Carl Zimmer is a writer for Discover Magazine, amongst many other things. Having discovered a scientist friend had a DNA strand tattoo with a story behind it, he asked on their blog whether anyone else had science related tattoos.

Many, many people did. He now has a thriving gallery of submissions, and has woven the best images and stories in to a new book, Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed.

If you’re interested in the human stories behind tattoos, we strongly recommend having a look through the gallery and clicking some of the images to see the story written up about them. The love some of the scientists and geeks have for their favourite subjects is inspirational.

Want to celebrate the Olympics in London this year, but don’t want to get permanently inked?

We’ve got a range of flag temporary tattoos which are perfect for showing your allegiance for an event, but let you clean it off before getting back to work the next day.

As well as English flag tattoos, we’ve got ones for various European countries and Brazil. Usually people want them for football matches, and you can certainly double up on your order and use them for Euro 2012 as well.

Euro 2012 is on from 8th June to 1st July, and the Olympics starts on 27th July, so any tattoos you don’t use during the cup battle – and lets face it, we might not be in there for long – you can use during the Olympics instead. If we do get through to the cup final and you slather yourself in your remaining temporary designs (do send us some pictures!) you’ll have plenty of time to get some more before the Olympics opening ceremony.

The results of the Brighton Tattoo Convention are in, but so far we’ve only found them on their Facebook page, which you can’t see if you’re not signed in to Facebook.

So, here are the winners announced at the convention, and receiving some of the amazing Eaton Nott designed awards we mentioned earlier.

SATURDAY
Small Black and Grey
Jamie by Eric Marcinizyn, Trademark Tattoo (Germany)

Large Black and Grey
Larry by Carlos Torres, Timeline Gallery (USA)

Small Colour
Nicky by Hazel Nicholls, Design for Life

Large Colour
Julie by Jay Parker, Skin Illustrations

Best Of Day
Nathan by Miss Arianna, Skinwear (Italy)

SUNDAY
Small Black and Grey
Santosh by Mohan Gurung, Mohan’s Tattoo Inn (Napal)

Large Black and Grey
Kirstin by Neil Bass, tattoo FX

Small Colour
Jack by Alex Willot, La Main Blue (France)

Large Colour
Ken by Noi Siamese, 1969 tattoo (Norway)

Best of Day
Darren by Eric Marcinizyn, Trademark Tattoo (Germany)

You can see some pictures of the convention on Flickr.

It looks like some excellent work was shown. If you’ve got better links for any of the above people and companies, let us know in the comments and we’ll re-jig what we’ve got.