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"Honestly, I don't really get it," said BMO Capital Markets analyst Gerrick Johnson. "But I don't need to get it for a toy to be hot."
The toys do have several factors that make them compelling, Johnson said: fun accessories and scarcity - sometimes when something is hard to obtain it makes people want it more. And they have one big thing going for them in tough economic times: They're cheap.
"The last couple of years the robotic pet has been very popular, but those have been very expensive," like Hasbro's $US250 robotic dinosaur Kota the Triceratops, he said. "But here's a version of a robotic pet that only costs $US10."
Hmm. That's cheap all right, but I wonder how long before the novelty wears off?A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in Surfers Paradise after trying to pass off his mother's hormone medication as ecstasy pills to sell to Schoolies, police say.
While Gold Coast Superintendent Jim Keogh praised the behaviour of the majority of the 7,500 Schoolies in the party zone last night, he said he had been taken aback by the Logan teenager, who allegedly saw a "business opportunity" too good to miss.
Schoolies initially dobbed in the boy, who was arrested in Cavill Avenue.
When police questioned him further, he admitted the pills he was trying to sell were prescription "ovary medication" belonging to his mother, Superintendent Keogh said.
From the Brisbane Times. Gotta admire his entrepreneurial spirit, if nothing else.A woman who displayed stolen booty from a break-in on Facebook was ordered to perform community service Friday.
Michele Nolan, 22, had pleaded guilty earlier to breaking into the home of four university students on Lester Street in Waterloo on Sept. 20, 2008.
Kitchener’s Ontario Court heard at the time that she, and a second woman who also pleaded guilty, later posed on the social networking site, Facebook, with some of the stolen items.
Nolan and Sarah Lakhan broke in through a ground-floor window. The home’s five occupants — four students at Wilfrid Laurier University — were at the Homecoming football game.
Source.LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.
Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat.
The group stored the fat it collected in used soda and water bottles, which police showed reporters.
"We have people detained who have declared and stated how they murdered people with the aim being to extract their fat in rudimentary labs and sell it," said Police Commander Angel Toldeo.
New York TimesA US man dressed as a breathalyzer test for Halloween found himself blowing into one after police stopped him for allegedly driving the wrong way without headlights on a one-way street.
Oxford police in Ohio said they stopped 20-year-old James P. Miller on Halloween night and found beer in his front seat and in the trunk.
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I stopped bathing about a week before the scheduled meeting. And stopped brushing my hair. I stayed out of the sun and put a halt to my normal everyday exercise routine in order to eliminate any traces of a healthful facial glow, and replace it with a sickly pallor.That's pretty hardcore! Effective, too; they dropped her like a hot potato.
Now, this is very funny, but I think that over pigeon-traversable distances in which latency isn't an issue, the pigeon will always win. A random web-page promises that a carrier pigeon can bear loads of up to 1.7 oz or about 48.2g. My postal scale says that my 64GB SD card weighs 2.05g. Which means that a pigeon could carry 23 64GB SD cards, or 1.472 terabytes. In the Telkom race, the pigeon traversed 40km in 2 hours.
I think that even the best commercial ISP in the world would be hard-pressed to deliver 736GB/h between two customer DSL end-points. Likewise, I think that even the greatest pigeon on the world would be hard-pressed to deliver even one bit of information from Cape Town to New York.
From BoingBoing.