Labels: Video
Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita has expressed his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire.
A commuter who was sick to death of car fumes and road jams has gone to extreme lengths to avoid them.
![]() | Wasabi silent fire alarm alerts the deaf with the power of scent. [Inventor Spot] |
![]() | A camera that can "see" explosives, drugs and weapons hidden under clothing from 25 metres has been invented. [BBC] |
![]() | Buddhist builder buried alive for two hours survived on just the air trapped in his safety helmet by meditating. [DailyMail] |
Labels: Leftovers
A man in northern India has been recognized by Guinness World Records as having the world's longest ear hair.Labels: Feats and Record
Scientists have created a breakthrough substance that can change in seconds when exposed to liquid, shifting from hard plastic to soft and back again, and that has a wide range of potential medical applications.
Sushi chef Ken Kawasumi shows a replica he created of Vincent van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' made of sushi at a press event in Tokyo Thursday, March 6, 2008. Kawasumi displayed his skill of transforming sushi into a colorful work of art at the special event celebrating the publishing of his new book 'The most simple way to make decorative sushi-rolls' in Japan.
![]() | It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - beetles, rats and sharks turned into cunning spies courtesy of a brain implant or two. [DailyMail] |
![]() | How not to Refuel. [LiveLeak] |
![]() | Earth and moon as seen from Mars. [Nasa] |
![]() | Pictures of people ‘holding the sun.’ [Linkinn] |
![]() | Patient takes drip to shop. [Lep] |
Labels: Leftovers
The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.
A British shopkeeper, frustrated by repeated break-ins, said he has installed a catapult full of chicken droppings to deter burglars.
This video provides a rare close-up bird’s-eye view of cloud streets, which are created when convection currents cut low-lying cumulus into long, clean strips. According to the video narration, these clouds floated just over the sea surface, stood 300 meters tall and stretched for over 100 kilometers.Labels: Video
She looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but Lemon doesn't really walk like a duck.Labels: Animal
![]() | A clothes designer is branching out by creating an entire range of eco-underwear - made from wood. [DailyMail] |
![]() | After losing control on a patch of ice, this pickup truck is literally hanging on with only a tiny piece of metal. [WreckedExotics] |
![]() | The underground tunnel beneath Niagara Falls. [Vanishing Point] |
![]() | How retailers trick you in to buying stuff you don’t need. [Joe Consumer] |
![]() | UK enlisted astrologer to fight Hitler. [Yahoo News] |
![]() | The world's fastest limousine. [DailyMail] |
Labels: Leftovers
A Japanese pin-up model says that her big breasts have not only boosted her career -- they also helped her overturn a court verdict.Labels: Video
A Dutch student has come up with the ultimate way of making easy money - by staying in bed.
Labels: Video
When Robert Kadera's teenage son was running late for a tennis date near their northern Illinois home, Kadera came up with a novel way to avoid 45 minutes' worth of traffic—fly. There was just one problem—he had to land, without permission, at a golf course.
Stacey Arnold writes: "This washing label on my daughter's T-shirt [from Thailand] seems to suggest I can set the garment on fire, but NO CHICKEN. Huh?"
![]() | Bacon-flavored vodka. [YesButNoYes] |
![]() | The latest anti-ageing food? Pigs' trotters. [Telegraph] |
![]() | "Lizard Man" returns? [Wis10] |
![]() | Eur-eek-a! The moment a pupil jumps 40ft from crane with only helium balloons to keep her afloat. [DailyMail] |
Labels: Leftovers
A 101-year-old man has his sights on the London Marathon in a bid to become the world's oldest competitive runner.
It would of course be technically nonsensical to describe this creature as a "six-legged octopus".
A robotic spacecraft circling Mars has snapped the first image of a series of active avalanches near the planet's north pole, scientists said Monday.Labels: Astronomy
![]() | The toilet that comes with speakers and a Macbook Air docking slot. [Air Poo] |
![]() | Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why. With video! [Wsj] |
![]() | The American company UniModal Transport Solutions developed a concept for a very high-capacity and high-speed Personal Rapid Transport (PRT) network. [The Contaminated] |
![]() | Electronic tattoo display runs on blood. [Physorg] |
![]() | A balloon tank. [Ingesidee] |
![]() | Imagine going into surgery and feeling almost everything. Jessica Schambach talks to a man who lived that terrifying experience. [YouTube] |
![]() | Famous assassinations: Who could doctors save today? [BillingsGazette] |
Labels: Leftovers
Instead of marble or bronze, he sculpts using discarded food and electric cable. And, rather than a hammer and chisel, he carves his works using his teeth.
Two German air force sergeants are facing a court martial after trying to mass produce sausages made with the blood of their comrades.Labels: Food
A hospital builder has been sacked after being caught having sex with a Henry the hoover.
Crystal Socha, 26, of Augusta, Kan., shows her American Paint horse, Summer, during the 11th annual EquiFest of Kansas at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. Eleven-year-old Summer holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the longest tail on a horse, at twelve feet, six inches.


Labels: Animal, Feats and Record
![]() | Eggs in peril! [Flickr] |
![]() | K-3PO papercraft model. [Gizmodo] |
![]() | This scene shows an extraordinary community at work - thousands of king penguins instinctively herding their recently born young into giant huddles to stop them freezing to death. [DailyMail] |
![]() | A new U.S. Navy ship to be christened Saturday was built partly using steel from the 9/11 ruins of the World Trade Center. [Fox News] |
Labels: Leftovers
The geoduck or gooyduck is the largest species of clams on the face of the earth. The clam itself is 15 to 20 cm long, which is pretty big but the really impressive part is its long siphon that often reaches one meter in length. it weighs between 0.5 and 1.5 kilograms, but there have been stories about 7.5 kg heavy gooyducks.
Watch this USB Exercise Dog as he relentlessly rips his abs to perfection! You can actually see his wash-board like ripped abs! The world would be a very dull place if it wasn't for the inventors out there with enough time on their hands to come up with something so stratospherically pointless as this USB Dogs. Well you've got to do something with your USB ports, so you might as well have a laugh with them. Pop this muscle pup into your PC's USB port and watch as he starts high-speed-pumping on your machine, yes really.Labels: Gadgets