If you thought the house by the nuclear power plant was bad, you haven’t begun to witness real estate horror.  Behold Lovely Listing, a what’s what of creepily edited photos, horrible house furnishings, accidental forced perspective, and, ahem, odd kitchen/bathroom hybrids like the one you see above. It’s a treasure trove of how not to take real estate photos, decorate your home, or generally do any kind of interior design.

Basically, Lovely Listing highlights every possible offense to all five senses.  For example, in the photo above?  Not only are you working with 250 square feet total (if you’re lucky), you also have wooden everything (floors, ceilings, and all furniture… including over the shower, which is bad).  The oven is right next to the picnic table.  You can barely fit a dorm-sized microwave in the gap between the top and bottom cabinet installations.  There’s two sinks when you could probably make due with just one.

And, of course, you have a TOILET next to the KITCHEN.  One flush with the lid open and you’ve got sewage all over your oranges. While it’s better than going outside, you couldn’t rough in a water closet?  Granted that’d be pretty claustrophobic, but it’s a lot better than people being able to look in your kitchen window and watch you shower (or worse).

Sometimes, I think people just do things without thinking them through.  Other times, I know people just do things without thinking them through.

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Fashion designer Marc Ecko’s designs draw from a variety of inspirations, but there’s nothing as cool as his Black Rhino clothing articles.  After all, the Black Rhino collection is the home of the incredibly awesome Black Rhino Jason Hoodie, inspired by Jason Voorhees and the classic 80’s slasher movies in the Friday the 13th series.  […]

Throughout history, there’s been one constant.  People are going to do whatever they can to make themselves more beautiful.  Whether it’s a tattoo of an Internet superstar like Tay Zonday, a tooth tattoo, an eyeball coloration, or even an amputation disguise, there’s no shortage of ideas on what people can do to the body to […]

As lights get smaller and more powerful, you’re going to start seeing them in more and more places.  For example, check out the Galaxy Dress from CuteCircuit.  This formal-style gown made of crinoline, chiffon, 4,000 Swarovski crystals, and 24,000 LEDs is a pretty impressive combination of form and function.  Assuming you want to function as […]

Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Remembrance Day.
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Twenty years ago today, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.  The wall, separating East and West Berlin, was a symbol of the Cold War between the free world and the Soviet Union.  Google has a great selection of images from Life Magazine detailing the history of the wall, and there’s also a […]

From the outside, Emma Cahill looks like your average school girl.  She just turned 16 and attends St Mary’s Convent School in Worcester, England.  She is active in sports and has many friends, but there’s one thing different about Emma.  At 6′5, she is the tallest teenage girl in the UK.
Fortunately for Emma, her unusual […]

The New York Marathon ran this weekend.  Surprisingly, the winner was an American; in fact, Eritrea-born Meb Keflezighi is the first American citizen to win the marathon since 1982 (the year after I was born).  However, with an estimated 42,000 runners in the marathon this year, not all of them are hardcore professionals.  There are […]