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No Joy – The abandoned Joyland Amusement

The abandoned Joyland Amusement park in Wichita, Kansas. Great, sad images. Tools…Canon 7D. Kessler Pocket Dolly. Lots of different glass. Graded with MB Colorista II and Looks. Really wanted to push the color on this since places like this are hyper-colorful in people’s memories.

Zombie Head Cookie Jar

Do you think that if zombies had enough presence of mind to cook, that they’d bake things out of brains? We can imagine there being zombie bakeries, where they whip up brain-shaped cupcakes with frosting made from blended parietal lobe. (Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. It really adds a certain zing to cream cheese frosting. Way better than nutmeg, IMNSHO.) And of course, there’d have to be chocolate chip cookies with chunks of medulla oblongata. OMG, delish.

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The Secret Lives of Metal-Detector Guys

They are specters from our collective childhood, observed from behind half-finished sandcastles. They move purposefully along the beach, captivating young onlookers with the promise of magical treasure.

They are the metal-detector guys. The archetypal loners. Sealed off from the world by giant headphones, happy to reward young tagalongs with a bottle cap.


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Half of U.S. Adults Obese By 2030

Based on trends, half of the adults in the United States will be obese by 2030 unless the government makes changing the food environment a policy priority, according to a report released Thursday on the international obesity crisis in the British medical journal the Lancet.

Those changes include making healthful foods cheaper and less-healthful foods more expensive largely through tax strategies, the report said. Changes in the way foods are marketed would also be called for, among many other measures.

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Study Of Coral May Lead To Sunburn Pill

The research team hope within the next two years to test a compound based on one which shields coral against harmful ultraviolet rays.

“We already knew that coral and some algae can protect themselves from the harsh UV rays in tropical climates by producing their own sunscreens but, until now, we didn?t know how,” said Dr Paul Long, head of the team.

“What we have found is that the algae living within the coral makes a compound that we think is transported to the coral, which then modifies it into a sunscreen for the benefit of both the coral and the algae.

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Play video games + mow lawn at the same time! – Robomower

Buying a house seemed like such a great idea… until you realized that hours of your precious weekend video game time would have to be spent mowing a lawn. Putting on your crappy sneakers, starting up the cranky motor, pushing it around your yard. Edging. UGH. It’s enough to make us go back to apartment life, it is.

Robomower is the perfect solution! It’s the Three Laws Safe way to mow your lawn and play video games simultaneously. If you have a busy schedule, allergies, a disability, or you’re just lazy and don’t want to hire a landscaping service, you’re going to love the Robomower.

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