This was supposed to be mainly news about our novelty/oddity websites, and the novelty industry in general,
but then I got way into novelty music and set up Restless Mouse Radio, so now there's links for that, plus I post the ocassional joke, and, well,
it winds up like most blogs... a hodgepodge of nonsense.
Fortunately there are topic tags so you can find relevant posts easily.
Lost in translation? pupil-rubbing machine.
We are constantly bombarded with emails from Chinese manufacturers, touting all kinds of strange products, I kind of think these are small operations trying to emulate the success of others, but not there just yet. Although I am sort of intrigued by this "eye massager"
Hooks into your USB port, then what? I don't want to end up on the church lawn clawing my eyes out. They need to provide more details. Can I wear it in the bathtub?
Just ran our site against greatfirewallofchina.org and discovered it is not blocked by the authorities there. I don't know if they just overlooked our puny site, or decided to give us a pass because half the crap we sell is made there, or exactly what the deal is. I guess one of our goals for the website is to be blocked by some totalitarian regime- US Corporate websites don't count.
PS Why do they get to be called "authorities" when they are often responsible for banning certain authors? Whoever "they" are.
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