

http://weblogs.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/blog/2006/11/christmas_tube_series_episodes.html

In similar circumstances, others might have seen a doctor immediately. But Castro slept overnight on his predicament and woke to launch himself on a course that guaranteed his private horror would spiral into a humiliating public spectacle.

http://ocweekly.com/news/news/bum-luck/26253/

Jet fought many foes, but contracted a lethal disease fighting a horrifically conceived and named “AIDS Vampire” named the “Hemo-Goblin”.’ …That entry can’t be right, can it? Nobody could see ‘Hemo-Goblin the AIDS Vampire’ on a script proposal and say, ‘Okay, run with that!’, right?”

“I think that if I was on a super team and they said we were off to fight an AIDS vampire called the Hemo-goblin I’d sit that one out. Say my powers were acting up.”

http://blog.newsarama.com/2006/12/05/new-doesnt-necessarily-mean-good-after-all/

Banana Phone

Price: $10

Yesteryear we would’ve recommended a straight-up banana phone, but this is good too. (‘Course, you could go this route. Piercing is extra $$$)

http://www.core77.com/ultimategiftguide/

In real life, Dodge Automobiles forked over $1 million to have their name on the front [see inset.] What’s next? A Hayabusa for Ghost Rider? Bruce Wayne in a Lamborghini?

http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2006/dec/01look.htm

http://www.nike.com/nikegolf/juiceball/index.html

According to one of our readers (WS), this .17 caliber mini-Browning is the world’s smallest machine gun.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/worlds-smallest-machine-gun

“In the Womb: Animals” is an unprecedented two-hour world premiere special that takes you inside the hidden world of animal pregnancy. Using state-of-the-art visual effects, computer graphics and real-time, moving 4-D ultrasound imagery, we can see inside the unique world of animal fetal development in a way never before possible.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/inthewombanimals/synopsis.html

Michael Richards, aka “Kramer” from “Seinfeld,” is in hot water for spewing several racial slurs onstage at The Laugh Factory over the weekend.

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=”1&pmmsid=1772645

update: 

Jerry Seinfeld made a response, and both he and Michael Richards will be on Letterman tonight.

To keep with spirit of the season I made this USB-Powered Apple. It is really quite a simple device. It vibrates when a person grabs for it and does not vibrate when a person does not. Unlike your family, this apple is predictable and may relieve stress.

http://www.instructables.com/id/EYI73ZDH44EUOJJKP8/?ALLSTEPS

Other newly-fashionable choices include Snoop, after the US rap star, who may end up hanging out with Reebok and Adidas, said the survey of what parents are choosing to call their offspring.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061117/lf_afp/afplifestylebritain_061117111622

…we’ve just gotten word that a dentist in Columbus, Ohio leveraged some of those cavity-filling profits to hire an unbelievable 60 temp workers to stand in line at four area Wal-Marts. Although not a videogame fan himself, Dr. Murry Newlin wanted to spread the Christmas cheer to his grandchildren, nieces, and nephews by picking up 15 of the next-gen consoles…

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/16/easiest-job-ever-dentist-hires-60-temps-to-wait-in-ps3-lines/

3. No seat sharing. When girls sit on the arm of my chair or in my lap or next to me in a one-person seat, it makes me think that she wants some sexing. A possible exception is fitting an extra person in a car that is filled to capacity. I can’t let my passion hurt the quest to maximize a designated driver, but be warned; it might not be the seat belt poking you.

http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/guidelines_for_platonic_friendship

“I think I’m a pretty funny guy. I have a wacked sense of humor,” writes Randy Halprin, who was convicted in the 2000 shooting death of an Irving police officer. “I can be a big kid at heart. I’m a hopeless (and I mean HOPELESS) romatic (sic).”

http://ap.amarillonet.com/pstories/state/tx/20061111/119476101.shtml