Wednesday, April 28, 2004

The Greatest Scientific Breakthrough Of Our Time

The greatest scientific breakthrough of our time is not fiber optics or cloning and it has nothing to do with stem cells. It's the Reach Access Daily Flosser. I bought one the other night and can't believe it's taken this long for someone to come up with a product that makes it easy...almost fun to floss your teeth and gums. Those little floss-picks are okay but they have short handles that come off one side so you're limited as to how you can angle them. The Reach Access Daily Flosser has a toothbrush-length handle and it's centered on the flossing-part which makes it much easier to manuever. I may give up writing and just sit here and floss all day. This website will tell you more about it and there's even a coupon there for a buck off, which isn't bad because this wonderful invention sells for around five dollars...and that includes 21 replacement heads. I'd tell you more about it but I have to go floss.

[VITAL UPDATE: Here's a link to sign up for a free Reach Access Daily Flosser sample pack. What more could a person want?]

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Recommended Reading

Here's Fred Kaplan on what's going on in Fallujah. And here's Timothy Noah on a possible future for Iraq that would probably cause even more unrest than bringing Saddam back.

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The Reason You Bought a DVD Player

Here for your purchasing pleasure is an Amazon link to pre-order the forthcoming DVD set of Garfield and Friends, a cartoon show I wrote back in my younger days. (I never quite understood that phrase, "younger days." What you did yesterday was done on a "younger day"...but let's not spoil a shameless plug with logic.) This set, which will be out near the end of July, includes 24 half-hour episodes of the most enjoyable experience I ever had in television. I'd like to think it shows. The set includes but one measly extra — the trailer for the live-action/CGI movie — but why do you need extras when you have twelve hours of jokes about eating lasagna, kicking puppies off the table, sleeping and mailing cute kittens to Abu Dhabi? A second volume of 24 more shows is tentatively set for release in time for Christmas and I'll probably harangue you about ordering it, too.

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