The House of Blood Where is the house of blood? It could be your house with these home furnishings, most of which are available at the click of a mouse. Individually, they might be described as conversation pieces; put them all together and you'll have a house of horrors no one would want to visit twice. One of these products used the description "Gruesome, bloody, and absolutely offensive. Dining Room Designer Amy Lau was inspired by the serial killer show on Showtime when she came up with these Dexter dining room chairs. Lighting The Blood Bucket Lamp looks like it's pouring all over your desktop, but the blood is the stem and base. Lamp This Blood Lamp doesn't look that bloody, but the way you turn it on can be considered gruesome. Cutlery The Bloody Kitchen Knife is food safe, except when someone comes into the kitchen and sees you use it! Coffee Set How about a 14-piece Bloody Coffee Set, complete with drops and smears? Table Linen Table Candles Shower Curtain Don't forget the bathroom! Towels Bath Mat
Chronology of the Doctor Who universe The majority of the stories in the long-running television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs include an element of time travel , with the settings taking place on dates across a wide span of time in the fictional universe of Doctor Who – the " Whoniverse ". To date, 11 actors have portrayed the Doctor, with each receiving an ordinal number (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.). This list encompasses the adventures of all 11 Doctors and the spin-off series Torchwood (TW), The Sarah Jane Adventures (SJA) and K-9 (K-9). [ edit ] Dating Not all of these stories can have a possible date attributed to them. Many stories and episodes depict or refer to events similar to historical events in real life, or involve characters identifiable as real-life historic individuals. [ edit ] Specific dating [ edit ] BC [ edit ] 1st Millennium AD [ edit ] 2nd Millennium For additional events that possibly occur in this period see [ nb 1 ] [ nb 2 ] [ edit ] 20th Century [ edit ] 21st Century [ edit ] Post 21st Century Notes
Why Does the Sound of Running Water Make You Have to Pee? Reader Bill wrote in to ask, “Why does the sound of running water make me want to pee—and sometimes badly?” Faucet image via Shutterstock The quirk behind the burning need to pee when we hear rainstorms, waterfalls and babbling brooks seems to be all tied up in the power of suggestion. Most of you are familiar with the name Pavlov, and know that he had something to do with dogs. That something is an experiment where the Russian doctor showed that autonomic responses (visceral reflexes that occur automatically and unconsciously under the control of the autonomic nervous system ) could be triggered by outside stimuli. Dog owners will attest that when a pooch gets its mouth on a piece of meat, they usually produce a river of saliva. Pavlov thought that a lot of this automatic and unconscious learning happens all the time to people, and you can probably think of a few cases from your own life where you reflexively react a certain way to a seemingly unrelated stimulus.
9 Muppets Kicked Off Sesame Street In 40 seasons, Sesame Street has featured over 1,000 characters. Although we’ll always have mainstays like Big Bird, Elmo, Bert and Ernie, many Muppets have been forgotten or deemed unnecessary. Here are a few Sesame Street residents who were evicted. 1. Roosevelt Franklin Perhaps the most famous of the retired Sesame Street Muppets is Roosevelt Franklin. Parents wrote to the Children’s Television Workshop to complain that Roosevelt was a negative stereotype of African-American children, citing his rowdy nature and the fact that his classes closely resembled after-school detention. 2. If a Muppet with a ’70s porn mustache and googly eyes offers to keep an eye on your hat, run the other way. 3. If there’s one thing kids like, it’s boring lectures. 4. One of Richard Hunt’s most beloved characters was Don Music, a pianist and lyricist who penned such hits as “Mary Had a Bicycle,” “Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car,” and “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Yellowstone Park?” 5. 6. 7. 8 & 9.
Anti-tobacco campaigners create life-sized car from 200,000 cigarettes Made of 200,000 cigarettes this car has been displayed in Mumbai India.The epicenter of attraction for the passersby, the smokable installation is on display in a shopping mall in Mumbai and has been built while meticulously putting cigarette sticks one on the other. India remains second largest tobacco producer and consumer of tobacco after China and the installation strongly conveys message to masses – ‘Quit Smoking’! Source : automotto
See for Yourself: The Pentagon's $51 Billion 'Black' Budget | Danger Room Photo: The military keeps a lot of little things secret. It could be the exact range of a jammer, sensitive missile data or the timing of a raid. These secrets are different. This year, the military’s black budget appears to be a little over $51 billion, down from the $56 billion which held steady for the last two years, not including inflation. Because it’s not easy saying we have the complete number. These projects are also where to go when searching for what’s getting cut. Most other projects saw lesser cuts, however, and others like “RETRACT MAPLE” even saw minor gains. The Pentagon budget also sheds light on the shadowy world of special operations forces and their “new normal” requirements in Afghanistan “and other locations” like the Horn of Africa. Yet, “The overall amount of troops and missions within [Afghanistan] are projected to increase,” it says. There’s also a slight problem.
Morbid Home Decor Over a year ago, I posted Killer Home Decor and found out how many of you have a subversive, or even a morbid sense of humor in furnishing your homes. This is the long overdue continuation of that post, with more ways for you to impress visitors to your home. These products will give them either smiles on their faces or chills down their backs! Roadkill Carpet Ew, what's that on your rug? Studio OOOMS has a handmade 100% wool carpet that looks beautiful, except for that 100% wool flattened bloody fox! Mr. The Mr. Dead Fred Penholder Dead Fred is a penholder. Hanged Man Lamp Shine a little light in the darkness with the Hanged Man Lamp by enPieza. Nuclear Waste Containers Nothing says "hands off" like a nuclear symbol. Coffin Table The Memento Coffee Table Casket is designed to be both a coffee table and a coffin! Made from an intentional choice of materials, this "pine box" puts design in context of the user at different stages of life, and death. Coffin Couch Knife Hooks Crime Scene Scarf
Dying Alice's bucket list inspires global outpouring of internet love Alice Pyne and her pet labrador Mabel. A 15-year-old girl with terminal cancer is smiling after her "bucket list" went viral on the internet and inspired an outpouring of support from around the world. Support from celebrity tweeters including Justin Bieber and Katy Perry has generated so much exposure that almost everything Alice Pyne wants to do before she dies will be granted. It's shown that while sometimes the online world really can be a cesspit, it can also be a truly inspiring place, with people coming together from all over, united in a desire to actually do something good Alice's Hodgkin's lymphoma - cancer of the white blood cells - is spreading through her body and she may have just weeks to live. The girl, from the northwest English town of Ulverston, created a blog on Monday, "Alice's Bucket List", to catalogue her final days and talk about her final wishes. Alice with her younger sister Milly and mum Vicky. "It doesn't look like i'm going to win this one. Advertisement
Study Shows What Hazardous Materials Lurk In Car Interiors | Autopia Cue threatening music and ominous voiceover: An environmental advocacy group has published its latest list of the toxic and hazardous materials lurking within new vehicles. Researchers at The Ecology Center sampled 11 components on more than 200 new vehicles, testing for the presence of 11 chemicals such as lead, mercury, bromine and chromium. The off-gassing of such materials contribute to the intoxicating aroma known as “new car smell,” which is less the odor of fine Corrrrrinthian leather than the off-gassing of volatile organic compounds from glue, plastic and flame retardant. Before you panic, it’s important to note there’s no guarantee that you’ll end up exposed to harmful levels of any of these substances — unless you regularly drink smoothies made from car armrests. Still, the researchers note that the average American spends more than 90 minutes in a vehicle each day, and exposure to these chemicals can be a major source of indoor air pollution. Images: The Ecology Center
9 Odd and Unusual Soaps When you need to buy a gift for a person who doesn't want anything specific, items that can be used up are always welcome. Sweets, art supplies, wine, and soap will be used and won't clutter up the house for years to come. Here are some odd and unusual soaps for the odd and unusual people in your life. 1. Money Soap This gift is like giving someone a lottery ticket. 2. Clean up with the Dark Side! 3. Archie McPhee offers Absinthe Soap as an alternative for those who can't afford to fill a bathtub with absinthe. 4. Here's another liquor-based soap that comes in shot glass form! 5. Two Etsy vendors make soap in Tetris shapes. 6. iPhone Soap Get someone you love an iPhone. 7. The original Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap from the 1960s made bath time fun because it would start "growing hair"! 8. Hideaki Matsui designed soap bars that resemble landmines . For every soap purchased, $2 is donated to The Cambodia Landmine Museum. 9. See more unusual soaps in the previous post 8 Attention-Grabbing Soaps .
Large earthquakes rock Christchurch New quakes rock Christchurch Following the devastating earthquakes of February Christchurch has again been rocked by aftershocks. P 13, 2011 Damaging magnitude 6.0 and 5.5 earthquakes which rocked Christchurch earlier today have not lessened the government's resolve to rebuild the shattered city, Prime Minister John Key says. The magnitude 5.5 quake struck at 1pm, 10 kilometres east of Christchurch at Taylor's Mistake beach, at a depth of 11 kilometres, and sent people scrambling for cover. At least 10 people were taken to Christchurch Hospital with injuries due to falling building material after the 1pm quake. Damage on the corner of Stanmore Road and Worcester Street. Police said there were no reports of injuries following the second aftershock. Advertisement Mayor Bob Parker told Radio NZ the second quake was the strongest. "Thank God we had evacuated the red zone,'' he said. "We are being enveloped with dust.