"Sea-Monkeys, do monkeys / Story of my life / Send three bucks to a comic book / Get a house, car and wife"—Liz Phair, “Gunshy"

In a 2002 interview with Erik Lobo of Planet X magazine, Harold von Braunhut comes across as the kind of charming old guy who might detain you in conversation a bit too long if you were volunteering at a home for the aged. An inventor and entrepreneur who brought us legions of wonderfully gimmicky toys before he died, at 77, in 2003, von Braunhut holds forth about times gone by, interrupted only when his cockatoo chews at the wire connecting his hearing aid [...]

Good news, everybody: Sea Monkeys are back! If you've been longing to brighten your life with a collection of dessicated brine shrimp you won't be disappointed. There's even a fancy new website which "allows users to customize their own Sea-Monkeys tank and share it with friends through social networking interaction." It's like Facebook for Sea Monkeys! Or something. Anyway, between this and recent advances in the patented "see through clothes" technology behind X-Ray Specs, the future we were promised seems to have finally arrived!