Your weekend hangover image
Anyone know how to reverse hack Flickr links like this to see more from whoever made this… please comment.
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Feeling mortal? Have a COOOKIE!
According to New Scientist, people with low self esteem who ponder death feel compelled to eat cookies and shop.
Smeesters found that people with low self-esteem shop and eat more after watching death-related news clips.
“One would hope that companies do not exploit this by putting food ads straight after the news,” Smeesters says.
One would also [...]
Extreme Dwarfism
Jyoti, all 1 foot and 11 inches of her, goes to a regular school (her classmates, pictured above) and sits at a custom-built little desk. And she’s recording a rap album later this year. Lots more pics at the link. Spread the Jyoti love.
via DGSF Patrick
Masturbation, She Wrote
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Yeah. No joke. That’s Angela Lansbury. If you’re impatient, fast forward to 2:50. Via Everything is Terrible.
Monkey Terminator
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Article and more video (don’t miss! the monkey manipulates the arm so he can lick the fingers):
In a dramatic display of the potential of prosthetic arms, a monkey at the University of Pittsburgh was able to use his brain to directly control a robotic arm and feed himself a marshmallow. The research, published [...]
Stuff On My Lab Coat
Forget where this came up, but it reminded me how awesome the folks at Improbable Research are. Above, from awhile back, is a pic from a project that studied how cats are indifferent to bearded men. More recent topics include: Suggestions for the most plagiarized project, the Swedish Crisp Bread Salivation Limerick Competition, and the [...]
Balloon Twister CIVIL WAR
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From a NYT article:
“Twisted: A Balloonamentary” examines the world of professional balloon twisters, who make everything from life-size racing cars to their own wedding dresses. It also exposes the rift — who knew? — between the “gospel twisters,” who use their craft as a way to teach Bible lessons, and the “adult” twisters, [...]
Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Lei Rodriguez lives in Miami, and that’s appropriate, because you can feel the oppressive heat of rioting vegetation in her work. Gorgeous stuff—feels like being in a jungle that doubles as a strip joint, or being in Buffalo Bill’s house, if he ran the Little Shop of Horrors. More works:
Bald Eagles Has a Flickr.
Last seen in the premier arts/comics crossover anthology, Kramers Ergot, Victor Cayro, aka BALD EAGLES has a web presence again for the first time since ilovevictorcayroandhiscomics.com expired a while back. BALD EAGLES’ obsessive-compulsively detailed imagery, like a melding of S. Clay Wilson, Geoff Darrow & Brian Chippendale, is often auto-biographical in its’ focus- Cayro [...]