Techotic

Artist Stefan Gross created the “Love Hate Punch” punching bag. The bag lights up if you hit it and if you do your best it changes color from dark red to bright red to yellow to white.

Love hate punch

This subject should not be discussed but I am sure that most of us know that work and porn should not be used in the same sentence unless you work for the adult industry.

Maybe you’re in the mood for some fabric in the shape of your iPhone. Or maybe you don’t have one and so you reckon a felt iPhone will still put you in the cool status. Either way you are allowed to bid on this one which is apparently starting at a meager $25 on eBay with a $5 shipping surcharge. Oh well at least it doesn’t look as hideous as that iPhone cake the ultra geeky kid got for his birthday. Hit the jump for another photo and the auction link.

Well they did not trademark the entire song, just the line “with glowing hearts” and if that was not too bad they are threatening to sue anyone who uses the line in Canada as part of the Vancouver Games.

Remember a couple days ago when those pirates captured that Iranian vessel which is said to be carrying some type of minerals and maybe chemical weapons? Well it turns out that they have suddenly fallen ill and not only that but the Iranian government is threatening the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Program with a lawsuit if it doesn’t shut up and quite talking about “evil chemicals” onboard the vessel.

Another day another lawsuit. And here I begun to think that it was only the US who sued so much. Well thanks to a story that one Indian man (who happens to be one of the worlds richest persons) believes destroyed his good name and among other things is suing his brother, Time Magazine for a whopping 100 billion rupees which works out to be $2 billion (or a little less taking into account or economy).

It never seems to amaze me how America is obsessed with sex. You know Dunkin Donut says America runs off them, but I think a more fitting statement would say “America runs off sex.” Not only do we consume the most porn out of any nation, we also have an insatiable appetite for anything related to cleavage. Thanks in part to Maxim, Sports Illustrated, Import Tuner, FHM and the infamous Playboy.

Philip Pullman celebrated his novel The Golden Compass appearing in the top five of the American Library Association’s list of 2007’s most challenged books talks about the futility of censorship and why it never works: