The spice blaster is a project designed by Chinese designers Zhu Fei
and was one of the entries from designboom’s recent “dining in 2015″
competition. (w/pic)

Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative
to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it’s been incredibly
successful.

General Motors said Friday that 3,900 auto dealers who sell GM’s
Certified Used Cars will list their entire inventories on eBay Motors,
according to industry publication Automotive News.

If you’re wondering why it takes so long for a programmer to create a new website, this will explain why.  (w/pic)

Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months
in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey — perhaps unsurprisingly
carried out for a firm selling televisions — said on Friday.

The Chinese
mainland is expected to record 21.6 million outbound tourists in the
first half of 2008 with a year-on-year increase of 12.4 percent,
according to a report issued by MasterCard Worldwide.

China removed more
than 200 million items of harmful online information last year,
according to the National Office for Cleaning Up Pornography and
Fighting Illegal Publications.

Contrary to Steve Jobs’ assertion
at the Macworld Expo that "people don’t read anymore," books are as
popular as ever, particularly on the Internet.

Feeling glum and introspective, and think a little shopping might be the ideal
therapy? Don’t do it.
According to a study released on Friday at the annual meeting of the Society for
Social and Personality Psychology, inward-looking people who are down in the
dumps tend to spend more money on the same item than their neutral-emotion
counterparts.