This is not an ad from the back of the Village Voice .

She's small! She's hot! And, she's a natural redhead!

The Redhead is a Wendy's coffee.

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Blow Job is the work of Lithuanian photographer Tadao Cern . It's… a little less sexy than the title might imply.

This 2012 photography project by Tadao Cern essentially involved placing more than one hundred willing participants in front of a giant wind cannon, and then taking some very unflattering, very high resolution photographs of their faces. And, well…

The results are glorious.

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Because charts make everything easier!

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Eight years and hundreds of millions of devices later, Apple's weird, flat, ubiquitous plug might finally be signing off.

The oldest piece of tech I use is a cable. I'm fairly sure it came with my roommate's now-dead 4th generation iPod, the glowing blue click wheel one, which he would have bought in 2004, when Bush was in his first term and computer nerds were still excited about the Pentium 4. The only other eight-year-old gadget I have — a DVD player with a three-disc carousel — is sitting in a closet. I doubt it still powers up. The cable, though, snaps into the base of my iPhone 4S without a fight. It charges like new.

The iPhone dock connector has been a remarkably persistent standard in an industry defined by a lack of persistent standards, and kept alive by a company known for flaunting them. The first dock connector appeared in the 2003 iPod — before that, iPods used Firewire — and has been there ever since, in almost every iPod, every iPhone, and every iPad.

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Since 2004, when Apple switched the dock connector's power rail from Firewire to USB, it hasn't changed much — a few of its 30 pins have assigned or reassigned new jobs, like video transfer, but a cable from 2004 can still charge and sync a device sold today, at the very least. The biggest change has been feel: the early dock connector had a mechanical locking system to prevent the plug from slipping out, which gave it a satisfying CLICK. The last few generations of dock connector operate more smoothly, but the action is still unique: less resistant than a USB port, yet more mechanical.

Every big gadget company has tried a proprietary port at some point, but nearly all have given up. They've since congregated around the same standard — and in Europe, legally mandated — MicroUSB port for charging and syncing. MicroUSB ports are almost apologetically small, and placed on smartphones as if as an afterthought, often on the side or top, near the headphone jack. Sometimes they even get a small plastic flap, ostensibly for protection from dust but, spiritually, I think, as a human-like expression of modesty. Ports, mechanical or otherwise, are unseemly.

Apple's port, on the other hand, dominates half of the bottom face of the iPhone, a lone, gaping reminder that this otherwise seamless device is still just a messy bundle of copper, steel, plastic and wires. A peek into an iPhone or iPod's dock connector is the easiest way to guess its age — dust and scum accumulates gradually, like floating trash in the phone design's only eddy. In form, the cable harks back to Apple's long-passed white plastic era, and can almost look out of place strung between a brushed aluminum MacBook and a black glass iPhone. (Apple's once-total white aesthetic lives mainly in wire form, in sync cables, laptop chargers, and earbuds.)

Now, for the first time, it looks like it's going to change. The next generation of iPhone is rumored to have a much smaller dock connector that would fully break compatibility for the first time in eight years. The dock connector as we know it is on deathwatch.

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Delve into the fantastical, esoteric world of niche perfumeries creating obscure, conceptual scents you'd never find at a Macy's counter. Their exotic names and pretty packaging are all tempting in their own way, but evaluating the actual fragrances is what really matters. Here are the best batch, as determined by a panel of six BuzzFeed sniff testers.

An underground scene exists for everything these days, and the perfume world is no exception. A cult obsessives (many with blogs, obviously) pore over packaging, complexity and “sillage.” (Which, I learned, is the trail left behind by a scent — as in, if you're in an elevator and you notice some girl reeks, you'd say her perfume has maximum sillage.) The appeal of niche perfume transcends the scent itself — it's about smelling like no one else, and knowing that you own a product made in a small, hand-crafted batch using real botanicals and essences rather than the phthalates and synthetic chemicals found in mainstream perfumes. So, onto the sniff test!

Behold: The BuzzFeed Perfume Sampling Party

None of us are perfume connoisseurs — I'm probably the only tester in the bunch who could tell you what “sillage” means because I was tasked with writing this post. So we judged each scent with our visceral reactions. Like normal people instead of perfume people. And we agreed surprisingly easily: any exclamation of “pretty!” was a thumbs up. Any crinkling of the nose followed by a “hmmm…” or an outright “ew” was usually a mutually agreed upon thumbs down.

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Step 1. Be these guys. Step 2. Be their dogs.

Sit up straight

Ryan Gosling

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Wear a white t-shirt

George Clooney

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Match your dog's accessories

Zac Efron

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Be rugged

Brad Pitt

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Ke$ha's typical fashion statements involve blue lipstick, pounds of glitter , and hair doubled by volume with hairspray. That was not the case the BMI Awards (that's Broadcast Music Inc. Awards, not Body Mass Index Awards) this week, she opted for a different look. Dare I say, I kind of miss disheveled Ke$ha?

First, New Ke$ha:

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Now compare with Old Ke$ha:

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Those freakin' eyes…

The side glance at the end of the spot is extra disturbing.

Kayak's last commercial (below) upset some brain surgeons. This new one will upset some women. Consistency is one of the keys to a good campaign. Can't wait to see who they upset next.

Ad agency: BFG 9000, NYC.

A normal teenager noticed that people who weren't his friends were able to “like” his status and posted about it. Within 22 hours over 73,000 other people have liked his status, just to mess with him.

It's basically the “broken window theory” – when you see someone else in your feed liked this status, you want to join in and “like” his status too (I know that's why I did). It kept going and going and thousands of people joined in. Sort of like a chain letter of trolling.

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Sure, fast food is convenient, cheap, and arguably tasty. But from time to time, consumers get a lot more than they bargain for — and we're not talking extra curly fries.

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