Created by artist Margaux Lange who evidently takes enormous pleasure (and a living) from cutting up Barbie and her boyfriend Ken to make necklaces, brooches and bracelets for very, very sick individuals. This one looks a bit like my old Ski Ken (sob)…

Artist Dismembers Barbie, Turns Body Parts Into Disturbing Jewelry (via ecouterre)

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Is this the greatest dummy pacifier in the world?

UPDATE: Yes it is.

Mute Button (via Boing Boing)

Maisie Maud Broadhead’s Cable Drawings – A series of installations created with wire flex and cable fixings – is a splendid way to deal with excess cable-age. Although you’d have to have rather a lot of excess to pull off anything resembling the masterpiece above… or an extension cord. Which would kind of defeat the object.

Turning unsightly cables into design (via Make)

Having recently endured a mouse infestation in my own house, Tom Parker’s cheeseboard/mousetrap combo (and the ‘let the bastards on to your worktop just long enough to smell the cheese and die’ philosophy that comes with it) appeals to my state of mind greatly. The only problem is that mice aren’t actually all that fussed about cheese – they much prefer peanut butter and chocolate. Fact.

Combo mousetrap and cheese cutting board (via Boing Boing)

Received the following email from HMV this morning:

Hi Thomas,
You asked us to let you know when Twin Peaks: Season 2: 6dvd: Box Set : Tv Series: Kyle Maclachlan: Piper Laurie was ready to pre-order.

Good news!

Twin Peaks: Season 2: 6dvd: Box Set : Tv Series: Kyle Maclachlan: Piper Laurie has just been added to our catalogue, so you can be the first to get your order in now.

Release date: 22/3/2010, catalogue number: 8261037, label: Playback, price £37.99 (RRP £49.99).

Obviously the twisted nature of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks puts this firmly in the BadParent category for the purposes of this blog but, come on… it’s been 19 years. Bring. It. On.

Pre-order Twin Peaks Season 2, Region 2, 6xDVD boxset on HMV, right now.

Anything that makes counting fun while enjoying a cuppa tea is, at first glance, great. But when you think about it, the only number between 0 and 9 that you’d comfortably want to stick your finger in is 0. You know, like a normal mug handle. Thus rendering the other 9 useless apart from using them for the occassional game of ‘dangerous china cup stacking’.

Stackable Number Cup by +d (via BLTD)

You know that painting ‘moment’ you get when taking a break, possibly between coats, when you’re forced to leave your paintbrush precariously balanced on the rim of the can causing a slow-but-fatal stream of paint to ooze its oil-based way onto and through the old piece of rag you wrongly assumed would protect the carpet in such situations? Of course you do. Good news, then: the Hanging Brush concept designed by Bang Jun Mo & You In Sik has arrived to save the lives of weekend decorators, one carpet at a time.

Hang On The Rim (via Yanko Design)

Adam Richardson’s Invaded Space collection features photographs of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with characters from the classic Space Invaders video game superimposed over the top.

At first glance you might feel it trivialises the war. On second thoughts, however, if there were any more thought processes involved other than ‘hey, let’s do something cliched’ – it was probably more to do with giving it to the man (the ‘game-playing’ government) than making a mockery of the armed forces.

Space Invader war photography (via Boing Boing)

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X-Flex Blast Protection System wallpaper was designed by Berry Plastics in partnership with the US Army Corp of Engineers. Apparently, just one layer is enough to beat a wrecking ball while a double layer can stop blunt objects (”i.e. a flying 2×4″) from breaking through. Ideal for army bases, tall buildings under threat from terrorism and playrooms. After all, you can never be too safe.

NOTE: I’m going to hide this from my wife because she will actually make me order some.

Bomb-proof wallpaper could save you in  a natural disaster (via Inhabitat)

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Kicki Edgren Nyborg has designed a series of immense concept wallpapers with hidden shelves (the Off The Wall collection) and bustling landscapes (WallPlay). The latter is a bit like painting a playroom wall with blackboard paint – so the wall itself becomes part of the fun – just with a lot more colour, obviously.

Wallpaper ALIVE! (via Yanko Design)

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