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I have posted a four-star review of Top Gear Stig Body Wash over on Amzon UK.

All Hail the Mighty Stig,

“Some say he's hollow, and that if you tip him upside-down and shake him a clear scented gel comes out. All we know is he's called ‘The Stig’.”

The Stig was a Christmas present from my dear wife. He stands approximately 28cm high, which is considerably smaller than I had expected from seeing him on the telly. At first I thought one had to slowly unscrew his head, but after some small experimentation I found that his entire head can be simply pulled off, helmet intact. On first use I spent some time shaking him upside-down expecting Ben Collins to fall out, but thankfully this didn't happen. Instead a clear, citrus scented gel emerged in short, uncontrollable bursts similar to those experienced when driving American muscle cars. This appears to be due to the small diameter neck through which the gel must be squeezed. For future production runs I suggest that modelling American Stig would solve this small design defect.

The Stig Body Wash experience is marred only by Stig's dark visored, unwavering gaze as one wipes his gelatinous goop over one's warm, wettened flesh. This is the stuff nightmares are made of, worse even than being trapped at a celebrity dinner with nobody but Jeremy Clarkson for converstation.

This makes an excellent gift for the man in your life that you have given up trying to find a real present for.

Some dude named Jérôme has blogged about the Ryno electric unicycle. Unicycle does not even begin to describe how truly awesome this thing is. At an estimated USD 3500 I'd think hard about getting one. Go look.

The Shark Tank blog at Computerworld has an excellent, albeit slightly apocryphal, story about what to do if your business won't give you any requirements.

"Doing my best due diligence, I went from one department head to the next, pen and paper in hand, and asked each one for specific ideas of what they wanted," says fish.

"Each of them responded the same: 'I dunno, put something together and then we'll tweak it.'"

Undaunted, fish goes to potential users in each department, asking for input. But apparently they're all close studies of their bosses. Fish keeps hearing the same thing: "Put something together and we'll figure it out from there."

What would you do?

UPDATE 24/09/10: Spelling.

Seen on a company chat group. Names changed to protect the pathetic:

Person A: freedom is choise,,
06:37 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: nice.. " choise " -- got your glasses on person a? just kiddin..
06:39 PM - Jun 14 - reply

Person A: choice.. don't be mean!
06:46 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: huh?! whose mean?
10:01 PM - Jun 14 - reply

First rule of Pendant Club; You're an idiot.