it's like the eye of a duck

Study: Decorated needles calm patients. This might explain why even though I still get apprehensive about injections, I can get downright giddy when I'm in a piercing studio: if there's jewelry chasing the needle, I do just fine :P

Dr. Charles from Scienceblogs.com has his own ideas for decorations, but IMHO none of them hold a candle to a steel captive bead ring (especially not Rumsfeld)...