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Cautionary Tales Hints & Tips Weirdness

Light my fire

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Oh I love these kind of stories. As teenagers, my sister and I used to take great delight in combing magazines and newspapers (this was long before the interweb) for grotesque Agony Aunt columns and weird stories of sexual misadventure, revenge or jealousy that ended in disaster. You know the ones that go something like “woman bites off lover’s tongue in passionate embrace”, or “Dear Aunt Rhoda my girlfriend says she can’t love me anymore because I have genital warts”, that sort of thing. The whole Bobbitt episode kept us laughing for months. Well I’m not sure if I exactly love this particular story because someone actually dies, however it is morbidly fascinating nonetheless.

An Australian woman has been arrested and is going to be charged with murder after she doused her sleeping husband’s penis with something like metholated spirits and set it on fire. The unfortunate man allegedly woke up and knocked the bottle of meths over which helped the fire to spread rapidly from his privates to engulf the couple’s entire residence. As you may have guessed, Mr Crispy was cheating on his wife, and unluckily for him she found out and sought her fiery revenge. The fire starter has issued a statement saying that it was not her intention to kill her husband, all she wanted to do was claim his penis as hers only and forever by horribly disfiguring it!

This burning issue courtesy of the Daily Express.

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Hints & Tips Science & Technology

Stressed and traumatised?

Experiencing post traumatic stress? Get yourself in front of a computer and indulge in the universally played and consistently mind numbing game Tetris.

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Researchers in the UK are suggesting that playing Tetris may help in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr Emily Holmes of Oxford University says that she “wanted to find a way to dampen down flashbacks – the raw sensory images of trauma that are over-represented in the memories of those with PTSD”. According to Dr Holmes, playing Tetris effectively prevents flashbacks and thus helps heal posttraumatic stress – other scientists are unconvinced. More on this from theĀ  BBC.

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Mindlessness

The International Magazine for Amphibiaphiles

via B3ta.

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Mindlessness Video Clips

The Does-Nothing-o-Matic

Some people have too much free time on their hands. Watch as one action leads to another, and another, and another…

It’s an example of a Rube Goldberg machine – an extremely complex apparatus that performs a very simple, very easy task in an indirect and convoluted way – thanks MaXiM.

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Animal Kingdom Weirdness

Kinky Beasties

I don’t know about you, but to me, one of the best things about pets like cats and dogs is their cuddly furriness. For allergy sufferers however this cuddly yumminess results in a rather unattractive and unfortunate mien of red swollen eyes and a nasty streaming nose. However help is at hand…some enterprising (if that’s a strong enough word) people have taken the time and effort to breed dogs especially for this sniffly lot. The American Hairless Terrier is touted as a perfectly hypo-allergenic dog.

The poor (but still cuteish) beasties look quite naked, and appear to be super high maintenance – needing baths several times a week, applications of skin lotion (lanolin free ONLY!), sunscreen whenever they are outside, and clothes to protect them from the cold. Yikes you might as well have a baby! The up-side is of course no allergic reactions but also I guess no fur equals no fleas, and there’ll also be no need to vacuum pounds of dog hair off your living room every couple of days.

In case you’re interested, you can read more about these kinky beasts at several dog oriented sites including naked heart and dog breed info.

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Flash Games

Black Knight Chess

Black Knight is an isometric chess-based game where you play solely as the black knight. Your mission is to kill the bastardly white king and reach the star and get to the next level. Laying between you and your objective are random chess pieces that protect his royal whiteness and will try to kill you.

Play Black Knight Chess at Armor Games.

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Mindlessness

La Marijuana

Found at We Heart It.

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Awesomeness

Socks Anatomy

How cool are these socks?

Designed by Anton Repponen.

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Arty Weirdness

The Odd Works of Candice Tripp

According to her bio, Candice Tripp was born a man in South Africa, but left the country to become a minger and spoon designer in the UK. Her art was cultivated in a home for orphaned wolves and seeks to capture the unity in ideologies between Star Trek’s Spock and the modern musical philosopher, Enya.

Her 24 year old’s art is altogether quite odd. See below – click the images to see them bigger.

See more of her work at candicetripp.com – via Neatorama.

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Arty Inspirational Designs

Awesome Bookshelf Designs

Tired of your traditional bookselves? Check out some of these moderm creative designs from around the world.

Polar Bear Shelf

Unsurprisingly the Polar Bear Shelf is a bookshelf shaped like a polar bear.

Unusually Beautiful

Russian designer Maria Yasko used nature as the inspiration for her shelf designs.

See more designs after the jump.