This is FIG.COM!

They are not here. For a while, fig.com was the web site of some diet clinics. I don’t have anything to do with them, and I can’t tell you anything about them.

Here is the statement they had up at figcom,

We are sorry to report that, due to economic conditions beyond our control, fig. ceased operations on December 7, 2007. The company closed the doors of 17 of its 18 centers around the country. The only center that will remain open is the Costa Mesa, CA facility, which is an independently owned and operated center.

The company is currently consulting with counsel and will likely seek legal relief under the bankruptcy code to ensure it preserves all options including the ability to reorganize and continue operations.

Current patients undergoing treatment will be contacted by the company regarding continued treatment options or making a refund claim. Please check this web site for the latest information.

That’s what I know. I can’t tell you anything else about it.

Exploding Hello Kitty toys recalled!

No further comment is needed, nor possible.

OK, this is kind of cool. These people are selling a pre-fab, complete Espresso Coffee Shop.

It’s a tiny building you drop on a site, and begin pulling shots from. It looks familiar, having seen many such tiny coffee places in parking areas all over this great country.

Available in 10′ x 26′ or 10′ by 36′. They don’t list how much.

Hello Kitty Fat Meter

Well, as for me,

I just found that the SETI Institute has a (downloadable) Radio Show.

Who knew

Someone took their kids on the Thomas the Tank Engine Train Ride, and lived to tell about it. With pictures.

There’s an astonishingly cute baby elephant at the Saint Louis Zoo. Pictures abound!

No Dogs Allowed

Originally uploaded by ejpw.

Nor Trojan Horses apparently.

Why no, as a matter of fact I’n oh so not kidding.

(via Axis of the Really Annoying)

Big Spanish Castle is an extra cool optical illusion (which requires javascript, for good reasons).

Found in a comment at The Daily WTF,

This reminds me of touring through Australia’s only nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, near Sydney. Inside the reactor there is a button, which says

‘Do Not Press This Button’

Apparently it was hooked up to a counter. Particularly fun on open to the public days.

Tissue paper is for the weak.

Digby is the source of this story, from my home town about a cat that treed a bear!

WEST MILFORD, N.J. - A black bear picked the wrong New Jersey yard for a jaunt earlier this week, running into a territorial tabby who ran the furry beast up a tree — twice.

Jack, a 15-pound orange-and-white cat, keeps a close vigil on his property, chasing small animals when he can, but his owners and neighbors say his latest escapade was surprising.

“We used to joke, ‘Jack’s on duty,’ never knowing he’d go after a bear,” cat owner Donna Dickey told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday’s newspapers.

Neighbor Suzanne Giovanetti first spotted Jack’s accomplishment after her husband saw a bear climb a tree on the edge of their northern New Jersey home’s back yard on Sunday. Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat.

After about 15 minutes peering down at the cat from the tree, the bear descended and tried to run away, only to have Jack chase it up another tree.

At this point Dickey, who feared for her cat, called Jack back home and the bear scurried back to the woods.

Digby attributes this behavior to general feline cussedness. I merely observe that my home town is an odd nexus of inexlicable forces.

With bears. And cats.

And, when you are getting the band together, you could do worse than a Fender® Hello Kitty® guitar!

Truth be told, it was the Badtz-Maru P-Bass that caused my good Wife to bring this to my attention, but there’s nothing shabby about a Kitty Strat.

Actually, the right band name here would be, I have not mouth, but I Must Rock, or something.

Sir Factant

Now, go ye and obtain a record contract!

So, you’re asking yourself, where can I get a Unix shell prompt, preferably for free

Nyx

Nyx, the world’s oldest free public-access Internet Service Provider, provides Unix shell accounts, a full, uncensored newsfeed, email, web space, and even Unix programming and development tools for non-commercial use.

I just gave them some money. The world needs more of this.

Thre are already too many posts that link to a company web site merely because you would never associate that company with the web. Here, let me be part of the problem,

Welcome to Wham-O

They’ve got Frisbees, super-balls, and Hula Hoops. They deserve something for that. I’m giving them a link.