Yes and no...though it's shared with the IPCC and they certainly deserve it, so I don't find much point in discussing whether he deserves it or not.

Twitchings, you mean you didn't lose all respect for the Nobel Society when Mother Theresa won the peace prize? By comparison this is nothing.

You disagree? Okay, then you kind of missed the point. Contacts aren't body modification, these guys are into body modification hence contacts would've been rather beside the point. If they wanted a temporary thing even then I'm not sure they'd opt for contacts. This isn't really about putting blue ink into the eye, it's about trying something (relatively) new and prooving it can be done. Nor is it about how it looks (though, taste is subjective). If you actually bothered to read the article you would've read about what precautions they took and that they were quite aware of the risks involved. These weren't three bored teenagers sitting around and on a moment's whim decided to tattoo their eyes, quite the opposite.

Beside that though, done correctly under sterlie circumstances (in other words, with proper equipment and in a clean environment) the actual risk of blindness is rather slim. The eye is more resiliant than you may think and also heals quite fast when it comes to minor invasions such as this.

So perhaps, before passing judgement you could actually try to understand why they did this instead of obviously just looking at a bunch of pictures and saying it's idiotic, not to mention do your research.

"How about using the needle to slice the banana with a rigth and left motion? I have to try this."

Yes, that's a much easier and more effective way to do this. Not to mention that you can pierce different places around the banana so it could look like normal spots instead of dotted rings all around the banana. Doing it with thread just takes longer and gives you a sh****er result.

Yeah, these were really common a few decades ago but has become an item of obscurity lately. Would be pretty neat to see them making a comeback though, especially in this day and age of electronic devices inside everything. Lowtech 4 life!

Paul, why would he never get another job? Just because one has facial tattoos does not mean that you're destined for unemployment the rest of your life. On the one side there are people who are actually cognitively able to discern between a person, his or her abilities and how that person chooses to look. Then there's also self employment, or quite possibly having enough money so none of this actually matters. Obvious statements? Not at all. Just not very thought through statements.

Sallie, that's very mature of you. Sure it's up to taste, but why call someone an idiot simply for the reason that he chooses to tattoo himself in a less than conventional (for westerners at least) place? He may or may not be an idiot, but I'd personally take being an idiot any day over being a narrow minded bigot.