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‘Introducing’ The Hammer

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All my sextoys are dying of envy. Or maybe just me.

The Hammer is the name of this amazing rainbownish device that reacts to pressure, orgasming colors in response. Such a great opportunity for doing your Kegels! It was created by Kristen Stubbs and it is part of what I missed not attending Arse Elektronika last year. Shame on me, but glory on Dr. Stubbs. She has this sex/kink-positive crowfunding initiative, Passionate Produce, which seems quite exciting.

[visto en boingboing]

de la utilidad de las encuestas

“Facts are stubborn things.” -Ronald Reagan

Dear Voter,

Whether you’re Democrat or Republican, you’ve probably grown weary of the endless circus that is the electoral process. It is painful. But it shouldn’t be that way. As a member of a free democratic state you should feel exhilarating pleasure when exercising your right to choose your leader.
Grand Old Party demonstrates that as a people united, our opinion has real volume. When we approve of a candidate, they swell with power. When we deem them unworthy, they are diminished and left hanging in the wind. We guard the gate! It opens and closes at our will. How wide is up to us.
In an age of information, we rely on hard facts. Each of the shapes you see here come directly from poll data collected by Gallup. This data reflects approval ratings for each GOP candidate among regis- tered Republican voters from December 10, 2011 to April 1, 2012. Each shape’s girth is a reflection of popularity while their height is a reflection of time.*
The contours of these delightful shapes conjure up the waves of amber grain and those lapping at the rim of our great nation spanning from sea to shining sea. As the battle for the Presidency rails on, we must remember that Americans may have achieved freedom through war, but they are also a people of love. After all, in the end all we have is each other.

[Matthew Epler, "Grand Old Party"]

Esto debiera ser el non plus ultra del deseo concedido: plugs anales que han sido modelados en base a las encuestas de candidatos republicanos que querían/quieren competir contra Obama en las próximas elecciones. Las fluctuaciones son las que han producido esas formas que tan buen uso pueden tener. Data Visualization + juguetes sexuales, qué más podría pedirse. Pero lo que me molesta es el subtexto, que pretende ser insultante, supongo. Sería lindo que otras situaciones de la vida dieran como resultado formas introducibles. Pero bueno, que nadie me lo está preguntando.

Más info acá.

La montaña mágica

Julijonas Urbonas, estudiante de doctorado en Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, UK, diseñó esta montañana rusa que podría ser la solución perfecta para terminar con la propia vida de manera eufórica.

Primero, en el largo ascenso, tienes tiempo para reconsiderar tu vida completa (bueno, brevemente), y la decisión que tomaste. Cuando llegas arriba, si no has cambiado de opinión, te lanzas en una caída eufórica donde la palabra mortal (detalles aquí) no es sólo un superlativo, y luego de la cual habrás tenido la oportunidad de terminar tu vida con un estilo imbatible que los nietos de tus nietos comentarán. No tan mal, cierto?

via kottke

Algo que vive para siempre

Planarians, o gusanos planos, pueden vivir para siempre. El truco es regeneración perpetua, de cualquier órgano, incluido el cerebro. Y la clave estaría en la telomerasa. Esto se da en organismos que se reproducen sexual y asexualmente, aunque con variaciones en la actividad de esa enzima. Es particularmente extraño porque el sexo y la muerte fueron inventados al mismo tiempo, y no es (sólo) literatura.

El paper completo está acá, aunque yo lo ví en io9.

In a Technical Sense.

Indicators of Sexual Arousal. During the interval when the reels changed, Dr Nathan noticed that Trabert was peering at the photographs pinned to the windshields of the crashed cars. From the balcony of his empty office Catherine Austin watched him with barely focused eyes. Her leg stance, significant indicator of sexual arousal, confirmed all Dr Nathan had anticipated of Trabert’s involvement with the events of Dealey Plaza. Behind him there was a shout from the camera crew. An enormous photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy had appeared in the empty rectangle of the screen. A bearded young man with an advanced neuro-muscular tremor in his lower legs stood in the brilliant pearl light, his laminated suit bathed in the magnified image of Mrs Kennedy’s mouth. As he walked towards Trabert across the broken bodies of the plastic dummies, the screen jerked into a nexus of impacting cars, a soundless concertina of speed and violence.

JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

La imagen la robé de acá.

Blade Runner, sketchbook

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