First Idea: The Future

• Talking and texting on cell phones are like smoking used to be, rude, dirty habits that damage not only you but the people around you. 
• Negative thoughts are like drinking, you are toxic if you have a bad attitude as it infects everyone around you and brings them down. You're given attitude adjustment tests and thrown in the attitude tank to sober up. It's hard for the elderly to adjust so the kids just laugh off their cranky attitudes.
• Labels are everywhere, people get paid for mentioning brand names in everyday conversation.
• A ghostwriter works on the sixth novel of a series of three by a famous author who has since died.

Min is a glass of oily cheese

Salmon Rushdie's new squeeze got a plateful of comparisons with his previous helpings of eye candy, although most commentors thought of her as more of a side dish:

From RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is brie; Pia is Kraft singles; Min is the glass of oil that they show you on the Kraft singles commercial to describe the contents of inferior brands' single-wrapped slices.
The-Littlest-Hobo:
Padma is Diamond Dave. Pia is Sammy Hager. Min is Gary Cherone.
Jackie Olive:
Padma is Krug; Pia is Veuve Clicquot; Min is Bud Light
girlymag:
Padma is Pulp Fiction. Pia is Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. Min is Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is Morticia; Pia is Debbie; Min is Margaret
Steverino Begins:
Padma is Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted; Pia is Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider; Min is Angelina Jolie's assistant for Kung Fu Panda.
girlymag:
Padma is Midnight's Children. Pia is The Satanic Verses. Min is Grimus
mattchew03:
Padma is Butterfly Mariah Carey; Pia is E=MC2 Mariah Carey; Min is Charmbracelet Mariah Carey.
mattchew03:
Padma is Dom Pérignon; Pia is Korbel; Min is André Cold Duck.
Conchie Birdie:
Padma is Stella; Pia is PBR; Min is Keystone Ice.
BookishLookish:
Padma is Chanel No. 5; Pia is Poison; Min is Wind Song.
misslinda:
Padma is Blanche, Pia is Dorothy, and Min is Rose in the middle of a story about St. Olaf.
Steverino Begins:
Padma is Home Alone; Pia is Home Alone 2; Min is Home Alone 3 direct to video.
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is Matchbox, Pia is Hot Wheels and Min is Tootsie Toys
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is Jessica Rabbit; Pia is Jane Jetson; Min is Daffney Gillfin.
Steverino Begins:
Padma is Chrissy; Pia is Cindy; Min is Terri's body double.
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is Sesame Street; Pia is Zoom; Min is The New Zoo Review
Steverino Begins:
Padma is lie; Pia is lay; Min is have lain.
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is Darth Vader; Pia is Greedio; Min is Salacious Crumb
RollsRoyceRevenge:
Padma is the Chrysler Building; Pia is Trump Tower; Min is the Mariott Marquis
FriendlyFloyd:
Padma is a Enzo Ferrari; Pia is a Lexus LS400; Min is a Pontiac Aztek.
jrhys:
Padma is Marsha, Pia is Jan, Min is Oliver.

What I learned today

• It takes 8 lightning bolts to take down a 7-foot monster.
• VirtualBox, by Sun Microsystems, is a popular free virtualization technology.
• The Mars Global Surveyor takes nice space pictures.
• Apple Inc. had a great quarter.
• Carbon Nanotubes are similar, but different from Bucky Balls. They can be used to make flexible batteries and give you spider powers, but don't breathe them in! (also on Jalopnik)
• Soon we'll all be carrying our own portable electric Yikes into the office.
• Falcon Heene doesn't know Wolf.
• TV reporters have to deal with a lot of crap behind their backs.
• An irrelevent B-list celebrity thinks an irrelevent A-list celebrity is weird.
• Salmon Rushdie could play Rick in the Broom of the System movie.
• Gawker Media is looking for junior tech writers to berate and enslave.
• There's still a healthy debate about whether the iPhone is a valid business machine or an expensive toy.
• Computer nerds will still waste time making it harder to play geeky Dungeon's and Dragon's games.
• The Ebook reader market will become oversaturated in 2010.
• Apple fanatics will attempt to decode new Mac products based on a leaked list of product codes much like lazy hackers attempt to decode rumored and possibly fake Bill Clinton's private tweets.