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...dashing intergalactic warriors go, the Butt-Ugly Martians have their shortcomings. There's the discipline thing - the Martians may have been sent by their evil ruler to conquer the earth, but they took the assignment so they could bliss out on the planet's junk food and video games. There's the brains thing - the Martian perspective on life can be dim, dumb and completely impervious to logic. And finally, there's the looks thing: the Butt-Uglies have blue skin, big teeth, and bulging, bug eyes...
...jammed with toys and kitschy knickknacks and surrounded by a cactus garden he planted himself. "It's sad-scary. Even telling you this, you're thinking, 'Funny and colorful.' No. It's scary," he says. He's going to take it apart, get rid of all the junk, de-Pee-wee it, maybe make it a place for an adult. Then again, with all his other projects, he might not get around...
...Site Seeing Choose Your Virtual Weapon The U.S. TV show BattleBots, which last week started a run in the U.K., has a loyal cadre of fans who tune in to watch homemade robots slug it out until one of them is reduced to a pile of junk. Now BattleBots the website (www.battlebot.com) lets you put together a virtual robot, adding a tank tread here, a sawblade there, to see how it might look in action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first...
...time in which people could pursue their own ends and establish the success of the enterprise. Of course, many of these trailblazers viewed laws and morals as mere distractions and acted accordingly. Nevertheless, cowboys proved that moving west was worthwhile, and in the go-go '80s, bankers proved that junk bonds were highly profitable...
...didn't admit to seeing, was mounting evidence that online ads just don't work as well as their offline counterparts. Few people are clicking on those flashy top-of-the-page banners--0.01% of viewers in recent studies, compared with 0.06% a couple of years ago. Heck, even junk mail gets a 1%-to-2% response rate...