Exapolakatekls Stronghold of Evil

Is your neck too short? Do you have ugly legs? Is that fat bit of your cheeks always jumping around when you talk making you look ugly and uncomfortable?
Well, there´s help in sight. Here´s a score of revolutionary solutions for all your beauty problems. They´ve got one for every little one of them.
Those Japanese sure know how to get rid of the ugliness... :)

This is about the strongest pornolization of an ad that I´ve seen so far. And of course I love it!
It contains some pretty strong.... uhm, well, you´ll see.
The problem with this kind of advertisement is: what the hell did they actually want to sell? I´cant recall... ;)
Oh, by the way, they have a female-female and male-male version too...

For some really crazy and beautiful artwork you should visit gild, the independent curating company. I like the babysuit on the right hand side. Hmm... wonder how I'm gonna get all the babies for my king size version, I´ll look truely evil with that!

Also interesting but with very different content is this page with nice underwater pics.
Very aesthetic, I like the idea with the black water.

Didn´t you always phantasize about women really kicking your butt? Well you´ll have to wait no longer. These cute little ladies really have a way with getting themselves some attention.

But seriously, who would actually pay for this kind of treatment?

Cute bento (japanese lunchboxes), it´s almost a shame to eat it! :)

Bow down and behold in awe the future of beer drinking: Asahi Breweries incredible Beerbot. It chills and opens up to six cans of beer for its too-lazy-to-open-a-can-of-beer-good-for-nothing owner. The beerbot is part of a promotion scheme, giving the contestants the chance of winning one out of 5.000 of these fully-stocked beauties if they collect 36 seals found on specially marked Asahi beers. As it seems they are not working on a robot, that also drinks the beer, so part of the work still has to be done by the owner himself. By the way I really love Asahis slogan "Creating new levels of satisfaction"... ;)

The japanese really are crazy about their robots, check out this page, to see some other weird inventions, including a snake like robot who's only purpose is to scare the shits out of little kids.
Now thats what I call putting a lot of effort into a practical joke...funny sort of humor too!

Everybody knows tupperware parties, the unique and extremely successful marketing scheme employed by Tupperware Brands Corporation for their megaselling kitchen products brand Tupperware.

Now an exciting new trend from switzerland is in town; the same marketing concept is being employed to something totally different, namely sex toys for women!

It´s called Fuckerware Party and has mainly female fans.
Think that sounds like a good idea? You´re not the only one: sex shop owner and party hostess MarenG has a growing number of satisfied customers from all over the country.
So next time you want to prevent your party from becoming a bore you know who to call... ;)

Everbody loves Xzibits great show "Pimp my ride". But there´s a lot more things a real hustler can pimp than his car:

a hustlers phone
a hustlers mazda (doesn´t count as a real car)
a hustlers dumptruck
a hustlers limo
a hustlers cup
a hustlers shopping cart
a hustlers outfit
a hustlers bit... bride
a hustler bike
a hustlers snack
a hustlers grandmother
a hustlers gimp
and maybe best of all a hustlers name

If you really want to start off as a pimp it may also prove helpful to read the problem-oriented guide by the U.S. Department of Justice.
So long homies, yours sincerely Mack Master Stark Slither

Now tatooes really are THE thing to get this summer. If you don´t have one already, you may wish to check out this page for some inspirations.
There really are some unique artworks showing people, food, objects and even dragons you won't believe until you see.
I truely must say I am flabbergasted.

Bolivias strong man of the day Evo Morales seems to be the left-wings new idol. On may 1st, 2006 he signed a decree nationalizing all natural gas reserves.

Now as everybody knows, there is a long history of nationalizing ressources. The lovely thing for politicians about nationalizing a countries reserves of gas, oil or whatever is that foreign - in this case brazilian- multis have already invested in the infrastructure and a stable and reliable market exists. You only need to harvest other people´s work and spend the money. In addition it is also very popular with the broad public, seeing noone really likes multis anyway. This makes it a very attractive way for governments to raise funding for their spending. Talks about a reselling of the nationalized companies to the french multinational Total are already on the way, which in my eyes perverts the original argument for the nationaliziation which was to stop the plundering by foreign companies.

One of the more famous "presidents" nationalizing national ressources is Saddam Hussein. He used the petrodollars to finance his gargantuan bureucracy, manifold wars and massive army. Oh, and indeed, he used it also to finance additional social services, making him very popular. The same goes for Simbabwian "Prime Minister" Mr. Robert Mugabe, who disposessed white farmers, bringing his own people close to starvation as agricultural production collapsed. Mugabes argument was, that the land originally belonged to the black people, and whites can´t rightfully possess it, which is ridiculous because the white settlers have lived there for generations. Just imagine what would happen if it was attempted to correct every "unlawful" possession of land that ever happened, where would you stop going back in time to find the "lawful" owners? In the stone age? Would you evict the people currently known as Americans and give the land back to the indians?

Bolivia as a state is not exactly renowned for incorruptable civil servants. A 2005 Transparancy international survey shows that more than 50% of the bolivians feel that corruption has increased a lot since 2004. The country sports one of the most corrupt systems in the world. Assuming that Mr. Morales will hardly be able to run the whole state by himself, you can be sure that these are the sort of people that get the major share of the petrodollars now. Please don´t forget; the Bolivian government was already getting a share of the gas profits through the taxes they were imposing. I guess they never get enough.

The move has already inspired imitators; Ecuador is nationalizing US Oil-Corporation Occidental. Personally I don´t see how the one group of profit oriented people like south-american politicians is better suited to run a gas corporation than another, no matter how popular and charismatic single men of the group may be.

Besides I just don´t get it; these people are seriously deterring foreign investors by disrespecting property rights. They are damaging their own economy in a way that will last for centuries to come. Alas, I consider seizing private property to resell it about as morally correct as any other form of theft.

Christina Aguilera does look a bit chubby recently, doesn´t she? Maybe she should go a bit easier on fast food. Anyway she always did seem a bit skinny to me so it may well be considered a change for the better.
For other great Adobe Photoshop works check out this page. There´s a lot of really hilarious pics and great artwork, hands down!

This is the ad for a surgeon devised by creative studio DDB Canada. Don´t get this wrong, I´m not promoting plastic surgery, quite the opposite actually, but these guys have a pretty impressive Homepage and creative portfolio that´s worth checking out for the laugh of it. These pesky little men in funny suits are cool, but I favor the milk ad, maybe that´s because it designed to target kids... :)

Often marketing campaigns aim at male customers by using breasts, tits and boobs. There really is no need for such, as this south-african ad shows. Now I must say, that at first I felt a little bit offended by the guerilla marketing campaign in the left hand side picture, that´s currently being employed in internet cafes.

But then I found this campaign by a german sex shop, that targets female customers and now I know it could´ve come a lot worse.

The company purports that its campaign bases on the result of a comprehensive survey on female sexual needs and desires. It utilizes themes from the upcoming world soccer championship in germany, claiming that it reflects how women think and feel in terms of sex.

Well, maybe they need to get a new market researcher. I´m really not so confident that women want a dildo with "Oli K." written on it. But then again women do think a lot different than men and maybe those football-shaped orgams balls will do the trick... ;)

Anyway, advertising says a lot about what marketing CEOs think about their customers, which kinda makes me wonder...

For everybody that thinks real news are too boring, here´s your chance to invent your own.
Damn those martians...!!!

San Precario is a new saint created by an activist group called Chainworkers lobbying against precarity.
Basicly these people are attempting to connect their "precarious" existence as short-contract, project-based workers of the creative community to other "precarious" workers such as migrants, retail workers and asylum seekers, for example.
Their homepage is quite flashy and I do feel a little exploited myself I must say though there's noone in specific to point the finger at. Maybe I should just join in line and blame rich people, the United States and Neocapitalism in general. Or wait, maybe I´ll just think again... ;)

Apology accepted, we didn´t vote for him either.

Devised as an outpost against the sexual conservatism of the american neo-cons, the annually held Masturbate-a-thon of San Francisco flashes a lot of people peacefully coming together to celebrate and well, you guessed...

The event is hosted by Good Vibrations, a sex shop owned by women, that wants to promote masturbation by ridding people of feelings of guilt. What better way to do so than hold an event that sports thousands of people from all over the world masturbating at the event and over livecam!

Participants need to provide a sponsor that pays for every minute of masturbation (single person record is at six and a half hours!). Winner is the one that masturbates the longest, but there´s also a runner´s up price for the one with the most orgasms. Oh, and by the way the money goes to charity as usual.

The rules are rather peculiar as you probably guessed...

• Genitals must be showing
• No touching other participants
• Participants may continuously stimulate any part of their body as long as they are demonstrating true arousal to such stimulation
• No drugs or alcohol. No smoking. (Aaawww, come on!)
• NO FAKING ORGASM. Do not waste our time. If you have an orgasm we are happy for you but this is not our goal. The first detected faked orgasm shall be reason for a 15-minute penalty against accumulated time.The second detected fake orgasm shall be a thirty minute fine against accumulated time and the third will disqualify the offender from further competition at that event

The event is part of the "National masturbation month" that was introduced in 1995 as a reaction to the firing of Clinton administrations Surgeon-General Dr. Joycelyn Elders. She was sacked for her statement that masturbation "... is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught [to prevent the spread of AIDS]".

Now what beats me is: how do they differentiate between real and fake orgasms?!

Just recently I came upon a study by Stulhofer (1999) in which he examines the importance of penis length and girth for women, interviewing 556 women between 19-49 years.
Findings show that -as expected- girth is considered more important than length and this effect increases with sexual experience (operationalized by the number sexpartners). Also 71.8% of women stated that the "esthetic quality" of their partner´s penis is somewhat to very important.

Unfortunately as Stulhofer points out "... the questions did not allow [him] to distinguish between the claims that relate penis size to pleasure and those who relate it primarily to discomfort or pain..."

It seems there is still a lot of research work to do...

Tony Alleyne from Hinckley, UK, transformed his apartment into Star Trek Voyager. His flat features moulded walls, touch-panel blue lightning, a command console and even a life-sized model of the shows tranporter room. Apparently he accumulated a respectable sum of 100.000 Pound in debt, wasting 14 credit cards. Also his wife left him when he replaced the refrigerator with a "warp coil".

Sedlec Ossuary is a Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. It was built around 1400 AD.

Now dig this: "...the ossuary contains approximately 40,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel..."!

Obviously they had so many corpes when the black plague came that due to lack of burial ground they decided to do something "useful" with them. A similar ossuary chapel is Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.

These people really freak me out, I can tell you...