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$5,000 For A Burger In Las Vegas 2008-05-17 11:40:05 If you love burgers and have $5,000 to spare then you need to hurry up to the Mandalay Bay resort, Las Vegas
. The French restaurant Fleur de Lys is now serving a burger which is called “Fleurburger 5000″ and is the brainchild of French chef Hubert Keller. It consists of Kobe Beef patty and its [...] Read more:Burger
, Las Vegas
US Woman Sells Her Blood To Pay For Gasoline 2008-05-17 11:20:07 The woman in the video above has to sell her blood (plasma to be more precise) in order to be able to pay for gasoline. It seems that they $3+ per gallon that they pay in the US is too much for the people on low salaries. Wait till you see the $8+ per gallon [...] Read more:Blood
, Gasoline
Sexy Soapy Sumos Splash Subaru 2008-05-17 11:10:09 [photo via]
Its seems that advertisers are now doing anything possible to get the message across and create an advert campaign that will be stuck to peoples minds for a long time.
In this advert we see topless Asians washing a 4×4 Subaru
. Well actually they are Sumo fighters and the advert is hilarious!
See the video below
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Jessica Alba In Stare Competition 2008-05-16 10:30:35 Jessica Alba decided to take up the challenge and take part in an online stare competition. The contest is part of the ibeatyou advert campaign and its very nice.
I am sure that most people will see the video and certainly beat her as its very difficult to close your eyes and avoid staring at [...] Read more:Jessica
, Stare
, Jessica Alba
3M’s Mini Projector Will Land On Samsung Phones 2008-05-16 10:15:41 Its seems that the latest gadget will be the mini-projector. 3M is the company behind this technology and Samsung
seems to be the first of their customers that will place this on their mobile phones. This of course will come with a price. It is expected that this will add up $200 - $400 to [...] Read more:Projector
, Phones
Man Puts His Wife On Auction (eBay) 2008-05-16 09:48:47 Paul Osborn, from Bletchley UK, decided to put his wife Sharon, for sale on an eBay auction. In his advert he gives us the reason for doing so:
Here is my lying, cheating, adulterous whore of a wife of 26 years
The bid started a £0.01 and after hundreds of bids it ended up to £750,000, until [...] Read more:Auction
MeatWater: The New Energy Drink With Proteins 2008-05-15 10:30:37 Have you ever heard of meat water? Its a nutritional supplement that does not include just vitamins like most other similar drinks out there. It offers liquid proteins. Its called Krautkr?mer?s MeatWater? High Efficiency Survival Beverage, and it promises to deliver all the essentials for you to keep on having a athletic lifestyle.
The difference it [...] Read more:Energy
, Drink
Fusion Man Flies Over The Alps With Rocket Propelled Wings 2008-05-15 09:40:52 Bex, Switzerland: The ex air force - and current Swiss International Airways - pilot, Yves Rossy flew over the Alps with, his own invention, the rocket propelled wings.
Fusion Man, as he is called in his home town, flew his self made device on Wednesday after years of planning and a $190,000 so far budget [...] Read more:Flies
, Wings
SkyPlay Photos The New Cool Trend 2008-05-15 09:15:14 The concept behind SkyPlay is similar to the “Holding the sun” photos that flooded the Internet few weeks back.
All you have to do is take a picture of a sky with clouds that gives the illusion that its man made.
You can find more photos here or in google images and flickr.
[via]
Selsam’s SuperTurbines Promise Better Efficiency For Wind Farms 2008-05-15 09:10:03 Lately a lot has been written in press regarding new renewable systems (1, 2) that promise through their innovation to change our lives. Selsam?s SuperTurbines deliver just that and it probably one of the most promising new ideas. It flows on the idea that the higher you go the faster the wind is, so the [...] Read more:Efficiency
, Farms
India: Freedom Of Speech Shaken After Orkut Member Arrest 2008-05-18 13:45:49 [photo via]
Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid from Gurgaon, Haryana (Pune, India
), was arrested today for creating an Orkut
community named ?I hate Sonia Gandhi? and posting derogatory content about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi
He was arrested not for hating Sonia Gandhi, as this falls under the category of personal opinion which is not an [...] Read more:Freedom
, Speech
, Shaken
, Member
, Arrest
Garry Kasparov Attacked By Flying RC Penis 2008-05-20 06:30:04 Garry Kasparov
is the leader of the Other Russia movement, and a famous chess player. During one of his speeches on Saturday, he was “attacked” by a penis shaped RC helicopter. The 700 people that attended the meeting were shocked when this flying penis started buzzing towards Kasparov.
It is speculated that this joke was conducted [...] Read more:Attacked
, Flying
, Penis
OLED Passports By Samsung 2008-05-20 03:20:03 Samsung SDI and Bundesdruckerei from Germany, have designed a passport with a 700 ?m polycarbonate data page. This new travel document will feature an active matrix bendable 300 ?m OLED display which will show airport officials info and pictures related to the passport holder.
The ePassport does generate concerns that it can be hacked regardless of [...] Read more:Samsung
Shark Fin Design Helps Generate Electricity 2008-05-21 17:30:02 Sometimes looking and observing nature can give us clues and answers on how to live our lives.
A company called bioPOWER designed the bioSTREAM a tidal power conversion system that is based on the shape of fish fins. In particular the shape of tuna, mackerel and shark fins is used by bioSTREAM. The undersea currents and [...] Read more:Shark
Seasteading: Own Your Own Country 2008-05-21 16:10:49 Did you ever had this dream as a child, to be a king, and emperor or a president of an entire country? Well now is your chance.
A group of ultra rich millionaires have come up with a way to rule your own country, even if its the smallest one on earth. Peter Thiel (Paypal), Wayne [...] Read more:Country
Play Video Games In The Urinal 2008-05-21 05:54:05 Werner Dupont and Bart Geraets from Belgium designed a urinal where you can play video games!
It is called “The Place to Pee” and its is basically a two person chamber where each user can control the game depending on the direction they pee. The video games available is an alien shooter and a ski emulator. [...] Read more:Games
, Urinal
Life limits on web 2.0 2008-05-22 19:44:01 Life limits are different among the most known web services
Yahoo accepts registrations for people over 150 years old
Microsoft accepts registrations for people over 113 years old
Facebook accepts registrations for people over 108 years old
Youtube accepts invitations for people over 107 years old
Myspace accepts registrations for people over 100 years old
Mother Sells Her Baby On eBay 2008-05-25 05:30:38 Police in the Bavarian town of Krumbach, Germany, could not believe their ears when people started calling them and reporting that someone is selling a baby on eBay!
After investigation the police discovered that indeed an eBay advert was posted to sell a 7 month old boy for 1 euro. The baby is now under the [...]
Eurovision 2008 Final Songs On Google Maps 2008-05-24 13:35:17 Tonight is the night that the whole (?) of Europe is sitting behind their TV’s and anxiously (?) wait for the Eurovision
Contest. So I thought of creating a map with all the contestant countries and their respective videos.
Good Luck to everyone!
View Larger Map Read more:Final
, Google
, Google Maps
Lost Parrot Tells Authorities His Name And Address 2008-05-24 05:45:22 [photo via]
Police in Nagareyama, a city near Tokyo, found a lost parrot and surrendered it to the nearest veterinary hospital to hold till they find its owner. Little did they knew that to find where the parrots lives, all they had to do was just ask the parrot!
In the presence of the vet the parrot [...] Read more:Parrot
, Address
Condom Fashion Show 2008-05-26 18:30:46 What were they thinking when they came up with this idea?
During the 4th China Reproductive Health New Technologies & Products Expo (Beijing), models paraded wearing dresses made from condoms.
Guilin Latex, who is China’s largest condom manufacturer organised this event to promote the use of condoms to battle HIV/AIDS.
Not sure who on earth will wear such [...] Read more:Condom
, Fashion
Fourth Severed Foot Found Washed Ashore In Vancouver 2008-05-26 18:22:49 Police in Vancouver
, British Columbia are baffled by the fact that they discovered yet another foot that was washed ashore.
The severed foot was found in a shoe on an uninhabited island near Vancouver (Strait of Georgia) and its the fourth one to be found during the last 10 months
So far connecting the feet found with [...] Read more:Severed
Wedding During The Sichuan Earthquake 2008-05-26 18:10:22 I just came across a set of pictures of a wedding that took place during the 8 Richter Sichuan earthquake, China. The couple and their guests were extremely lucky to have survived this horrible event that has taken the life’s of 65,000 people and left many more injured and homeless.
The 100 year old Church of [...] Read more:Earthquake
64 Year Old Skydiver Will Dive From 40Km To Break Record 2008-05-26 13:10:14 In a few hours 64 year old French skydiver Michel Fournier will attempt to break a world record. He will climb up to 40 kilometers, in a balloon, above Canada and will jump!
This jump will take place at an altitude about 4 times higher than commercial airplanes fly at.
North Battleford, in Saskatchewan, is all geared [...] Read more:Break
, Record
UNASUR: South American Regional Union Is Now Established 2008-05-26 12:15:45 It seems that the example of the European Union
is being repeated and this time a few thousand miles away, in South
America. The twelve most prominent nations in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela) met in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, to form the Union of South [...] Read more:American
, Established
Pig Powder Grows Finger Back Like Salamanders 2008-05-27 17:05:35 Scientists have developed a powder, made from pig tissue, called “pixie dust”, which can be used to re-grow severed members (ie fingers). This dust tends to trick the body to regenerate the missing tissue similarly to a salamander.
First person to try this new technique is US Army Sgt. Shiloh Harris, who lost his finger from [...] Read more:Powder
Jumping Over Babies In Spanish Festival 2008-05-27 15:20:51 [photo via]
In a previous article we reported babies in India being thrown from 50 feet. Babies
go through an equally scary test in Castrillo de Murcia, Spain, where grownups dressed as devils jump over them. This happens annually since 1620 during the Corpus Christi festival. This “jump” takes place to scare the devil away from [...] Read more:Jumping
, Spanish
, Festival
First Solar-Powered Speedboat Is Here 2008-05-27 14:55:10 The Dutch Czeers MK1 combines not only great design but also carbon neutral performance. Its about 10 meter (30 feet) long and can reach 55km/h with out any need for refuelling! It is covered with solar/photovoltaic panels that power it up.
I am very curious to see the price that czeers will announce for this boat. [...] Read more:First
, Solar
Phoenix Landed And Send The First Photos From Mars 2008-05-27 14:30:04 Phoenix has landed on Mars and has already send the first photos. You can see them here and then help everyone to locate the next “Martian proof of life”
See the video below Read more:First
, Phoenix
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