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12/17/02:

better living through...

from rebecca's pocket I found the New York Times' annual Year in Ideas - 100 of this year's most profound, amusing, ridiculous, redundant, or even truly frightening innovations, patterns, and emerging cultural phenomena of the year. for most of them, one can only wish a quick demise for 2003....

and some personal ideas of note from disturbing - featherless chickens; to unnerving - the know nothing CEO; to, well, something I might consider for a moment - Open Source Begging..

and, I would like to add one more new idea (new to me anyways) w/ some amusingly scary cultural implications -

the Angle Adjustable Steering wheel Table Auto Tray -

some ad copy -

It has been more than one hundred years since automobile was invented. It has been said that people are living on wheels in the U.S.A. When a driver is resting in an automobile, he or she may want to read, write, eat meals, apply cosmetics or use a portable computer. However, he or she surely has experienced uncomfortable for these activities [sic] due to a steering wheel that causes many inconveniences.

oddly, I don't see any way for the little shelf to not turn with the steering wheel.

I just HAD to find out about this steering wheel table thing after reading ph8's amusing
post on massively over-featured consumables that blitz the late night airwaves and wondering if such things really exist (without cable television, I'm really out of the loop on such things).

and one last inane but oddly tempting idea to remember 2002 by - Botox parties!!.

posted by jeremy @ 4:17 PM