Tocky, pictured here [click on the image to see Tocky in action], is the new advanced-engineering sibling of Clocky, the alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday. Clocky moved on wheels. Tocky is wheel-less, being […]
Month: July 2010
“Clerics drop plan to ban civet coffee”
AFC reports on a controversy involving luak coffee, the subject of a 1995 Ig Nobel Prize. Under the headline “Indonesian clerics drop plan to ban civet coffee“, AFP says: JAKARTA — Indonesia’s highest Islamic body on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking the world’s most expensive coffee, which is extracted from the […]
Art: Boadwee rectal squirt method
Over the past few centuries, artists have successfully developed a host of imaginative and unusual methods for applying paint to canvas. But few are more colourful than the rectal squirt method developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco […]
How to cater a Roman Orgy
When someone hires you to cater for a Roman orgy, explains Corky White, you should visit a library. That’s what she did, one day in the late 1970s, when a Harvard professor asked her to provide the food for an intimate gathering at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. White is now an anthropology professor at […]