Check out this sweet sweet purse made to resemble a brain:


I think it's an obvious idea since brains combined with anything is sweet, but you might wonder about who the heck came up with this idea:
Known for stretching the fashion limits with his avant garde design for the label Undercover, Jun Takashi recently came out with this Brain Bag. An intricate knit of wool resembling the three-pound jelly structure encapsulated by the skull, it's playful but also looks mature and sophisticated and holds its own among other designer handbags.
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(This entry was from 12/22/05 thus the Xmas reference)
Apparently so. Recent research has shown that pleasant smells can increase pain tolerance, and a recent paper by Prescott and Wilkie(1) suggests that it is specifically sweet smells that do so.
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Last night, while stuck in an airport (the inevitable delay), I decided to get a Wendy's milkshake. Not a particularly noteworthy decision - when traveling, I like to subsist entirely on fast food - but it occurred to me, while standing in line, that I wasn't actually hungry. At all.
Yeah, it's cute, but where's the cerebellum?
If only it came in pink....