Nov 1, 1999
With This Ring ...
Artists put cow on 10 storey building
A cow is living on top of a ten storey building in Santiago in a work of performance art.
It was kidnapped on its way to a slaughter house by a group of artists who won't reveal their names.
The cow was lifted by crane on to the top of the building in the Chilean capital, reports Las Ultimas Noticias.
It will live on the 1,500sq ft rooftop, which has been remodelled as a farm, for a week.
The cow will be cared for and milked daily during the week and afterwards the artists plan to release it on a nature reserve.
A spokesperson for the group said: "We want to question the limits of the art creation. People think art is only what is in the galleries but that is not true."
[technorati tags: cow, living on top, building, Santiago, , performance art, stupid]
Not your everyday 'Skunk bites man' story
Every time Carol Infalt's phone rings, she's not sure if it's going to be condolences for her deceased skunk or a joke about her husband's formerly private parts.
She's been getting a lot of both since Ozzie the pet skunk paid the ultimate price for biting Dan Infalt's penis.
I think it's a Freudian typo, but in an e-mail to my newspaper Carol said, "This is when the hole disaster starts."
While the embarrassing news crackled over the emergency scanner, Dan was rushed to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital last week.
At that same moment, Department of Natural Resources warden David Walz was heading for the Infalts' Jefferson County home to take Ozzie into custody. The animal quickly was euthanized so it could be tested for rabies, which has stirred up the skunk-loving community.
At least he doesn't have rabies.She's been getting a lot of both since Ozzie the pet skunk paid the ultimate price for biting Dan Infalt's penis.
I think it's a Freudian typo, but in an e-mail to my newspaper Carol said, "This is when the hole disaster starts."
While the embarrassing news crackled over the emergency scanner, Dan was rushed to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital last week.
At that same moment, Department of Natural Resources warden David Walz was heading for the Infalts' Jefferson County home to take Ozzie into custody. The animal quickly was euthanized so it could be tested for rabies, which has stirred up the skunk-loving community.
[technorati tags: everyday, Skunk, bites, man, story, deceased, stupid]
Tasmanian paper made from 'roo poo
 25kg of kangaroo manure makes 400 sheets of paper |
"It's a great product for tourists, but it's also something that gets our eco-friendly message home to a lot of people," said Joanne Gair, manager of Creative Paper Tasmania.
Australian experience - paper made from kangaroo manure.[technorati tags: Tasmanian, paper, made, from, roo, poo, kangaroo, manure]
Meat Madness
Okay, here's what I'm talking about. I just recently discovered this wonderful site about The Meat Cyborg. And you click on the circles to learn more about that area of the cyborg. As I was clicking on the link for the hand, I realized this is where the website Meat Gloves got its image. And I first found out about the Meat Gloves site from the owner of the original HATS of MEAT site. Which was one of the reasons I started posting content to this site in the first place. See? It's all one beautiful, meaty circle.
Not really one for vegetarians.
[technorati tags: Meat, Madness, gloves, vegetarians, stupid]
It's Pancake Day
Or Shrove Tuesday.
In the Derbyshire town of Ashbourne, every Shrove Tuesday they play a bizarre game of football, involving the Up'ards and the Down'ards, with the goals three miles apart.
[technorati tags: Pancake, Day, bizarre, game, football, stupid]
Sep 1, 1999
Karaoke Muzzle
[technorati tags: karaoke, muzzle, karaoke squawk, gadget, stupid]
Self-lighting cigarette
Smokers, breathe easy (if you still can) — technology has finally solved the pressing problem of not being able to light up on a windy day. Israeli company Gashbam Enterprises has invented a self-lighting cigarette — which also solves the problem of forgetting your lighter or using the last match. The sulphur and phosphorous-anointed tip turns the cigarette into a device operated just like a match, so you can strike it against a rough surface on the side of the pack to get it lit. To prevent breakage, the cigs are reinforced with bamboo and tobacoo leaf slivers. There ya go, smokers — cancer risk remains, but at least no more will you be at risk of singeing your eyebrows while trying to light up in a wind tunnel. Self-lighting cigaretteSandia’s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory generated temperatures of greater than 2 billion degrees Kelvin, hotter than the interior of the sun. To do it, they fired up their Z Machine accelerator, seen here in operation, to produce incredibly hot plasmas. From the Sandia news release:
The unexpectedly hot output, if its cause were understood and harnessed, could eventually mean that smaller, less costly nuclear fusion plants would produce the same amount of energy as larger plants.
The phenomena also may explain how astrophysical entities like solar flares maintain their extreme temperatures.
The very high radiation output also creates new experimental environments to help validate computer codes responsible for maintaining a reliable nuclear weapons stockpile safely and securely — the principal mission of the Z facility.
“At first, we were disbelieving,” says Sandia project lead Chris Deeney. “We repeated the experiment many times to make sure we had a true result and not an ‘Ooops’!”
Sandia’s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin
[technorati tags: Sandia, machine, billion, degrees, Kelvin]
Crazy Kent - He likes having his picture taken in bins.
Sometimes, after giggling at a gag site, your mind drifts to logistics of how one would pull off such a long-running stunt. Imagine dragging a trash can to each of the 50 states plus the United Kingdom. Then think about working through the details of getting somebody to take a picture of you in said trash can - and not getting run over if you were, say, in it in the middle of a highway. Or over in Centro Ybor in Tampa. Kent is indeed crazy.Facet makes water look like Laser
Well almost - but you can for sure impress your plumber.
More: Blue LED Faucet LightTired of that same old monotonous water? Bored with water that doesn't look like futuristic alien mouthwash? Need to make your midnite bathroom appointments more exhilarating? Then you need to get the blue LED faucet attachment from ThinkGeek. You can turn any faucet in your home into a streaming blue lagoon of techie-bliss in just minutes. How does it work? Just attach to the end of your faucet (universal adapters included), and when the water flows through the magic chamber, it simply turns on the blue LED array and illuminates the stream with a soothingly powerful crystal blue hue.
True Facts... Maybe
These facts are not guaranteed to be true. But they probably are.
Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
All of David Letterman's suits are custom made; there are no creases in his suit trousers.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
More "True Facts"
Hewlett Packard's first product was an automatic urinal flusher.
All of David Letterman's suits are custom made; there are no creases in his suit trousers.
Cranberry Jell-O is the only flavor that contains real fruit flavoring.
Fewer than half of the 16,200 major league baseball players have ever hit a home run.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
Richard Versalle, a tenor performing at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, suffered a heart attack and fell 10 feet from a ladder to the stage just after singing the line "You can only live so long."
If the entire population of earth was reduced to exactly 100 people, 51% would be female, 49% male; 50% of the world's currency would be held by 6 people, one person would be nearly dead, one nearly born.
In 1920, Babe Ruth out-homered every American League team.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
Toxic house plants poison more children than household chemicals.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
More "True Facts"
[technorati tags: true facts, true, facts, gossip, celebrity, celebrity gossip, stupid]
The Noise Shirt and its hanger/charger
The Tampere University of Technology is working on machine washable and wirelessly rechargeable wearable technology.
They prototyped a Noise Shirt which has a microphone that measures the surrounding environments noise level and displays it as a vertical 5 step equalizer bar with the LEDs. Each LED marks a rise above a certain decibel level. The three lower LEDs go from 65dB to 84dB. The top two LEDs mark a noise level exceeding 85dB and 100dB. Continuous exposure exceeding 85dB is the limit set by the European Union for recommended use of hearing protection.
The device has a small battery with a wireless recharging induction loop in the neck tab. The garment is functional whenever charged and won’t require any user input.
The team created a special clothes hanger for wirelessly recharging the shirt. The hanger is shaped to make the shirt’s neck tab drape over the hanger neck, to make the two inductive coils meet.
The system takes about 3 hours to recharge the empty Lithium-polymer battery and depending on the amount of ambient noise the Noise Shirt will run from 2 to 4 hours.
The next step in the research is using wireless communications and a mobile user interface in order to access services and applications produced outside the garment.
[technorati tags: wireless, communications, shirt, recharge, battery, clothes, shirts, stupid]
What's Next in Gadgets
Periodical Time did a small survey of new Gadets, which will be launched in the market in the near future.
E-mail can be read only when a laptop is open, right? Microsoft's proposed solution is SideShow. Laptop makers are planning to design small screens on the outer body so you can read incoming messages or choose music without opening the case. SideShow will be supported by the Windows Vista operating system, launching this year.
The 2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a radar-guided park-assist option too, as well as a "night view assist." By shining invisible headlight- mounted infrared beams up to 500 ft. ahead of the car, it can display a black-and-white nightscope view on the dashboard.
2007 S550 available this month; $85,400.
Some camcorders have ditched the tape, relying instead on internal memory. Others capture high-definition video for playback on big-screen TVs. Sanyo put both innovations into its Xacti HD1, which also features a next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display.
This month; $800.
Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard
Soft Hardware. You may have heard about the jacket with iPod controls stitched to the sleeve. Eleksen, the maker of "electroconductive" fabric products, now wants to introduce a qwerty keyboard that you can roll up and put in your pocket. The ElekTex keyboard will use Bluetooth technology to connect wirelessly to PDAs and smart phones.
June 2006; $150.
Fly coach, and the dream of watching movies on your laptop quickly fades, thanks to the reclining seat in front of you. Intel's new laptop design lets you pull the screen forward from behind the keyboard and even raise the screen to eye level. Elements of the design may appear this year in laptops priced at $1,100 and higher made by Intel partners.
Samsung's SGH-P300 is slimmer than Motorola's Razr. Its thickness is slightly less than 9 mm. It looks like a pocket calculator, but it's a tri-band world phone with a built-in MP3 player and 1.3-megapixel camera with video-recording capability.
Now in Europe, $600 to $700; coming soon to the U.S.
Robosapien maker WowWee Robotics teamed up with Philips to build the Smart Companion Operating Technology. SCOTY (pronounced Scotty) is a camera- and Wi-Fi—equipped butler who sits in your living room, obeying voice commands to play specific music, read new e-mail and even report intruders.
September 2006; $400.
Blue is cold, red is hot—any kid knows that. So Delta developed the Brizo bath faucet, which uses lighting to change the water color depending on the temperature; it prevents children and the elderly from accidental scalding. The electronic faucet can be turned off or on with a touch, or with a wave of the hand.
Available within two years; $300 to $500.
It was perhaps inevitable that Honda, with experience in safety technology and motorcycle design, would be the first to introduce a motorcycle air bag commercially. If crash sensors mounted on the front fork detect an impact, a computer quickly decides whether to deploy the bag. Honda Gold Wings will offer air bags as early as this spring.
E-mail can be read only when a laptop is open, right? Microsoft's proposed solution is SideShow. Laptop makers are planning to design small screens on the outer body so you can read incoming messages or choose music without opening the case. SideShow will be supported by the Windows Vista operating system, launching this year.
The 2007 Mercedes-Benz S-Class has a radar-guided park-assist option too, as well as a "night view assist." By shining invisible headlight- mounted infrared beams up to 500 ft. ahead of the car, it can display a black-and-white nightscope view on the dashboard.
2007 S550 available this month; $85,400.
Some camcorders have ditched the tape, relying instead on internal memory. Others capture high-definition video for playback on big-screen TVs. Sanyo put both innovations into its Xacti HD1, which also features a next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display.
This month; $800.
Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard
Soft Hardware. You may have heard about the jacket with iPod controls stitched to the sleeve. Eleksen, the maker of "electroconductive" fabric products, now wants to introduce a qwerty keyboard that you can roll up and put in your pocket. The ElekTex keyboard will use Bluetooth technology to connect wirelessly to PDAs and smart phones.
June 2006; $150.
Fly coach, and the dream of watching movies on your laptop quickly fades, thanks to the reclining seat in front of you. Intel's new laptop design lets you pull the screen forward from behind the keyboard and even raise the screen to eye level. Elements of the design may appear this year in laptops priced at $1,100 and higher made by Intel partners.
Samsung's SGH-P300 is slimmer than Motorola's Razr. Its thickness is slightly less than 9 mm. It looks like a pocket calculator, but it's a tri-band world phone with a built-in MP3 player and 1.3-megapixel camera with video-recording capability.
Now in Europe, $600 to $700; coming soon to the U.S.
Robosapien maker WowWee Robotics teamed up with Philips to build the Smart Companion Operating Technology. SCOTY (pronounced Scotty) is a camera- and Wi-Fi—equipped butler who sits in your living room, obeying voice commands to play specific music, read new e-mail and even report intruders.
September 2006; $400.
Blue is cold, red is hot—any kid knows that. So Delta developed the Brizo bath faucet, which uses lighting to change the water color depending on the temperature; it prevents children and the elderly from accidental scalding. The electronic faucet can be turned off or on with a touch, or with a wave of the hand.
Available within two years; $300 to $500.
Biscuit-eating dummy tests crumbs
Experts have invented a mannequin with a motorised mouth to test the amount of crumbs biscuits produce.Staff at the Mcvitie's laboratory in High Wycombe, Bucks, designed the Crumb Test Dummy to test which baking techniques produce the most crumbs.
The motorised mannequin has plastic teeth and is designed to replicate human eating.
A Mcvities spokeswoman said the crumbs produced by a biscuit show if it has been cooked to perfection.
"Eating lots of biscuits is obviously an enjoyable prospect for most people but we haven't yet found a human who can test on this scale," Mcvitie's brand manager Liz Ashdown added.
"The Crumb Test Dummy has a never-ending appetite and doesn't need to stop for breath."
The motorised mannequin has plastic teeth and is designed to replicate human eating.
A Mcvities spokeswoman said the crumbs produced by a biscuit show if it has been cooked to perfection.
"Eating lots of biscuits is obviously an enjoyable prospect for most people but we haven't yet found a human who can test on this scale," Mcvitie's brand manager Liz Ashdown added.
"The Crumb Test Dummy has a never-ending appetite and doesn't need to stop for breath."
Jul 1, 1999
Dog Bark Park Inn
Dog Bark Park Inn is a bed and breakfast guesthouse in the body of the World's Biggest Beagle located at Dog Bark Park on Hwy 95 at Cottonwood, Idaho. Guests enter the body of the beagle from a private spacious 2nd story deck. Inside and up another level in the head of the dog are a loft room for additional sleeping accommodations and a cozy reading nook in the dog's muzzle.I like to inhale my Alcohol
I actually have seen people (2 girls in moscow) inhaling some kind of hard liquer. They set the alc on fire, covered it up and stuck a straw in in from the site .. and inhaled.
Then they went crazy and pulled on each other hair <---- kidding!
Now there is some kind a machine to do the same thing:
A new way of consuming alcohol that offers an immediate hit with no hangover the next day has been introduced in the United Kingdom.The new method is known as AWOL, an acronym for 'Alcohol With Out Liquid', and could become a hit in the global club scene due to the euphoric 'high' created when alcohol is vaporised, mixed with oxygen and inhaled.
[technorati tags: inhale, alcohol, liquid, vaporised, stupid]
Human Clock
Photos of the current time displayed in various ways.Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time, with the photo changing every minute of the day (all 1,440 occuring minutes on Earth!) Thus you end up with a rotating picture clock sorta deal.
Updates every minute.
Christmas Lights Gone Wild
Christmas Lights Gone Wild (see the movie)
Youtube comment:
Wow, this thing has really gone crazy with the viewers. Let me first start by saying that this is not my house. Regardless of what any of the comments read, this house really does exist, I have seen it with my own eyes and nothing you see in the video is trickery, it's all real. The house is located outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. The music is by Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Weirdomusic
More weird music, more mp3 downloads.Exotica? Easy Listening? Outsider Music? Space Age Pop? Library Music? Incredibly Strange Music? Whatever it is that you're looking for, weirdomusic.com will try to point you in the right direction.
[technorati tags: exotica, listening, outsider music, space age pop, librarymusic, strange, music]
Why Not Open Source Movement
How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
Ever been in line at the grocery store, sitting in a meeting, refinancing your mortgage, programming your VCR and thought to yourself: 'there must be a better way to do this!' Yale economics professor Barry Nalebuff and Yale law professor Ian Ayers reveal simple tools that can help you dream up ingenious ideas for changing how we work, shop, live, and govern.While most of us equate innovation with high-tech breakthroughs discovered by rocket scientists, the truth is that many important ideas are the result of good, old-fashioned ingenuity, and everyday innovators like you and me. Think right on red, rolling luggage, spinning toothbrushes, or even prewashed lettuce, now a billion dollar business.
Bird Brain
Benjamin Verdonck, from Belgium, will live in the specially constructed nest halfway up the Rotunda from Saturday as part of the city's Fierce! art event.
"It's the tragic story of a man who comes, sees and in a final attempt to embrace his audience eventually falls," Mr Verdonck said.
Organisers say he has access to basic amenities his nest is well feathered.
'Talking point'
Mark Ball, from Fierce! told BBC News he was keen for people to enjoy art to not just see it in theatres and galleries.
"I first saw this project in Belgium last year and it was such a fantastic project it became a talking point of the whole city - I just had to bring it to Birmingham, " he said.
"He plays a man who tries to take flight and he will be doing different things each day - sitting on the nest and a golden egg will appear.
"What he is interested in and what Fierce! is interested in is making art fun and accessible and taking it out of the theatres and galleries."
Cranes helped move the nest into place on Friday morning.
Mr Verdonck, an actor and graduate, has previously performed various pieces in public spaces and he describes his work as "poor white trash entertainment".
[technorati tags: entertainment, performance, artist, bird, brain, stupid]
The "PISS PAK" (Australian Beer)
Now you can enjoy the great taste of Piss and Piss Weak regardless of where you live. The Piss Pak was developed in response to the massive demand we have received both in Australia and overseas for these distinctive brands, and we now offer delivery to your door anywhere in the world. Presented in a stylish gift box, the Piss Pak contains a T-shirt, a stubby holder and one bottle each of Piss and PissWeak
[technorati tags: PISS PAK, Beer, Australian Beer]
Mar 1, 1999
Ethical Dilemma
You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus:
- an old lady who looks as if she is about to die
- an old friend who once saved your life
- the perfect partner you have been dreaming about
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car?
Think before you continue reading….
This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.
You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first.
Or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back.
However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate again.
The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble coming up with his answer. He simply answered:
“I would give the car keys to my old friend and let him take the old lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.”
Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought limitations. Never forget to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!
However, the correct answer, in men opinion J, is to run the old lady over and put her out of her misery, have sex with the perfect partner against the bus stop sign, then drive off with the old friend for some beers.
How Not to Act in a Job Interview
Here are some great examples of strange behaviour during job interviews.
You would think that any normal person would know better, but apparently not. Here are some examples of hilariously bad behavior interviewers report as actually happening during interviews with potential job candidates.
This list came to us as a survey of top personnel executives from 100 major US corporations--the question was about unusual behavior by job applicants. Whether they're real or not, it's a fun way to illustrate how not to behave.
You would think that any normal person would know better, but apparently not. Here are some examples of hilariously bad behavior interviewers report as actually happening during interviews with potential job candidates.
This list came to us as a survey of top personnel executives from 100 major US corporations--the question was about unusual behavior by job applicants. Whether they're real or not, it's a fun way to illustrate how not to behave.
[technorati tags: strange behaviour, job interviews, job, yilarious, stupid]
Receptacle Assembly for Receiving Canine Fecal Matter
If you dog is not already toilet trained, diapers may be in order, that is, if you are an owner that does not believe in the right to mark one's terrirtory or to eat one's own poop.
[technorati tags: Receptacle, Assembly, Receiving, Canine, Fecal, Matter]
24 American Idol Look Alikes
Television juggurnaunt, “American Idol”, is well underway. 35 million people will watch three times a week as Randy, Paula, Simon, and the viewing public slowly axe the 24 contestants down to one lucky person guaranteed to reach the fame and fortune so afforded to previous Idol winners like Ruben Studdard and Fantasia Barrino. For now, however, 24 quasi-deserving individuals will bask in the bright lights of their 15 minutes of fame. Never one to ignore pop culture, we here at C&V got our cogs turning on season 5’s contestants for a big round of pseudo-celebrity look alikes. Click below for some wholesome fun.
Bobby Bennett & Fats Domino 
Heather Cox & Mena Suvari 
Jose ‘Sway’ Penala & Odd Job 
Kevin Covais & Piglet 
Will “Marklar” Makar & Fred Savage 
Mandisa & Grimace. Neither have a last name. 
Patrick Hall & Mr. Mackey 
David Radford & Colin Hanks 
Bucky Covington & Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. Tools of a feather, flock together. 
Lisa Tucker & Lionel Ritchie 
Ace Young & “Giant Douche” 
Ace’s rival, Gedeon McKinney & “Giant Douch’s” rival, “Turd Sandwich” 
Kellie Pickler & Dan’s future wife 
Brenna Gethers & Veronica (of Archie comics) 
Melissa McGhee & The Runaway Bride, Jennifer Willbanks 
Elliot Yamin & The Incredibles’ Underminer 
Kinnik Sky & Nien Nunb (Of Star Wars) 
Stevie Scott & Lea Thompson (aka - Marty’s Mom) 
Paris Bennett & Gary Coleman 
Katharine McPhee & Amanda Bynes 
Chirs Daughtry & a cue ball 
Becky O’Donohe & Heaven 
Princess Ayla Brown & Warrior Mulan 
Taylor Hicks & Finding Nemo’s Bloat 
Puala Abdul & Barry Bonds
Why? How? Click here.
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