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 hope that they’d wake up one morning to a gold helicopter stuffed with video games and Cheetos, but like, guess what…ain’t gonna happen.

If we had  “mood” settings on posts, half the time mine would read “Mood: Christopher Lambert.” (the other half it’d read “Mood:Brandon Lee”)

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Palazzo’s much more the street-style guy than me, but Boico gives notice that Sixpack, the French streewear label, has new t-shirts on their site. Designed by people like Laurent Fetis and Akroe and Gaspard from Justice who have made Paris the place you gotta be if wanna get serious about having a band & designing shirts & appearing on Facehunter. Image above from Gaspard’s design for Sixpack.

The intellectual giants over at Your Nutz are offering classic accessories for guys who honestly think that their truck offers the most convincing case for their virility. And the state of Virginia is trying to ban them! Don’t those congressmen know that freedom of expression takes many forms? Besides, testicles that hang off your license plate merely follows a long line of powerful, radical gestures like Calvin peeing on crappy Japanese-made trucks. Lend your voice to disabled, war-supporting pricks everywhere!

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So apparently this is old, but through Art or Idiocy? I just learned of theses figurines on sale through the National Gallery. Taken from Bosch’s genius painting, “The Last Judgment.”

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