Sometimes the human population is usefully imagined as a sea of nipples, seamlessly joined, a tactile surface area of however many thousands of square kilometres. Or a trampoline perhaps? Point being, there’s a lot of us, and nipples seem to have this inherent goodness about them. Cruelly we are limited to just two in this lifetime, but thankfully the transhumanists amongst us are busy trying to rectify that. As such, sites like www.humanupgrades.com are a good option for a third ( or fourth ) nipple, while ‘trad’ body mod sites like bmezine.com are good for replacing your fingernails. And some people think brass knuckles embedded under your chest skin are passe already.
From a media perspective, another body part worth shoving under the anatomical spotlight is the tail, specifically the “long tail”, which refers to the way in which our culture and economy is beginning to focus less on a small number of giant hits, and more on a giant number of small hits ( the long tail). Chris Anderson who coined the phrase, has of course a site and blog on the topic. Also of note, Tim Berners Lee now has a posse. Or a blog in fact, which has just started up. Given it’s by the man founded the world wide web, it’s already saturated with comments from the fawning, appreciative masses, but will no doubt prove an interesting read over times to come.