You smell like drinking!

Oops, again with the infrequent blog posts. I recently bought a house and while I'm ecstatic about that, the downside is I have to clean out and pack up my apartment. I had actually forgotten how much stuff we own.

And now to the news...

A company in Japan (where else) has come out with a teddy bear with a built-in breathalyzer. And it talks! The title is my vote for what it should say. It's also a Futurama reference (collect the whole set!). This device could be a punishment for drivers with previous DUI convictions.

The American Astronomical Society has produced the most detailed map of our home galaxy ever, National Geographic reports. Producing a map of the galaxy when you're in it is a surprisingly difficult task. This map shows that there are fewer major spiral arms than previously believed, with two rather than four.

For those of you longing for a simpler time, before the age of the talking teddy bear, a small British company might have just the thing. The home stereo has an iPod dock, CD player, and yes, a working radio, and the unit itself is made to look like a Second World War - era field radio set. It'll set you back about $600 Canadian plus shipping, but that would look awesome in pretty much any house (mostly in mine).

Now here is some bad news. A recent filing by a group of small Canadian ISPs shows that Bell Canada's bandwidth throttling is so severe that it sometimes reduces the speed of a 5 mbps connection to half the speed of dial-up (remember the days of 28 kbps modems?). That's money well wasted.