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Time: for poor people.

Some people think that telling the difference between day and night would be one of the easiest things you could do and being able to afford a $300 000 a mere piece of jewelry would be one of the hardest. This watch is not for them. Behold the Day & Night watch by Romain Gerome.  For those who see telling the time as a peasants hobby and for whom it is always spend o’clock.  It originally sold for...

Pantone Wedding 2010

If  you’re planning a wedding and arbitrarily picking out ugly colours for your bridesmaids’ dresses is too inaccurate and random for you, fret not. Pantone has released a wedding colour guide (specifically for 2010) to help you through this process. These aren’t your normal colours either. These are wedding colours so you know you’re on the right track. Don’t you dare try using them...

Creative Comic Cover Conversion

Cliff Chiang has a series of illustrations mashing-up classic album cover art with comic art. He does a lot of other stuff too but theres just something about this series of 12″ remix drawings that really strike a nerve. Keep going Cliff, we want to see more! This idea has legs. [Cliff...

Posh Pork Product

Do you like to eat? Do you like to spend? Do you like to combine these hobbies? Well feast (pun intended) your eyes and potentially your wallet on the world’s “most expensive” leg of ham! Selfridges’ Oxford Street flagship shop is hocking it (again, pun intended) for a modest £1,800 for the full seven kilograms. What makes this ham so expensive? Well Pig farmer and “ham expert”...

The Neuroscience of McGriddles

Sometimes you crave a McGriddle but rationally know you shouldn’t be having one. Don’t worry though. This is natural. Well, your craving is. Not the McGriddle. It just manipulates your nature. Deep down you want to be fat. You like being fat. You’re only human. Its, to paraphrase, “a side effect of human evolution” that you crave the McGriddle and even if it didn’t make you fat,...
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