We know, returning to work after an all-too-short long weekend leaves you just wanting more time off, but rather than skimming through those pictures you snapped and refusing to get back in the groove, why not force your brain to meditate and release those negative vibes? In an admittedly bizarre how-to guide, the folks over at MAKE have detailed b>Mitch Altman's Brain Machine, which reportedly enables you to slip into deep thought, sleep, or peaceful nirvana by syncing up your brain waves with pulsing lights and sounds. Odd as it may sound, the homegrown trip inducer purportedly utilizes an SLM (Sound and Light Machine) to "phase in new brain states by switching frequencies back and forth." Of course, we're still a bit hesitant to put our retinas at risk in order to legally experience hallucinations, but be sure to hit the read link for the step-by-step guide, and tap the via if you're interested in catching a video before subjecting yourself.

Looks like Mitch Altman might have beaten apple and nintendo.

Brain Machine legally induces mind trip - Engadget

Hari & Parker do Junior Big Brother. Hari and Parker are cute little toys that love to hang around.
They watch and listen – and they look great in a child's bedroom. The cute characters are in fact the speculative instruments of a government campaign to promote and encourage children to commit subtle acts of domestic surveillance.
Hari has a microphone ear and Parker a video-camera nose and fingerprint-scanner paw.

The Hari&Parker brand is instantly recognisable. Their reassuring faces can be found on toys,

"Better be nice to me, or I'll send you to guantanamo..."

The Science of Spying - Part 3

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1970s film explaining how to teach "trainable persons" about sex. NSFW, of course (and you already clicked play, didn't you?)

20 minutes. Of course, I didn't watch all of it.

I have the DVD. It came in a lunchbox.

RE: YouTube - ABC of Sex Education for Trainable Persons (1975)

This incredibly charming little hand-drawn and animated children's story was made by Jon Klassen and Dan Rodrigues, aka Burst of Beaden, as part of The Sheridan College Institute's acclaimed Animation Program

Neat

S y d ' S t a b l e M u l t i p l i c a t i o n S t a b l e - An Eye For Annai

There is looking at life’s debris (see finkbuilt masthead), and then there is encapsulating it in one-inch diameter clear plastic balls and selling it in gumball machines. D.C. junkman/artist Christopher Goodwin does the latter with his wonderful Trashball! project.

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Finkbuilt » Blog Archive » Trashballs!

I work as an assistant librarian at a certain small library attached to a school, and what that currently means is that I've been boxing up books and carrying them away while it gets renovated. While boxing them up, I found this gem:
(Hope this isn't too many images)

Just say "Neeeeeigh!!!"

The most amazing book ever! [56k no] - The Something Awful Forums

JAKARTA, Indonesia: An Indonesian angler caught a fish once thought to have disappeared along with the dinosaurs and held it in a quarantined pool until it died 17 hours later, a biologist said Sunday.

Indonesian fisherman catches ancient fish off Sulawesi island - International Herald Tribune

Saatchi & Saatchi/London has a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. that cleverly employs four dead rock stars – Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer – as Doc Martens endorsers. “We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ ” explains writer Andrew Petch, “and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.” As for the legal implications of enlisting the support of this particular fab four from beyond the grave, Petch says the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.

All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?

The Daily Swarm - Who own your likeness when you kick?

Some people love their laptops more than anything else in the world. Others are sexually aroused by musical instruments or buildings. Experts are trying to understand a bizarre sexual obsession known as objectophilia.

Sandy K.'s relationship to the Twin Towers is somewhat unusual.

If there were only a third tower...

Objectophilia, Fetishism and Neo-Sexuality: Falling in Love with Things - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Nurses are to be replaced by robots. No, really, it is not April Fool’s Day. It is going to happen in a hospital near you. Soon.

Nurses, those caring people who have pulled many a patient back from the brink with their expertise, brow-wiping and tender words, are likely to be replaced soon by yards of wiring, transistors, hydraulics, a motherboard and light-emitting diodes. Enter the Robo-nurse.

I'm surprised we're closer to making robot nurses before sex-droids. Maybe robotics developers are fetishists. Dirty old men will be disappointed.

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