You know, this one?

Here's the consumer version, on sale at Tyson's Corner mall:

This one's controlled with an iPhone app rather than a remote control operating over 802.11, and I have to wonder how hackable it really is, but it's certainly noteworthy.

The way the last couple of weeks have been going, it's a safe bet that you can guess how Friday went. If you guessed 'more dental work', then you hit the nail squarely on the head. It has been two weeks (now a bit more than that) since my root canal, and I had gone back to Family Dentistry to get the molar in question cleaned out, built up, and have a temporary crown installed. Ordinarily, this isn't such a big deal because once the nerve's gone (i.e., post-root canal) you can pretty much dig around inside the tooth …

Babylon-5 will notice the spray bottle's resemblance to a certain ambassador aboard the station.

As for the scent, I'm not much of a fan. It's a bit too musky for my tastes.

Back in 2003, a small group of artists in the state of Rhode Island attempted a daring art hack: They snuck into the Providence Place Mall and hid an apartment in a corner of the parking garage as part of a guerilla documentary they were making on mall life. Michael Townsend and his cohorts, from all reports I've been able to dig up, set up a wall of cinderblocks which blended in with the rest of the structure to hide the 750 square foot chamber. A standard utility door allowed entrance and egress. The interior walls were also plastered and …