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Thank the Father it’s Freudian Fridays! In this edition of our weekly psychoanalystical where we turn Sigmund loose all over the fields of contemporary pop culture we’ll be looking at technological doo-dads that are more than they claim to be. Living in a technophilic age as we do, it’s no surprise that the imagery of [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]