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Something spectacular is happening on the Internet these days. People are understanding that it’s ok to laugh at the dark side of current events, no matter how discriminating it is. Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal is someone who understands this all to well. Bilal has locked himself into a room for a month, so people can shoot paintballs at him from ...

  When your method of death has gone down in history to solidify your name into the publics mind, you know you’ve made it. These Marie Antoinette inspired toys are proof that life doesn’t end after death. In fact, sometimes it’s only the beginning.

These Nike kicks might look just like any old pair of sneakers, but you’d be wrong in thinking so. In fact, each of these sneakers is actually a Transformer robot. The set only comes with one shoe at a time and every shoe is for the left foot, so don’t think you can just go walking around in a pair ...

Time to stock up on neon clothes and hairspray. Activision has announced plans for the production of a third installment to the popular Guitar Hero series of games with Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80’s. So far the game is only said to be for PS2, but really little is actually known in the first place.i A few songs have already ...

If I were to live in the world of social communities, I would reside on the border of Last.fm and Flickr, with a summer home in WoW. This geographical depiction of the most popular of social networks is a fun and playful ode to Web 2.0. The “Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest”, as it is titled, ...

What’s Apple gonna do with all that junk? All that junk in the next gen iPod’s trunk! I’ll tell you exactly what Apple is going to do. They’re going to drive us all crazy with the suspense until it’s released. A newly released patent suggests that the next iPod release will have a touch surface on its backside, with the ...

Let’s be realistic. If you’re sitting in front of a computer screen all day, chances are that your insides are slowly becoming a gelatinous blob of what use to be considered muscle. The Muscle Suit promises to increase the average human strength by using a cyborg exoskeleton. Soon, we too will have a chance to compete in strongest man competitions. ...

Haha, bad grades are so funny. As long as they aren’t our own bad grades. Let us all laugh at this kid’s D- paper. HA…HA. Giggling aside, these Comic Book Bubble Paper Clips are really friggen cool. The traditional paper clip gets a shakeup with its bubble design, like which is used for comic book dialog. Bad grades are funny ...

The on-going project by Howard Hallis, entitled The Picture of Everything, which is an attempt to draw, well, everything, in one large picture, has just gotten another addition added on to its massiveness. This time, Hallis opted to add a section for cartoon characters. This new add-on features, like, totally every major cartoon character ever created. Or at least thats ...

Those of you who live in urban areas will know exactly what we are talking about when we bring up those tree protector cages that cities put up to protect the tree’s precious trunk. Here’s an idea to make these protectors functional for us non-chlorophyll producing beings as well. This mutation on the original protector idea adds a nice little ...