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Those colorful plastic bracelets popularized by Madonna and Avril Lavigne have taken on a risque new twist. The bangles convey a not-so-secret sexual code depending on their color, indicating different levels of intimacy starting from hugs. In a game some kids call Snap, they yank the rubbery bracelets from the wrists of fellow students to indicate which kind of sex they would like to have. Grabbing a red bracelet is asking for a lap dance, for example, and a blue one can mean oral sex. The code has even spread internationally...
Implementing the service should be a snap. Server space just gets cheaper. And the number of broadband homes in the U.S. and Europe will quadruple to 122 million by 2007, according to media-research firm Screen Digest. As for how to cash in, the BBC charter says nothing about having to give away the goods overseas. So while Web viewers in Britain will be able to watch gratis, BBC viewers abroad may have to pay up--assuming the BBC can foil large-scale file swapping. "The government's sure to force them to do this," says Peter White of Rethink...
...capital city, other pillars of the Thaksinomics miracle may be weakening as well. Aggressive lending policies by Thailand's state-owned banks, together with tax breaks to developers, have fueled a Bangkok real estate boom among Thai buyers. But some foreign investors who rushed into Thailand to snap up foreclosed properties after the 1997 crash are now selling, convinced that the market has topped. "Three years ago we had properties on our books that no one would touch," says a Bangkok-based real estate investor. "Now we are getting offers you wouldn't believe. It's a speculators' market...
...Cause if you do, your punch season might be pretty short-lived. Oh, snap...
Lomo ActionSampler 2.0 ($30 at lomography.com). Forget digital. This crazy camera uses good ol’ 45mm film. Four lenses snap in rapid succession to give you four different images on one frame. Cooler than you can imagine—and only...