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Police detonate suspicious toy pony A “suspicious” toy pony was blown up after it was found abandoned in the middle of a cul-de-sac near an Orange County elementary school. The FurReal pony, an expensive, life-like toy, was investigated...

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Bacon Beer A homebrewed and bacon-infused bourbon smoked porter. Mmmmm, Bacon... Woohoo! Beer Beer Beer... [via Grocery Eats]

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Traumatising baby products Raising a baby is a tough gig. "Experts" declare at every turn that the wrong decisions on nutrition, napping or enrichment will render your child emotionally barren, homeless, sexually deviant and, worst...

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Bowser Beer – Beer for dogs "Put some PARTY in your animal" Bowser Beer – a non-alcoholic beer for dogs!

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15 Toys NOT To Buy Your Kids This Christmas Kudos to The Huffington Post for flying the "Inappropriate Kids Toys" flag loud and proud last week. Includes some brand new material, seamlessly blended with some old favourites. [gallery columns="2"]

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Sozzled Tots Flog Chocs

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising, Inappropriate Stuff For Kids | Posted on 18-01-2012

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In this print ad campaign by Dentsu South America, images of “drunken” toddlers are used to sell chocolates infused with Jack Daniel’s Whiskey.

Creepy abandoned doll factory

Posted by luke | Posted in Photography | Posted on 04-01-2012

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Check out this gallery of photos from an adandoned doll factory in Spain.

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McDonalds “is” better than Burger King

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising | Posted on 08-12-2011

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Rather controversial ad from McDonalds in Germany but I can’t help but love the concept.

LEGO ‘Build Together’ campaign

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising, Toys | Posted on 15-11-2011

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I utterly love the new LEGO ‘Build Together’ TV campaign. It captures the beauty of LEGO, putting creativity and imagination at the forefront. Enjoy :)

Star Wars Dog Halloween Costume

Posted by luke | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 19-10-2011

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Two things high on my ‘loathsome things’ list, combined. Dog apparel + Geek Wars

Oh, fork!

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising, Art | Posted on 17-10-2011

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French homegoods retailer IDM commissioned local street theater company Royal de Luxe to design a giant fork stabbing an automobile outside of their Nantes, France showroom.

According to the sign shown in the video, the short-term piece is named AMUSE GUEULE which roughly translates in English to “tidbit” or “appetizer” and was used to announce the introduction of IDM’s new Bulthaup kitchen line.

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Beach gadgets to make yourself: 1950

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising | Posted on 28-07-2011

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Beachward Ho! (Jun, 1950)

The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

Posted by luke | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 06-06-2011

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Deferred gratification and delayed gratification denote a person’s ability to wait in order to obtain something that he or she wants. This intellectual attribute is also called impulse control, will power, self control, and “low” time preference, in economics. Hence, in formal accounting terms, an investor should calculate the net present value of future rewards, and defer near-term rewards of lesser value. Sociologically, good impulse control is considered a positive personality trait, which psychologist Daniel Goleman indicated as an important component trait of emotional intelligence. Moreover, people who lack the psychological trait of being able to delay gratification are said to require instant gratification and might suffer poor impulse control. The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972) indicates that good impulse control might be psychologically important for academic achievement and for success in adult life. Research also indicates that animals do not defer gratification, but instead apply hyperbolic discounting, so, the intellectual problem of delayed gratification is philosophically fundamental to human nature.

The psychoanalytic term impulse control derives from the Freudian psychology theory of personality (Id, Ego, Super-ego), wherein, the id is the pleasure principle, the ego is the reality principle, and the super-ego is the morality principle. The purpose of the ego is to satisfy the needs of the Id, whilst respecting the needs of other people. Accordingly, a person who is unable to delay gratification might possess an imbalanced psychic apparatus wherein the id cannot be controlled by the ego and the super-ego.

To test the theory of a person’s ability to delay gratification, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment (1972), conducted by Prof. Walter Mischel, at Stanford University, California, studied a group of four-year-old children, each of whom was given one marshmallow, but promised two on condition that he or she wait twenty minutes, before eating the first marshmallow. Some children were able to wait the twenty minutes, and some were unable to wait. Furthermore, the university researchers then studied the developmental progress of each participant child into adolescence, and reported that children able to delay gratification (wait) were psychologically better adjusted, more dependable persons, and, as high school students, scored significantly greater grades in the collegiate Scholastic Aptitude Test. More recently, the study Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Developmental Characteristics and Directions for further Research (1994) reported that children afflicted with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) are less able to delay gratification; indicating, perhaps, that poor impulse control might originate biologically, in the brain.

Further research, white papers and references can be found here

Or, if you prefer, here’s a really funny video to illustrate…

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Go the fuck to sleep

Posted by luke | Posted in Inappropriate Stuff For Kids | Posted on 21-05-2011

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This book is very much “doing the rounds” at the moment. At first glance it appears to be a spoof, work-of-Photoshop, or indeed just a gimmick. On closer inspection, however, it is in fact an inspired tongue-in-cheek bedtime book for parents.

The book has soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller chart a month before publication.

Want it? Go the F**k to Sleep

Retro Lego Ad

Posted by luke | Posted in Advertising | Posted on 05-05-2011

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