Man Seeks Ideas for 'Groping Arnold' Doll (AP)

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Schwarzenegger Seeks to Terminate
Bobblehead Doll (Reuters)

Schwarzenegger Seeks to Terminate
Bobblehead Doll (Reuters) 05/04/2004 09:22 AM
Reuters - Having a doll with a bobbing head in your own likeness may be all right for Abraham Lincoln, Al Capone, Hilary Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Jesus. But California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is outraged and wants out, distinguished company or not.

""baby doll tee""

""baby doll tee"" 05/12/2004 09:38 AM

Do not call me DOLL

Do not call me DOLL 07/21/2004 10:01 PM
Super Dollfies: are they the Ca bbage Patch Kids / Furbies of the moment?
Near obsessive Do not call me DOLL Super Dollfie photo blog.

it's the ann coulter doll!

it's the ann coulter doll! 12/29/2003 03:02 PM
ann coulter action figure i only wish i had seen this prior to christmas. it talks, too! sound samples included

"inflatable Bush doll"

"inflatable Bush doll" 05/20/2004 02:30 AM

Talking Love Doll

Talking Love Doll 07/28/2004 04:40 PM
Back it up, RealD oll, this new pornorealist product plans to kick your 36"-24"-36" synthetic ass. Formed in the image of Playmate Linn Thomas, the "Talking Love Doll" promises to do what none before have: talk back atcha. "Almost seamless, life-like feeling skin, mannequin hands, feet and head with long flowing hair, large breasts and jointed arms with orbital sockets, multi-speed, Batteries included," says the website, along with claims that the "Wireless, Vibrating" Ms. Thomas is molded from all-new "Futurotic Material." You say Futurotic, I say vinyl. Whatever.

One thing is certain: IANALDU (I am not a love doll user), but even more tempting than the off-the-shelf model would be a haxxored version. She could speak everything from Shakespeare to software user manuals, for the man with the right set of tools. And, no, I actually mean tools. Dollmodding, anyone?
L ink to Fleshbot post.

eBay Today: What A Doll!

eBay Today: What A Doll! 07/09/2004 01:54 AM
Maybe not one of a kind, but how about one of only 400 in the world?

Real Doll photography

Real Doll photography 03/29/2005 08:54 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Photographer Elena Dorfman has a new book out called Still Lovers with pictures of those creepy Real Doll sex toys in quotidian situations.

For many, the idea of the sex doll conjures images of the kitschy inflatable, but these expensive, highly realistic dolls, which owners customize down to the smallest detail, are far from silly, and they perform more than a sexual role for thier owners.For many, the idea of the sex doll conjures images of the kitschy inflatable, but these expensive, highly realistic dolls, which owners customize down to the smallest detail, are far from silly, and they perform more than a sexual role for thier owners.

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German caught having sex with doll
(Reuters)

German caught having sex with doll
(Reuters) 09/01/2004 09:27 AM
Reuters - A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, police in Stuttgart say.

The Russian Nesting Doll of Games

The Russian Nesting Doll of Games 02/14/2004 05:43 AM
The object of The Sims, a popular video game, is to keep the characters happy in their daily lives. Now comes a fan-made plug-in that lets the in-game characters amuse themselves by -- what else? -- playing the SimCity video game. By Daniel Terdiman.

Russian sex doll rafting tournament

Russian sex doll rafting tournament 08/20/2004 11:22 PM
Xeni Jardin: Saturday is the second annual inflatable sex doll raft race (aka Bubble Baba Challenge) in Russia. English story from Mosnews: Link. Photos from last year: Link (Thanks, Rob!)

"Talking Jesus doll in the works"

"Talking Jesus doll in the works" 04/14/2005 10:32 AM

Total Rekall of the Scharzenegger doll

Total Rekall of the Scharzenegger doll 05/01/2004 01:01 PM
CNN reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to sue Bosley Bobbers seeking to stop production of a charity bob blehead doll. The doll shows the former action-actor turned Governor of California posing in a business suit, ammo belt and assault rifle. Arnold is arguing that he owns the marketing rights to his likeness. The creators argue that he lost those rights when he became a political figure. However, this seems to be a repeat of Hustler v. Falwell. And courts lately have been skeptical of trademark rights trumping satire. On the other hand, there seems to be a fine line between editorial use and commercial exploitation.

Toddlerpedes: doll-torsos and limbs
frankensteined together

Toddlerpedes: doll-torsos and limbs
frankensteined together 03/30/2005 02:36 PM
Cory Doctorow: Johnny Beinart makes his "Toddlerpede" sculptures by frankensteining together the torsos, heads and limbs of dolls so that they become million-armed monstrosities with grinning childish blue-eyed heads, so wrong, eek, lovely. Link (via Monochrom)

Mommy, why does Talking Jesus Doll want
me to kill daddy?

Mommy, why does Talking Jesus Doll want
me to kill daddy? 04/18/2005 01:58 PM
real news story

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Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll Ridicules
Saddam (Reuters)

Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll Ridicules
Saddam (Reuters) 06/30/2004 11:03 AM
Reuters - Iraqis used to dance to his tune, but in Baghdad toy shops a chubby, gun-toting Saddam Hussein doll now wiggles his hips to the "Hippy Hippy Shake."

Sex Doll Sparks Bomb Alert at Postoffice
(Reuters)

Sex Doll Sparks Bomb Alert at Postoffice
(Reuters) 03/17/2005 03:16 AM
Reuters - A blow-up sex doll sparked a bomb alert in a German post office after it started to vibrate inside a package awaiting delivery, police said Wednesday.

Sex doll sparks bomb alert at post
office

Sex doll sparks bomb alert at post
office 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: A life-sized sex doll caused a bomb alert in a German post office when it began vibrating inside a package:

"Workers were unsettled when it began vibrating and made strange noises," a spokesman for police in the eastern city of Chemnitz said. "They were worried the package might be a bomb." Officers brought the sender to the scene and discovered the source of alarm was an electrical device inside a life-size female sex doll. The man told police he had wanted to return the doll because it kept turning itself on at the wrong moment.

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Japanese sweet-toothed doll kidnapped
(Reuters)

Japanese sweet-toothed doll kidnapped
(Reuters) 04/26/2004 04:44 AM
Reuters - "Peko-chan", a round-eyed mannequin with a lip-licking grin, has seen a lot in her five decades of hawking sweets for a leading Japanese confectioner.

Democrat Plans 'Girlie Man' Doll
(Reuters)

Democrat Plans 'Girlie Man' Doll
(Reuters) 09/10/2004 09:27 AM
Reuters - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Democrats "girlie men" during a recent budget battle. Now, a Democratic lobbyist wants to turn him into one in the form of a bobblehead doll in a hot pink dress and matching pumps.

Taiwan Town Devotes Doll Museum to
Barbie (AP)

Taiwan Town Devotes Doll Museum to
Barbie (AP) 09/12/2004 08:21 PM
AP - Some Taiwanese towns are famous for their clay teapots, others for their ornate painted umbrellas. But this grimy industrial city wants to be remembered for something completely foreign. Barbie.

Wired News: The Russian Nesting Doll of
Games

Wired News: The Russian Nesting Doll of
Games 02/16/2004 06:59 AM
The Russian Nesting Doll of Games [Wired News] .. simulated people of their very own .. Slice City

wired.com/news/games/0,2101,62287,00.html
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Schwarzenegger Threatens Lawsuit Over
Bobblehead Doll - April 30, 2004

Schwarzenegger Threatens Lawsuit Over
Bobblehead Doll - April 30, 2004 05/01/2004 01:21 PM
cease-and-desist letter threatening a lawsuit .. Smoking Gun .. TSG

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Yahoo! News - Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll
Ridicules Saddam

Yahoo! News - Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll
Ridicules Saddam 07/01/2004 10:18 AM
Iraqis Used To Dance To His Tune, But In Baghdad Toy Shops A Chubby, Gun-Toting Saddam Hussein Doll Now Wiggles His Hips To The "Hippy Hippy Shake." .. Hip-Swaying Dancing Doll Ridicules Saddam

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Big Ideas

Big Ideas 07/25/2004 12:25 PM
Big Ideas. "Eating, sleeping, procreating, laughing - and trying to create a world in which we can do these things unmolested - have all been far greater drivers of human ingenuity than time machines or battery-operated scooters." - "We may no longer hold high hopes of the state, but if the study of individuals reminds us of our common humanity and prompts us to reassess the merits of the collective, let’s welcome it."

IDEAS

IDEAS 12/02/2003 01:22 AM
IDEAS - Internet Documents in Economics Access Service
http://ideas.repec.org/

Welcome to the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available on the Internet. Over 200'000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 110'000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc. IDEAS is a service providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession. IDEAS stands for "Internet Documents in Economics Access Service", which is not very good English, but you get the idea... The data available here are contributed at no charge by volunteers and made available freely. This service uses the complete data from the RePEc database, which includes bibliographic data contributed by over 330 archives, including many of the major research outlets and publishers.

Novel Ideas

Novel Ideas 06/10/2004 09:03 PM
Technovelgy lists inventions from science fiction novels, including the Tasp, the Delpi Pool, Retinal Projection and the Invisible Teenager.

Bad Ideas

Bad Ideas 04/09/2005 12:48 PM

« Hung between the squeaky piggies and nylon chew bones were an altogether different kind of squeaky chew bone. I wondered if they were beef flavoured and if they were a hot item with women who want to have their dog chew on them in front of an annoying boyfriend as a way to run them off. :) »

Another product of a bad idea: the new Fi zz Lime Cider. It tastes like someone poured cider into your G&T. There's a reason why it's the "World's first lime cider".

Ideas are Cheap

Ideas are Cheap 09/01/2004 12:28 AM
I've got a physical product idea that I'll probably never be able to develop, so I figure that I'll just...

Blogging Ideas

Blogging Ideas 06/02/2004 05:01 PM
I've just agreed to be the official blogger of for the first day of Boston.com's Ideas Boston 2004 conference. The redoubtable Scott Kirsner will be blogging the second day. The blog should show up on Boston.com somewhere. Looks like a great conference and it should be fun to blog......

Bad Geek Ideas

Bad Geek Ideas 12/31/2003 12:19 AM

The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever: I haven't even heard of half of these: Data Play? Magic Cap? Go?

WebTV: A type of internet appliance that used a TV, instead of a monitor, to display web pages. Initially popular with the tech-averse when it shipped in 1996, Microsoft would buy the company for $425 million a year later. But when sales stalled at around a million users, someone woke up and realized that low-resolution TVs are lousy at displaying emails and web pages. Microsoft has since renamed WebTV MSN TV, but it's not any better. If you're reading this on a WebTV - or an MSN TV -- I'm sorry for calling your kid ugly, but get yourself a real computer. You'll like it a whole lot better.

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Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from? 02/05/2005 09:32 PM

Some more 'fun with numbers' today. A while ago I mentioned IdeaChampions' When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven't taken the survey already, you can still do so. But before you click to post your answers, write them down. Then you can use this article to create your Personal Creativity Profile, as I've done above. The Profile will tell you: When and where you get your best ideas How your sources of great ideas differ from others, and why How you can make more time and space for creative activities The chart above compares my scores on the 36 questions with the normalized* answers of other respondents. If you want to create your own chart like this, using Excel or a similar spreadsheet software, here's how to do it: From the IdeaChampions' survey page, copy the 36 questions, and paste them to the first column of your spreadsheet using Paste SpecialText. Copy your scores into the next column. Then copy the normalized average scores from the bottom of this post into the third column, using Paste SpecialText. Highlight the entire table you've created and sort it in ascending order by your scores. Then add a row at the top of the chart and type in column headings. Then highlight the entire table you've created and Insert a bar chart, which should look something like the chart above. Interpreting your Profile: In my case, brainstorming, creative thinking techniques, talking with customers, taking time just upon waking, taking breaks, and listening to music are my six 'sure-fire' ways to generate creativity, so I should learn to draw on one or more of them whenever creative thinking is needed. I should keep a pencil and paper beside the bed for waking-hour inspirations. And since I take a lot of breaks and walk around, I should get wireless headphones so my music goes with me. I should study creative thinking techniques so that they become second nature. And I should spend more time talking with, and listening to, current and potential customers. What's more, the last three of these six creativity sources are unusual to me, and not effective for most others, so if I'm in a group creativity setting I should be cautious about suggesting others take breaks or listen to music. I should be sensitive to the fact that happiness is an essential precondition to creativity for most people, though it isn't for me, and also that most others will be more creative if they take a walk, read books, talk with friends, or spend time thinking just before bed, even though those techniques don't work particularly well for me. There are some other interesting differences between my creative places and times, and those of most others. I find flying and commuting very stimulating -- perhaps it's the movement, and the fact that my commutes are off-rush-hour and hence fast-paced and relaxing. I find television stimulates my thinking more than it does for most others, but that's probably because of what I watch -- documentaries, mysteries, in-depth investigative reports and foreign programming. And the least effective three sources for me -- internet surfing, vacationing and exercising, are all fairly intense, focused activities for me, that don't leave many 'cycles of brainpower' for creative thinking, though I can appreciate that others who find these activities more recreational could also find them more creatively stimulating. Next I asked myself how I could find more time and space for the creative activities that work best for me. To answer this I added another column to the spreadsheet, and entered for each of the 36 activities the amount of time each week I currently spent on each. I again used a scale of 1-5 for this: Activities that consume >20 hours of time a week -- 5 Activities that consume 15-20 hours a week -- 4 Activities that consume 10-15 hours a week -- 3 Activities that consume 5-10 hours a week -- 2 Activities that consume <5 hours a week -- 1 Now I added one more column that showed, for each of the 36 activities, my rating (1-5), divided by the amount of time I spend at it each week (1-5, using the scale above). If you do this and re-sort the 36 activities in ascending order of this last 'Personal Score/Time Spent' column, the resulting chart looks like this: What this second chart reveals is what, ideally speaking, you should try to spend more time doing (the activities at the top of the chart, which you've rated as a source of great ideas, but which you spend relatively little time doing) and what you should try to spend less time doing (the activities at the bottom of the chart). In my case, I should 'get out more' -- spend more time brainstorming with others and just moving around, and less time in front of the computer. I also need to use creative thinking techniques more often. My 'catch-all' #36 'other source' answer was spending time in the hot tub, which I suppose must somehow work for me the way showers work for others. What is it about being in the water that gets us thinking creatively? No wonder dolphins are such imaginative creatures! Though to my surprise, others' top 'write-in' answer for question #36 was 'on the toilet', so perhaps we should see whether porcelain has some mysterious power to spark ideation. While others spend their time in airport lounges, airplanes and traffic either bored or fuming, I find these activities 'transport' me and get me thinking very creatively. Because it's dangerous to write while driving, I've learned to use mnemonic devices to capture and remember ideas that occur to me until I can safely write them down (works in the shower, too). If I could find a dictating machine that worked with my voice-recognition software I'd probably use it instead -- maybe even write a whole paper or blog post simply thinking out loud while I drive. It's quite possible, though, that since much of my travel is early-morning, it's actually that time of day that's responsible for the flurry of ideas, rather than the movement. Though since I'm a night-owl, usually miserable in the morning, I'm not sure that my body clock, or the ones around me, could handle it if I tried early-to-bed, early-to-rise. It hurts just thinking about it. What works for you, and why? Are there times and places and techniques that aren't on this list at all that seem to surface great ideas for you? In what ways does your ideal environment for idea generation differ from mine, and from the other survey respondents'? And are there ways you could be spending your time a little differently to allow your right brain to get some more exercise? * How I normalized the 'average' answers to the survey: First of all, I double-counted the '5' scores, the proportion of people who found each time or place a 'sure-fire' source of great ideas, because I think that's just as important as 'average' score. Then, because when you average scores you get most of them clustered around the 3 average, I 'stretched' the results so that the top-scoring source (brainstorming) received a normalized score of 5 and the lowest-scoring source (being sad or depressed) received a normalized score of 2. Finally, I rounded the results to the nearest 0.5. The results then more closely map, in standard deviation and distribution of results, an individual's scoring. Here are the normalized scores in order for the 36 questions (for copying and pasting into your own spreadsheet): 4.0 4.0 3.0 3.5 3.5 4.0 3.0 4.5 3.0 3.5 4.5 4.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 3.0 2.5 2.5 3.5 3.0 3.0 4.5 4.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 3.5 4.0

Donation Ideas

Donation Ideas 07/20/2002 11:08 AM

Product ideas

Product ideas 07/02/2004 04:17 PM

With every WWDC, Apple announces more and more cool stuff for developers that make writing apps ever easier.

So that makes me wonder about the process of deciding what apps to develop. Assuming you have a ton of good ideas for apps, there are two basic ways to approach the decision:

1. Pick one that should be easy to implement because Apple has already given you most of what you need.

2. Pick one that should be difficult to implement because you have to invent a bunch of stuff from scratch.

For instance... when NetNewsWire 1.0 shipped, there was no WebKit for displaying HTML. There was an XML parser, but there was no object-oriented, easy-to-use Cocoa XML parser. The Cocoa bindings technology didn’t exist. HTTP networking was poorly supported. The XML-RPC support (for weblog editing) was so crashy at the time that I had to write my own XML-RPC client.

(When I was a boy, we used to have walk ten miles through the snow before we could retain an object. If we wanted to use autorelease we had to go without lunch.)

You can’t draw a conclusion from one example, but I’ll give it a try anyway. The conclusion might be that #2—pick something difficult to implement—is the better choice.

I say that because it gives you a chance to be first at something, to do something new. If it’s a good idea and you’ve done a good job, your chances of success are good.

On the other hand, you could probably do three easy apps in the time it takes to do one difficult app. So there’s definitely that to consider.

However, while I can’t talk about most of what happens at WWDC, I can tell you it’s utterly predictable that, in six months or less, there will be 15 apps that do X, 20 that do Y, and 30 that do Z—just because X, Y, and Z have been made so darn easy to do. But those aren’t apps, they’re statistics.

The Year In Ideas

The Year In Ideas 12/13/2003 12:45 PM
popo writes "The New York Times Magazine has a review of the year's most original and interesting ideas. They include "The Tornado in a Can" ("A contained ...

Gift ideas

Gift ideas 12/11/2003 01:09 PM
For that special someone. Kinda/sorta nsfw and/or offensive.Via Bifurcated Rivets.Again.(flash?)

Great ideas 101

Great ideas 101 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
Boston Globe Dec 3 2003 1:55AM ET

Surfing for ideas on the Net

Surfing for ideas on the Net 06/01/2004 05:21 PM
Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com - ...fund managers are finding alternative investments to play the positive sentiment surrounding the [Google] IPO....

Too many ideas in one place?

Too many ideas in one place? 05/10/2004 03:01 AM

Jonas has another thing to say.....

Back to The Future.

Dave Winer:

Supernova and the recently announced Web 2.0 conference are throwbacks to the priorities of old conferences, of the eighties and nineties: sponsors, speakers, panels, audience.
Execs from high tech companies pay sponsorship fees, not disclosed, and guarantee that the content is paid advertising and that nothing real is said on stage. If you don’t pay the sponsorship fee, you don’t get a speaking slot. If you offend a sponsor, you don’t get invited back.

I agree with Dave and Marc. Conferences like these are more or less paid-for sales events, highly priced ones at that. Speaker selection and attendee lists reflect this trend, as well. We have at our hands what can be simply described as a traveling circus of speakers, echoing a number of messages which have been carefully selected and tailored to support the barely buried ulterior motives of sponsors and organizers.

This is less so an issue with the speakers. Most of which are genuine and looking to spread not a sales message but to educate and entertain.

I disagree with Dave on the next part:

The organization of the conferences, with speakers and panels, guarantees that the audience falls asleep or is frustrated, waiting to make their point until they get to ask questions at the end of the session.

Not so, I say. Conferences do their best to deliver a lively and inductive message. Supernova, Web 2.0, and others, make generous use of the traveling circus, add promises about financial gain or new discoveries and developments, and keep attendees on their toes.

This is, where the true problem lies. The infusion of new material, different speakers, or dissenting opinions is dangerous to the ideas of events with an agenda. A controlled message requires controlled ideas. The circus, by means of exposure, has since created celebrities of their own makings, another benefit to the organizers – big names draw big bucks, and big recognition for the advertised services.

[a preponderance of evidence - What Willis Wuz' Talkin' 'Bout]
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