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Open Doors is a neat little Flash game by Kongregate user soapaintnice.
The object of the game is simple: use the arrow keys to move a square box to its destination through a bunch of doors. The trick is, some doors don’t open the way you expect ‘em to.
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Arnold Worldwide ad agency created this cheeky "A World of Beer" flag ads for Sunset Grill and Tap in Allston, Boston – via Ads of the World
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wonder what Mario would look like in real life? Well, thanks to Pixeloo, now we can:
If Mario was real, thas one creepy plumber. Created with Photoshop CS2 and a bunch of random faces pasted over a 3d render of Mario from Nintendo.
Oh, the sacrifices scientists will do for science! University of New Mexico psychologist Geoffrey Miller "tapped the talent" at local gentleman’s club (read: strip club) to find out what factor fertility plays in the showgirls’ income.
Here’s what he found out:
Over two-months, the dancers recorded their menstrual phase, whether they were taking the Pill, and how much they made.
First, the bad news: Birth control pills are a bummer for business. Pill-taking lap dancers, whose fertility is always suppressed, made substantially less money across the board.
Miller can’t say for sure that pheromones make the difference, but the results were interesting. During the most fertile days of their cycle, NON pill-popping lap dancers pulled in nearly twice as much as they made when they were menstruating.
Links: The Loh Down on Science (by Sandra Tsing Loh) | Psychology Today (Photo: rileyroxx [Flickr])
Are you bored? Got nothing to do? If you think that boredom is something to
be avoided – read this. It turns out that boredom may actually be a good thing:
But are we too busy twirling through the songs on our iPods — while checking e-mail, while changing lanes on the highway — to consider whether we are giving up a good thing? We are most human when we feel dull. Lolling around in a state of restlessness is one of life’s greatest luxuries — one not available to creatures that spend all their time pursuing mere survival. To be bored is to stop reacting to the external world, and to explore the internal one. It is in these times of reflection that people often discover something new, whether it is an epiphany about a relationship or a new theory about the way the universe works. Granted, many people emerge from boredom feeling that they have accomplished nothing. But is accomplishment really the point of life? There is a strong argument that boredom — so often parodied as a glassy-eyed drooling state of nothingness — is an essential human emotion that underlies art, literature, philosophy, science, and even love.
"If you think of boredom as the prelude to creativity, and loneliness as the prelude to engagement of the imagination, then they are good things," said Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Sudbury psychiatrist and author of the book "CrazyBusy." "They are doorways to something better, as opposed to something to be abhorred and eradicated immediately."
Here’s an interesting article by Carolyn Y. Johnson for the Boston Globe (kind of long, but if you’re bored reading it, don’t blame me, mmkay?) : Link
Photo: Globe Staff / Yoon S. Byun
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These are artistically arranges snakes in bottles of liquor. People drink this. Really.
Link -Thanks, Peter!
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission seized an unusual cache of vodka at a rattlesnake farm in Palo Pinto County. The 411 bottles each contained not only vodka, but also a ten-inch rattlesnake! Sgt. Charlie Cloud said he’s never seen anything like it.
TABC officials said alcohol containing snakes or scorpions is popular in Asian cultures. An Internet search found operations selling Thai scorpion vodka, cobra whiskey, giant centipede whiskey, herbal gecko lizard wine and Mekong River eel wine.
“It’s very bizarre,” Cloud said. “We learned that these are believed to contain aphrodisiac properties. We heard that some people believe having a venomous animal creates hallucinations.”
TABC agents received a tip several weeks ago and sent an undercover agent to the rattlesnake ranch to purchase the vodka. It wasn’t on display.
“We had to go in and ask for it,” Cloud said.
Bob Popplewell, the owner of Bayou Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch, is expected to face charges of selling alcohol without a permit. Link -via Arbroath
(image credit: TABC)
Member of Parliament Tommy Tabermann has proposed that the four weeks of annual vacation in Finland be expanded to include a 7-day “love vacation” to strengthen relationships.
According to Tabermann, the purpose of such vacations would be to prevent relations from disintegrating and the spouses from drifting apart.
During the seven days, couples could devote themselves to each other ”both at an erotic and emotional level” and ”find their way back to the path of love in order to find the wellspring of love again”.
Some MPs suspected that the proposal might discriminate against single persons, but others said that a love vacation would be the privilege of all, even the singles and the single parents.
The proposal was sent to committee for study. Link -via Boing Boing
