Virgin Atlantic Salt and Pepper Shakers

Jan 1996 Free (if you steal them)
We regret advocating theft. Richard Branson is still pissed.: Mar 1996 $699
Travel gently down the trail.: July 1996 Nail Enamel: $11
Novelty wore off before the polish did.: Sep 1996 $3,900
Are you lying now? Are you lying now?: Sep 1996 $34
This was before your IT people started yelling at you for losing these things.: Oct 1996 $N/A
Replaced the less evolved Sound Slug.: Dec 1996 $1,556,000
The most expensive item ever in Fetish.: Feb 1997 $349
Just like recipe cards, but with a tiny screen and awkward keyboard.: Jun 1997 $49.95
110-dB laptop-protecting alarm foils thieves, enrages neighbors.: Jun 1997 $12,230
Camera + microphone + GPS + computer + cell phone + backpack = nerd.: Sep 1997 $59.95
It will wake me when I start to snore. Isn’t that what my wife does?: Oct 1997 $6
When a regular Pez dispenser isn’t enough.: Dec 1997 $39
Fake damaged PowerBook case from Mythbusters‘ Adam Savage.: Feb 1998 $60
Remote-controlled Mylar balloon launched a thousand X-Files jokes.: Mar 1998 $34.99
A boon for orthopedic surgeons, as fathers tried to impress their sons with a fastball.: Sep 1998 $50
How could you ever eat such cute breakfast food?: Sep 1998 $4,995
This wearable computing thing will be huge.: Oct 1998 $19.95
Because nothing said 1998 like a PDA stylus attached to your finger.
 

Walker County native Ashley Harkleroad lost 6-2, 6-1 to fifth-seeded Serena Williams in the opening round of the 2008 French Open on Sunday. Harkleroad, currently ranked 61st in the world, was playing in her fourth French Open. She advanced to the third round in 2003.

Harkelroad will team with Russian Galina Voskoboeva in women’s doubles. They will face the French team of Youlia Fedossova and Virginie Pichet in the first round. I’ve heard word that American darling Ashley Harkleroad will be appearing in the August issue of Playboy.

Photo by BTF (with iphone)

Rated ( PG) 

It’s not a nice picture but is a sad one. 

Proceed CD Library

Premiere Issue 1993 $12,000
Holds 100 CDs. Costs 12 grand.: May/June 1993 Under $100
Back stock snapped up by Jaron Lanier.: Nov 1993 $699
Most misunderstood gadget ever? Or biggest flop? Both.: Feb 1994 $400
Keyboard neck and “strummer veins” did not rock.: Feb 1994 $5,000
We called this patent collection “The most significant body of information ever published in electronic format. “Oops!”: Mar 1994 $1,999
Frankly, it was no Newton.: Jul 1994 $100
Translated bass to vibrations on your chest. Feel the music.: Aug 1994 $6,000
Personal workspace shielded you from coworkers’ scorn.: Sep 1994 $85,000
Personal underwater craft featured a three-day air supply.: Oct 1994 $3,615
Tattoo removal seems like a job best left to professionals.: Feb 1995 $9,000 a pair
Instead of a big ugly box, a big ugly tube.: Aug 1995 Shirt: $34.50, Pants: $24
Mosquitoes less repelled than incapacitated by own laughter.: Oct 1995 $5,198
All the fun of a coin-op car wash, at home!: Oct 1995 $15
Too bad the Legos were sold separately.: Dec 1995 $4,869
This is what the future looked like in the mid-’90s.