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Today I saw this amazing art/engineering installation in Liverpool. Basically, they’ve cut a huge circle in the side of a disused building, through concrete and glass alike and hooked it up to a huge kind of pivot thingy that rotates the circular section. It’s pretty stunning and creates loads of optical illusions as it goes round. Well worth a visit if you’re in the area.

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Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson

Stills here.

Find yourself not knowing what all the fuss is about? Perhaps your inferior human brain fail to grasp the complexities of the plot? If so, what better way to have it explained to you than by a machine?Visit this Flash-based Explanation of 2001:A Space Odyssey

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This T-shirt actually detects wireless networks in the area and indicates their strength to anyone looking at your (man-)boobs. Rush to Think Geek to be the best dressed nerd at your local. Plus, if you’re in a strange boozer somewhere and baulk at the social contact involved in asking whether there’s a Wi-Fi network available, you can just look at your own glowing chest!

Grecian Formula
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Unlike women’s hair dye (and why are they separate products?) and “Just For Men”, Grecian 2000 only sells one colour/type. I cannot understand how it knows what colour to die the grey hair, but it does. Magic?

Male nipple on flickrUseless Body Parts “From wisdom teeth to ear muscles to male nipples, the human body has a number of “useless” parts. Check out these anatomical extras that humans still have but no longer need.”

Photo by schoschie