I usually leave it to Eliot Gelwan to keep up with the New Scientist, but I wish I had found this earlier: New Scientist has a Father’s Day gift-buying guide called No More Socks. It’ll probably be replaced by the time you read this post, but I think they have other seasonal buying guides. Here’s their top recommendation for Father’s Day 2005: toy germs.

Giant Microbes
They’ve been in this slot before… but just as all viruses and bacteria are apt to do – they’re multiplying! Now you can get the infectiously cute syphilis variety and more than a few pimples too, not to mention a dose of the Clap. Oh happy days.