Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…

…stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds! According to Gadling, the traveler’s weblog, there are no fewer than 5 underwater mailboxes around the world. Via Hacked Gadgets

Underwater Post Office, Vanatu

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And if that’s not fishy enough for you, you can send an edible squid flavored post card while you’re at it.

Get a little tail for your dog

Clement Eloy, an innovative French designer, whose site feeladdicted.com has some interesting product concepts, has created the Hotdoll for your horny hound.

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“Get a little tail for your dog” was the tag line for the Cathouse for Dogs, a hoax I perpetrated in 1976. Given the enormous public response (in some cases outcry), and based on the volume of serious inquiries I received at the time, I bet there’s a real market for this product. At any rate, it’s safer, cleaner and more affordable. Plus, your dog doesn’t have to share unless he wants to.

Thank you: jokestarter.com

The Coulter Hoax: How Ann Coulter Exposed the Intelligent Design Movement

060713_finch_01.jpgThis article by Peter Olofsson about Ann Coulter’s 2006 book Godless: The Church of Liberalism, in which she criticizes the theory of evolution, is from LiveScience.com, in cooperation with Skeptical Inquirer.

Olofsson is a visiting associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tulane University. He has done research in mathematical biology and is the author of Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives. -JS


In the summer of 2006, I heard that a new book called Godless presented an insightful and devastating criticism of the theory of evolution. Although I learned that its author, Ann Coulter, is not a scientist but a lawyer turned author and TV pundit, she nevertheless appeared to be an intelligent and well-educated person, so I started reading.

At first I was puzzled. There did not seem to be anything new; only tired and outdated antievolution arguments involving moths, finches, and fruit flies. But it wasn”t until Coulter dusted off the old Piltdown man story that I suddenly realized: it was a hoax! And it was brilliant…

Read the whole article here