Tokyo-based chemical company Asahi Kasei, a corporate giant with 25,000 employees, has announced an environmentally friendly product of the very special kind: swimsuits [JP]. The lovely ladies you can see on the picture (Ayumi Kura, 20, on the left and eighteen-year-old Shi Weng Lu on the right) are wearing bikinis made of polyethylene tephthalate. Polyethylene tephthalate (PET) is the stuff they… → Read More
Larry King, Chris Matthews, Wolf Blitzer, Jim Lehrer, Geraldo Rivera — when you think of hard-hitting news from trustworthy sources, these might be some of the names that come to mind (except Geraldo). Well get ready to add one more name to that list: Jessica. That’s right, she only needs one name. And who needs a last name when you’re ready to shake up the state of modern… → Read More
This is the strangest and, yet, most arousing thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s a German babe in a bikini smashing the begeezus out of a Powerbook. She must have been running BootCamp when the BSD appeared. They really like to smash gadgets and it breaks my heart. It’s a strange feeling because I hate to see gadgets being destroyed, but girls in bikinis seem to trump that. → Read More
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