http://www.explodingplate.com An Effigy to All Your Junk Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:20:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Introducing the Nokia 6103: [caption id="attachment_20" align="alignnone" width="281" caption="The Nokai 6130 - when you tried to take a picture"][/caption] Do not accept this telephone as a free gift for joining any cell-phone company! Do not accept it as a free gift for renewing your contract. My wife and I were quite pleased when we ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=18 I thought it was cool that my friends and I randomly chose the same dishwasher. It was the Maytag Quiet Series 100. A couple months later when my friends' dishwasher was already breaking down, I thought it was only because they had four kids in their family, and ended up ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=11 Unrequited Consumerism: that's what this site is really all about. It's about the obsession that we Americans have for our products. We love them. We buy them. We can't live without them. Every gadget and gizmo, every little trinket. Some of us buy them ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=7 How many circles do you suppose one can make from an inexpensive school-kid's compass these days? Well, we found out. Apparently only six. Yep, that's all six of them there. Count them. My daughter likes to point out that some of them are not complete and shouldn't count as circles at ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=8 A special thanks to Tom Kyte who is generously letting me use his photo of his exploding plate here on my site. You see I'm not the only one who has a problem with plates exploding. Unfortunately, when my own plate exploded I was so upset I didn't take a photo. - Basil http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=5 What's the deal with cell phones these days? I had mine for six months and camera stopped working. Another couple of months and the front screen stopped working. One day my wife calls me on the office phone at work and asks: why'd you turn off your cell phone ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=4 It was 7:37 AM on a Thursday morning. Thursday, October 20th to be exact. I was sitting down to eat breakfast: two nice shiny eggs, sunny-side up. I took a bite, and the yellow juice oozed out all over my plate. I took a second bite, was ... http://www.explodingplate.com/?p=3