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Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
From Inhabitat: Artist Brandon Jon Blommaert's recycled trash robots (yes, they're real sculptures) lay waste to Photoshopped landscapes. Check out his flickr page for more - and a "making of" series of photos showing how he built these steampunky...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conspicuous consumption
Scoville Foods has created periodic-table inspired packaging for its line of hot sauces - complete with a "Scoville unit" rating system. Check out this tasty pseudoscience: Now, we are very pleased to introduce our hottest sauces: OTC and OTC...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:15 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Lovely minimalist poster design from Jordan Michael Gray's flickrstream. via NOTCOT....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Apparently package delivery service Sedex Express is quite similar to "your brain on drugs."
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:38 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
It commemorates Hans Christian Ørsted, who discovered the relationship between electricity and magenetism. Re-enact Ørsted's experiment here. But what about that other Hans Christian, Hans Christian Andersen? Here's what the Guardian had to say: "while there's nothing wrong with...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Japanese artist Kawano Takeshi's 2007 rendition of global warming is simple, a little funny, and a lot sad. For another version of the same theme - using a real child's toy - check out Ours (the Bear), a video...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:16 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conspicuous consumption
Reader Mike sent me the link to this Coke commercial a while ago. I love the exasperated brain pulling himself around - he's like a mob boss driven crazy by his stupid henchmen. Their other ads aren't quite as...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conspicuous consumption
If anything can put you off bacon, this awesome vintage French ad will! While the ad appears bizarre to us today, it makes sense in a different social context - one in which animals exist primarily to serve human needs,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:30 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
The "gastronomical cocktail" called "sex on a drip" is just one reason to hop a plane to Singapore and visit The Clinic, a theme restaurant that's probably not for the squeamish. Their website boasts, "Clinic's unique alfresco is easily identified...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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