Weekly Roundup: Pharmaceuticals, Technology and a Little Bit of Love

• Why do people think the pharmaceutical industry is sleazy?
• At least it's nothing new.

• If I didn't already take long showers, now I could get a TV in there. I'd actually become a prune.
• I was going to say that since everybody has a little secret desire to be a spy this pen-sized scanner is really cool... but I was so annoyed by the creepy semi-animated girl on their site that I don't like it as much anymore. She looks like those awful investment commercials.

• Oh no, fire at the Palm Jumeirah, where I want to buy my house!

• In happier news, Lovelines (not the Dr. Drew version) is a gorgeous algorithm that collects "loves" and "likes" and "wants" and "dislikes" and "hates" from across the blogosphere and puts them all on a slider for you to play with. It's hard to explain but a little addictive, specially the Pictures tab.