a bold red pout

dinosaur bone iPad only $8 million

As if you need any reminder that your latest expensive Apple gadget will soon be obsolete, we have for you the $8 million dinosaur bone iPad.

This iPad has a 53 diamond encrusted logo on the back and contains shavings of a 65-million-year-old T-Rex thigh bone set into its front frame.  If you have a birthday for a VERY beloved Apple fan coming up soon, you can get one from the designer here.

victoria’s secret model: i can see car people

Sometimes entertainment critics can hit a little below the garter belt.  Apparently, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, the giraffe-legged actress who replaced Megan Fox in the latest Transformers movie, “Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” has been panned by critics for her acting abilities.  For her acting abilities.  In a summer action movie about talking robot-car aliens from outer space.

Ms. Huntington-Whiteley is a Victoria’s Secret model.  She replaced Megan “I was in two movies that people have seen” Fox.  At minimum, all she has to do is show up and avoid tripping on the power cords.

With her modeling experience, she can rock the heck out of a skimpy outfit while rolling around on hard props and maintaining sexy pouty face.  From what I recall of the earlier Transformers movies, those are exactly the skills required of the female lead in this franchise.

An actress with more traditional skills might have been a bit out of place:  “Move the fuzzy bunny a little closer to your butt, Meryl.  Straddle this motorcycle, Meryl.  Say ‘cam shaft…’ ”

“Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon” is not a documentary about aeronautics.  It is a fluffy summer movie to be enjoyed with a giant tub of popcorn and a brain-freezing Icee at your side.  Add butter, enjoy and let the pretty talking girls do their thing!

where are my thin mints?

Call it a sixth sense but I’ve been starting to get the itch lately for Girl Scout cookies.  Every year I seem to miss the ordering season and watch my co-workers hungrily as they receive their deliveries.  “Oh yeah, Walt was taking orders a couple weeks ago for his daughter.  You missed it.”  Argh.

Thin Mints account for >25% of cookies sold each year

This year I decided to be pro-active.  I walked right up the guy who had taken orders for his daughter last year and declared I was ready to pledge my support to the Scouts via dessert acquisition.  Unfortunately this year his daughter wasn’t in Girl Scouts due to the family’s financial situation.  No Scouts for her, no cookies for me.  Disappointment all around.

Selling girl scout cookies back in the day

In New York, we are doubly cookie-challenged.  City parents don’t usually allow their offspring to loiter in front of grocery stores soliciting customers.  Most Manhattan-ites don’t even have kids, moving to Brooklyn or out of New York entirely when they decide to spawn and leave the “Sex and the City” lifestyle behind.  This leaves many co-workers and neighbors who are twenty or thirty-something professionals, child-free and thus disconnected from the green cookie-fairy network.

If you find yourself likewise isolated from a good supplier of Thin Mints and other Girl Scout goodies, you can get your cookie on  here .