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Circuit Bending is the art by which a brave and inquisitive mind, armed only with a soldering iron, components, and old electronics can create weird, wonderful, noisy, and overall disturbing new takes on classic items. The method is, on the whole, incredibly creative and experimental, accomplished via a variety of methods such as introducing variable [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre · Tagged amazingly scary ally, apple alphabent, Barbie Radio, Bob Spong, Childhood, Circuit bending, drumkit, Electronic music, Electronics, fire breathing pony, hardcore xylophone, Legoland Hotel, Music, Noise, Oliver Mason, toy, VTech, Wolf Eyes, youtube
Ah, nothing like a nice recall of millions of toys to completely wreck your corporate reputation. Parents tend to not appreciate when you endanger the lives of their special little snowflakes, you know! And then they tell 20 of their friends how bad your company sucks. Below are the 10 worst toy recalls of recent [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Games · Tagged Australia, barbie, Burger King, Burger King B.V., burns, Childhood, china, comas, Consumer Reports, dangerous lead paint, deadly and illegal lead paint, Easy-Bake Oven, Easy-Bake ovens, eBay, eBay Inc, Entertainment, face lacerations, Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price Inc, Fisher-Price infant toy, Hasbro, human behavior, Inc., infant toy recall involving lead paint, injuries, injury, lead poisoning, Mattel, public relations, seizures, similar products, Sky Dancer, Surgery, teeth lacerations, temporary blindness, toy, Toy safety, toys, United Kingdom, United States, US Consumer Product Safety Commission, USD, Yo-yo
If you work 9 to 5 from Monday to Friday, chances are you eagerly look forward to the weekend. Yet, superstitions from all over the world paint a very different picture. Instead of getting excited as the week days pass by, you should be afraid… very, very afraid. Or at least careful. Some of these [...]
Posted by Tanya Bennett on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Movies · Tagged Al Capone, America, bad day, Bad Dreams, bad idea, casual friday, catholic, child, Childhood, Christian, Christians, countries, Facial hair, Fairies, fridays, happy friday, headaches, Health, holiday weekends, injuries, Irish, Jesus Christ, labor day, memorial day, national safety council, national transportation, Oxford University, pravda ru, supersition, superstitions, Thailand, transportation studies, tupac shakur, wedding
This list encompasses the top 10 hot Christmas toys of all time. When I say ‘hot,’ I mean the ones flying off the shelves, that every kid just HAS to have, the kind of toy that brings out the best in everyone. Kids (and some adults) spend their time feverishly begging and pleading for the [...]
Posted by Tanya Bennett on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Holidays, Shopping · Tagged armored car, Asia, Atari, Atari S.A., Atari Teenage Riot, Australia, average video game player in the U.S., awesome80s.com, Blu-Ray, Bret Easton Ellis, Cabbage Patch Kids, Childhood, Christmas, christmas gifts, christmas season, Coleco, eBay, eBay Inc, encouraged online play, Entertainment, Entertainment Software Association, even President, Frank Black, Furbies, Furby, Game Boy Color, Hasbro, hot christmas gifts, internet access, James Quinn, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Kimmel, Kansas City, Larry Dahl, LTD., marketing, media coverage, media-awareness.ca, Missouri, Newsweek, Nintendo, Nintendo Co., Play Station, Playstation 3, Pong, popular christmas gifts, Potato Head, PS3, Recreation, san francisco, Shopping, shopping frenzy, Snopes.com, St. Louis, Teenager of the Year, Terese Polletti, Tickle Me Elmo, Tiger Electronics, Time Warner Inc., toy history, toy industry, Toy Industry Association, toys, Tyco, Tyco International Ltd., United States, USD, Video game developers, Video game publishers, Waller, Warner Communications, Worcester, Yahoo, youtube, YouTube Inc, Zhu Zhu, Zhu Zhu Pets
Sir Francis Galton coined the term ‘nature vs. nurture’ over 150 years ago, exploring “whether heredity or the environment most impacts human psychological development (behavior, habits, intelligence, personality, sexuality, aggressive tendencies, and so on)” (cliffnotes.com). Those who believe in the nurture part think that humans learn according to how they are taught and what goes [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, People · Tagged abandoned children, Amala, Amala and Kamala, Baraboy Clinic, cambodian jungle girl, child abuse, Childhood, David Rigler, Dina Sanichar, Falgore forest, Feral, Feral child, Feral children, Francis Galton, Galina Volskaya, Genie, Human development, indian wolf boy, John Ssebunya, Joseph Singh, Kamala, Kano, Midnapore, Midnapore,West Bengal,India, Molly Wasswa, Mowgli, nature nurture, nature vs nurture, Nigeria, nigerian chimp boy, Nigerian forest, Oxana Malaya, Paul Wasswa, People, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, potty chair, raised by wolves, Rochom Pn’gien, Rochom Pn’gieng, romanian dog boy, The Jungle Book, Traian Caldarar, Ugandan jungles, ugandan monkey boy, Vanya Yudin, Victor of Aveyron, wild boy of aveyron, Wolf Boy