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Insomnia Illustrated

Insomnia Illustrated
Christoph Niemann’s Has a series illustrations up in the New York Times themed upon his inability to sleep. It makes some sense. If you find that you can’t sleep you may as well think about and then illustrate the reasons why this could be. The results charmingly evoke the familiarity of late night (or early morning) frustrations from sleep deprivation. We’ve all been there. [New York...
Posted by on Aug 12th, 2009 | 0 comments

Being a hipster is bad for you.

Being a hipster is bad for you.
ABC News (of all places) has some content you should really check out for the sake of the beloved hipster in your life. Skinny jeans are apparently (and medically) bad for you. Ugly boots can be damaging to your feet. Even that over-sized purse can be harmful. Clearly its time to either suffer for your (lack of) fashion, or really re-think your life choices here. In short: Check yourself before you wreck yourself...
Posted by on Jul 22nd, 2009 | 0 comments

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,...
Posted by on Jul 10th, 2009 | 0 comments

Boodbath & The great beyond

Boodbath & The great beyond
If you find that your clean white bathroom to be disappointingly free of suggestions of murder and not looking enough like a crime scene you can now lay your mind at ease. Why go through the trouble of seducing a house guest and brutally murdering them in the shower just to accomplish that certain rouge aesthetic? Now you can get this Blood Bath Shower Curtain and Bath mat to satisfy your most Hitchcockian urges...
Posted by on Nov 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

Blockhead

Neil Fraser has taken nine specifically spaced cross sections from an MRI brain scan then affixed portions to corresponding 1″ wooden cubes to create a three dimensional model representing the whole head. The result is a combination of puzzle and visualization tool, allowing one to explore the head in three dimensions very flexibly and turns medical visualization in to a toy. It may not be as useful for...
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