Still waiting on your SkyCar? Why not get a personal tank to pass the time? Amazon has listed, the JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank, or The Donk for short. For $19,999 you can drive your own tank into battle.

• Carries cargo or a crew of up to five internally or on the roof.
• Piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch.
• 6hp Tecumseh gasoline engine, top speed 40 mph.
• Includes head/tail and turn signal lights, trim and underbody lighting.
• 400 watt premium sound with PA system, plush interior, and external camera.

For a good laugh, try reading the reviews of this thing.

I’ll admit it. Shopping for a personal tank can be a bit daunting. Many times in the past I’ve purchased overpriced, so-called “battle tanks”, then driven them into battle only to be wrecked in ten minutes by the first blow off of some insurgents home-made morter.

MacDailyNews is reporting that Levi Strauss is debuting their iPod compatible jeans. Have iPod accessories gone to far?

Design features include:
• Easy Pocket Storage — An iPod docking cradle is built into the jeans and is “invisibly” housed within a side pocket. The Levi’s design team took special care to ensure the iPod unit remains neatly and securely stored in the jean, while the iPod “bump” in the pocket is virtually eliminated. The cradle is equipped with sophisticated technology housed in a red conductive ribbon that allows users to quickly and easily remove their iPod from the pocket to view its screen while staying connected. The jean is machine washable once the iPod is removed.
• “Hip” Controls — A special joystick remote control is externally designed into the jeans’ watch pocket to enable operation of the iPod. Four-way controls allow the wearer to easily play/pause, track forward, track back and adjust the volume control without ever removing the iPod from the pocket.
• Handy Wire Retractor — A handy retractable headphone unit has been built directly into the jean to help prevent tangles and efficiently manage the iPod earphone wires.

Before you upgrade your jeans however, jump over and update your iTunes to 6.02 and the iPod (with video) to 1.1.

New features in iTunes.

• MiniStore New in iTunes 6.

  Discover new music as you enjoy your collection or import new CDs with MiniStore — right from your iTunes library.

• Sync Home Movies New in iTunes 6.

  Create iPod-compatible versions of your own movies using iTunes.

• AirTunes Enhancement New in iTunes 6.

  Simultaneously stream the same song wirelessly to up to three home stereos or powered speakers — using AirPort Express with AirTunes.

After taking jabs at politics, including the 2004 Presidential election, Jib Jab takes a shot at American consumerism. Jib Jab’s latest, Big Box Mart, is a parody of Walmart and the all too real cost that these big box stores bring.

Entertaining as usual, and sung to the tune of “Oh, Susanna”. Classic stuff.

AngryAlien.com has posted two new 30 second movies reenacted by bunnies. Highlander and War of the Worlds, the 1953 version.

These have been made for Stars, the cable movie channels, and then are released to the website.

I am still waiting for Star Wars. Which is suppose to be up by December 16, 2005.

There can be only one!

One what?

Getting tired of the same old M&M’s from the candy machine. Why not customize your own at M&M’s new web site.

Follow these steps:

1. Enter up to 2 messages
2. Select up to two colors
3. Buy a minimum of 4 bags (8 oz) at $9.49 each.
4. Taunt your friends/co-workers with your custom M&M’s.
5. Don’t share.

Sure it’s a little pricey. But can you really put a price on taunting your co-workers? I didn’t think so.

Overzealous Firefox users have chronicled their vandalism of an Oregon State University sidewalk. Eight people, including one random sleepwalker, spent $30 and 6 hours creating a masterpiece for the ages. Or until it rains a few times.

They have a whole assortment of pictures detailing their work. Which I am sure will be admitted as evidence.

I can hear the dean now…”ROBOT HOUSE!!!!!”

In response to the Million Dollar Homepage, James has launched the somewhat less ambitious Million Penny Homepage. With the penny being the smallest currency the US has to offer, James didn’t leave any wiggle room for the next copycat…er entrepreneur. Perhaps the Million Peso Homepage!

While we contemplated buying space on the Million Dollar Homepage, the price for anything visible was just too high. But the Million Penny Homepage is right up our alley, for $25 we purchased a 50 x 50 pixel lot for Yelling Lizard. Hopefully it will appear within the next 24 - 48 hours.

YL wishes James and his pxels all the best.

No one knows how many Pastafarians there are, but there could be millions. Created as a joke by a 25 year old physics graduate, meant to be a satire of intelligent design, the FSM has catapulted Bobby Henderson into international fame.

In particular, Mr Henderson was taking aim at the concept of Intelligent Design, or ID, which provides a supposedly scientific alternative to the Old Testament belief that God created the world in six days and nights, but which dismisses most of the fossil record as false and which relies on the Earth being far younger than geological evidence shows.

Currently Mr. Henderson is attempting to have his theory of the FSM taught in the class room. By legal means if he has to, and he already has one lawyer ready to do pro-bono work.

Some “Pastafarians” speak of the rapture that they felt when first touched by “His Noodly Appendage” or offer prayers that end with the word “ramen” - as in the Japanese noodle - rather than “amen”. Others may have been drawn by a vision of Heaven that includes a stripper factory and a beer volcano and what its founder calls the church’s “flimsy moral standards”.

In addition, according to the creed of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, every Friday is a religious holiday, while true believers are urged to dress as pirates because of their founder’s discovery of a causal relationship between global warming and a decline in the number of buccaneers in the past 200 years.

You can’t make this stuff up. Wait a second, yes you can!

The prospect of drinking recycled urine might sound bitter, but it taste sweet to NASA. It cost NASA $40,000 a gallon to send water to the International Space Station. To me, it sounds better than drinking Sierra Mist.

Wired has an interesting article on a company working on cheaply creating potable water in areas where fresh water is scarce. Such as on space stations, deserts, and areas suffering from natural disaster. And the cost to create his potable water will be significantly lower.

Water Security has already begun putting the technology to work in areas where freshwater is in short supply. This summer, global relief agency Concern for Kids deployed a foot-powered purification unit in northern Iraq. Robert and Roni Anderson, Concern’s founders, loaded it onto the back of a Toyota pickup and drove to dozens of villages to purify their groundwater. The unit pumps out 5 gallons per minute, and a single day of purification can sustain a village of 5,000 people for a month. The cost is about 3 cents a gallon. Iraqi water companies, by comparison, charge $4 a gallon.

The article also contains interesting facts on the problem of “draining the dragon” in the early days of space flight.

At least one person hopes The Million Dollar Homepage will be a million dollar idea. Alex Tew of Wiltshire, England will be selling web space for $1 a pixel. A minimum purchase of 100 pixels is required. With only 1,000,000 pixels available space is limited. Alex hopes to raise 1 million dollars to fund his college tuition. Not sure what college costs a million dollars, especially since he says he is going to be studying business management. If this idea works out, I don’t think he will have to study business.

The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, ‘The Million Dollar Homepage”. The main motivation for doing this is to pay for my degree studies, because I don’t like the idea of graduating with a huge student debt. I know people who are paying off student loans 15-20 years after they graduated. Not a nice thought!

So, everyone is welcome to buy my pixels, which are available in 100-pixel ‘blocks’ (each measuring 10×10 pixels). You will see the homepage is divided into 10,000 of these 100-pixel blocks (hence there are 1,000,000 pixels in total). The reason for selling them in 100-pixel blocks is because anything smaller would be too small to display anything meaningful.