I don’t smoke and never will I try it. Or maybe I did once when I was younger but I didn’t like the taste. That is why I don’t understand why there arepeople who still smoke. Like any vice, it is highly addictive. But good news to those want to stop smoking and to those who value their loved ones, there is now an alternative to cigarette: the SuperSmoker Cigarette.
Here are some features of the SuperSmoke Cigarette:
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Someone has managed to make this ridiculously looking shades that allegedly “simulates a meditation session via sound and flashing light synched up to the frequency of a relaxing brainwave program.” Seriously it really looks ridiculous. Well that’s what I said earlier didn’t I? Well that’s what I thought the very second I first laid my eyes on it and it still looks ridiculous up to now and it’s gonna stay ridiculous, I guess, for the rest of my life, every time I see it. You know what’s not ridiculous? Instead of making one like this which I forgot to mention, they say is “relatively quick and easy build using a MiniPOV kit,” why not lick some acids off those paper As that was so 70’s decades ago. See that mosaic-like pattern on that ridiculous lens of that ridiculous shades? You get the same effect when trippin’ on As minus looking ridiculous. And as they say then and as they will say now, hippie is cool and that pair of shades is definitely NOT cool, just ridiculous. Peace man!
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Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS), or micropsia, is a disorienting neurological condition which affects human visual perception. It is the reverse of macropsia. For example, a family pet, such as a dog, may appear the size of a mouse, or a normal car may look shrunk to scale.
Subjects perceive humans, parts of humans, animals, and inanimate objects as substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object perceived appears far away or extremely close at the same time. This leads to another name for the condition, Lilliput sight or Lilliputian hallucinations, named after the small people in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The condition is in terms of perception only; the mechanics of the eye are not affected, only the brain’s interpretation of information passed from the eyes.
In The Guardian, Rik Hemsley describes life with the spatial distortions of Alice In Wonderland Syndrome. From his essay:
When it first happened, I was a 21-year-old undergraduate. I had been up late the night before writing my dissertation and drinking a lot of coffee, but on that particular morning I was stone cold sober and hangover-free. I stood up, reached down to pick up the TV remote control from the floor and felt my foot sink into the ground. Glancing down, I saw that my leg was plunging into the carpet. It was a disturbing sensation, but it lasted only a few seconds, so I put it down to over-tiredness and forgot all about it.
It wasn’t long, however, before I started experiencing more extreme spatial distortions. Floors either curved or dipped, and when I tried walking on them, it felt as though I was staggering on sponges. When I lay in bed and looked at my hands, my fingers stretched off half a mile into the distance.
[lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk via boingboing.net]
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iStraw is a polycarbonate straw fitted with a special membrane, which uses micro-filtration technology to clean your water rather than expensive and bad tasting water cleaning tablets. It is suitable for personal use to help protect you, your family and friends against water borne bacteria and protozoa that are present in the drinking water and ice of many countries.
[via ThinkGeek]
This actually is a good idea. At just over 30USD which can filter up to 500 liters of water, it’s actually a good deal. The only bad idea is the naming convention of products nowadays. We have the iPhone, iPod, iTouch. But they all come from Steve Job’s company and that’s just fine. But there’s also the iCar, iBike and others which uses ‘i’ like this straw, the iStraw. What’s next? The iEarth, iCondoms or iBong?
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The international conservation group Oceana has issued a report that found levels of mercury in fresh tuna in stores and restaurants across the United States that were as high as those reported yesterday in a New York Times article on tuna sushi sold in Manhattan.
Like those samples tested by The Times, many of the Oceana samples had levels of mercury exceeding those that would allow the Food and Drug Administration to take legal action to remove it from the market.
Mercury is believed to affect neurological development of fetuses and young children. Some studies have suggested it may cause health problems in adults, too. Since 2004, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have recommended that women of child-bearing age and young children eat no more than 12 ounces of fish a week, including no more than 6 ounces of canned albacore tuna, and avoid swordfish, tilefish, king mackerel and shark because they are high in mercury.
Oceana tested samples of fresh tuna, swordfish and tilapia, as well as tuna and mackerel sushi bought in 26 cities and found that the average mercury concentration of tuna steaks in 23 grocery stores was 0.68 parts per million, even higher than the 0.57 parts per million that was the average for tuna sushi that The Times bought in stores. Swordfish levels were even higher; tilapia and mackerel were very low.
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