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30 November, 2007

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The South Korean man whose death was initially blamed on an exploding cell phone battery appears to have died from another cause. [Yahoo News]
Bicycles fitted with powerful speakers. [New York Times]
Woman with two wombs gave birth to two healthy babies. [Mirror]
Woman’s boob job from 36A to 36DD - and the effect it had on men (and women). [DailyMail]
Bugs you can eat. [Nova]
Top 10 food and drink hacks. [Lifehacker]
The best beer in the world is brewed by monks at St. Sixtus monastery. [Wsj]
Incredible flip book animation recreates robot battle. [Techeblog]

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Barf Bags Don't Work at 0 Gs


This girl vomits into an air sickness bag but ended up in a mess.

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Scientists Close To Finding Elixir of Youth

FaceScientists believe they have unlocked the secret of younger-looking skin in a development which raises the prospect of an elixir of youth.

The researchers were able to rejuvenate the skin of elderly mice by blocking the activity of a single gene. Not only did the skin of the two-year-old mice appear more youthful, but at a biological level they resembled newborns.

Howard Chang, from the Stanford School of Medicine in California, who led the research, said the findings showed ageing could be temporarily reversed. "These findings suggest that ageing is not just a result of wear and tear, but is also the consequence of a continually active genetic program that might be blocked for improving human health," he said.

However, there is no telling what long-term harmful side effects might result from tinkering with the gene, NF-kappa-B. The protein made by the gene has roles in a number of body functions including the immune system, and may help fight cancer or other diseases, the researchers said.

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Diamond-Studded Collar

Diamond-studded collarA dog by the name of Ritchie models a diamond-studded collar worth £500,000 ($1.03m) at Harrods department store, London.

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Pencil Bench

Pencil Bench
Boex 3D Creative Solutions designed this award winning quirky bench. The seat is made up of 1600 pencils which are individually sprung. Each pencil can be removed and used.

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Woman Paints Plates With Breasts for Charity

Plate painted with breastWomen in a County Durham village are painting plates with their breasts to raise money for charity. They cover their breasts with paint and make imprints on the plates which are then glazed and fired.

"We decided on Breast Cancer Care plates because we have customers who are going through breast cancer. You just want to help, " Joanne Scott, of the Buttercups Ceramic Studio in Hurworth, near Darlington, said. "And this is a fun way to raise money for a good cause."

The women do several designs, including pandas, cherries, Christmas puddings and bumble bees.

Video after the jump.

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Singing Roads of South Korea

Melody roadMelody roads of Japan were featured here previously. Apparently, South Korea also have their very own melody roads.

With 68 percent of highway accidents in Korea caused by inattentive, sleeping or speeding drivers, the Korean Highway Corp., as well as the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in Japan, came up with the idea of musical road surfaces to keep motorists entertained but also to reduce their speed and help them stay alert. On Korean highways, the song of the streets is the simple, yet sweet "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Hit the jump for the video!

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Four-Year-Old Boy Swam In Crocodile-Infested Waters

Daniel Woditj and familyA four-year-old boy has gone on an incredible five-hour adventure where he swam alone in crocodile-infested waters - and locals believe a spirit lured him away from his family.

Daniel left his house after eating breakfast with his family last Monday morning at the Peppimenarti Community, 200km south-west of Darwin. Parents Captain and Mary Woditj, noticed Daniel was missing two hours later and alerted the rest of the community.

After walking for several kilometres, Daniel came to a creek and swam across it. Four of his dogs "bailed up" at the creek but the youngster continued on undaunted with his puppy to a second creek.

Daniel swam the second croc-infested creek and walked on for several more kilometers.

The toddler was found five-and-a-half hours after he set off from his parents' house playing in a creek with his puppy.

Source: Daily Telegraph
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Bracelet Found In Chicken after 25 Years

Olson Locker ownersMore than two decades after Aaron Giles lost his identity bracelet, he’s finding how it was discovered tough to swallow.

A meat cutter at Olson Locker in Fairmont came across the shiny object in a chicken gizzard and saw a name, address and phone number engraved on it.

Giles had lived in Fairmont as a child and played hide-and-seek and other games with his brothers in their grandfather’s barn near Sherburn.

"I would spend most of my time out at his farm, and that’s the only place I can think of that I would have lost it," Giles said about his bracelet on Thursday. The 31-year-old said he thinks the bracelet was lost when he was 4 or 5.

The barn was dismantled a few years ago, and Giles thinks his bracelet was imbedded in materials used to construct another barn in Elmore, about 45 miles away.

The bracelet was found in a chicken that came from an Elmore farm. Olson was able to track down Giles’ father and return the bracelet.

"It was in pretty immaculate shape. Everything was working on it, and all the engravings on it were still legible," Giles said. "It was quite the surprise."

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Woman, 83, Loses Cash in Freak Accident

MoneyMary Olive Corbiere watched helplessly as a delivery truck drove away with her purse and $1,100 of her holiday shopping stash stuck under its wheel.

Corbiere had left a drugstore Tuesday and was putting her bags in her car when a wind gust pushed her shopping cart -- still containing her purse and cane -- into the back of a nearby delivery truck.

The cart somehow became stuck in a rear wheel before the truck pulled away and disappeared into traffic.

"Everything was normal, then I turned around and the cart had taken off," she said.

The cart was dragged for blocks along one of the town's busiest thoroughfares as the truck's driver, oblivious to what had occurred, headed to the next delivery. When the purse finally burst open, witnesses told police strangers stopped and grabbed the fluttering currency that Corbiere had withdrawn that day for holiday shopping and bills.

Officers found Corbiere's tattered checkbook, broken credit card and some other belongings -- but little cash.

Source: Boston
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The Most Expensive Perfume in the World

'No. 1 Perfume' is officially the world's most expensive fragrance. Guinness World Records has put the pricey perfume in its book. One ounce costs about 26-hundred dollars.

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29 November, 2007

More links for 29 Nov 2007

Top 10 bizarre eating habits. [Listverse]
The aftermath of a baseball size hail storm. [Flickr]
Tricks that advertisers use. [Chemistryland]
A white cockroach. [Boing Boing]
How eating a burger and chips can make your baby a boy (and chocolate will produce a girl). [DailyMail]
An ongoing dispute between two Satellite Beach neighbors over an outdoor home security camera has been reignited by a homeowner's large buttocks sign placed in a yard. With video! [Local6]
A council has apologised to an 88-year-old widow after a street cleaner told her she could be fined for sweeping leaves from her porch. [BBC]
Unique, expandable and customizable accent light. With video! [Thinkgeek]
A man won $1 million in the state lottery - and he might not be able to keep it. With video! [Wbztv]
A Greenpeace ad that makes it's point pretty well! NSFW! [Metacafe]
Woman says online activities helped her shed 530 pounds (240kg). With video! [Kttc]

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Wii Horse Racing


A kid plays a Wii racing game by bouncing a toy horse around.

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Santa Forced To Wear a Seatbelt in His 8km/h Sleigh

Santa wearing a seatbeltSanta is being made to belt up - in case he falls off his sleigh whizzing through towns at a top speed of 5 mph (8 km/h). Old Saint Nick was nearly banned from riding on his sleigh when new insurance conditions meant he needed to wear a seatbelt. Luckily a modification to his chariot - in the form of a robust harness - means he can still spread some Christmas cheer.

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Up To No Good at Work? Software Can Analyze Your E-Mails

Software is being designed to allow companies to flag up employees who are potential saboteurs, industrial spies or data thieves. It might also flag up whistle-blowers.

Developed by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, it gauges which topics authors commonly write about. Fed a series of documents, such as academic journal articles, Author-Topic examines the frequency with which words appear in each and uses that to infer which topic that document is about. It then identifies topics that each person writes on most.

Peterson’s team uses the software to analyse emails, rather than articles, and extra software records whether people are sending emails internally or externally. Their system identifies people who are not discussing certain, expected topics - say social activities - with their colleagues, and flags them as possibly feeling alienated. It also identifies those who are discussing sensitive topics externally and classes them as having “clandestine, sensitive interests”. People who are flagged in both categories could pose a risk to a company, say the authors.

In addition to potential saboteurs, the software can also spot whistle-blowers.

Source: EurekAlert
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Cell Phones Help Deliver Baby

iPhoneA Russian woman gave birth by the light of dozens of mobile phones after a power cut plunged a town into darkness.

Emergency generators kicked in to keep incubators going at the local maternity ward at Shelehov in northern Russia.

But the room where Rima Pivovarova, 22, was giving birth was plunged into darkness just as doctors started to try and sort out complications with the delivery.

Quick-thinking nurses borrowed mobile phones from colleagues and other patients and used their light as they delivered the baby.

Nurse Nadezhda Stempkovskaya, who helped deliver the baby, said both mother and son are doing well.

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Venus Has Lightning, Just Like Us

Lightning on VenusVenus is looking a bit more Earth-like, with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe. "We consider this to be the first definitive evidence of abundant lighting on Venus," David Grinspoon, of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, told reporters in Paris yesterday. The finding was significant because lightning affected atmospheric chemistry, so scientists would have to take it into account as they tried to understand the atmosphere and climate of Venus, he said. The lightning was cloud-to-cloud, and about 55 kilometres above the surface.

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The Strongest Beer in the US

Samuel Adams UtopiasHow much would you pay for an exceptional brew? $10 a six-pack? $20 a six-pack? How about $5 an ounce?

That's the minimum going rate for Boston Beer's Samuel Adams Utopias, which retails starting at $120 per 24-ounce bottle.

The country's most expensive beer is also the strongest. The 2007 edition of the vintage-dated biennial release clocks in at 27 percent alcohol by volume, more than five times the proof of the average American golden lager.

The Utopias container, a ceramic bottle molded to resemble a brew kettle, is a collectible in and of itself. The copper-colored liquid inside hasn't a bubble of carbonation. The first sensations are a viscous mouth feel and a sweet sherrylike flavor with nuances of toffee and maple. There are notes of vanilla and plum and a hint of charred wood. A long, lingering alcohol burn, more reminiscent of a cognac or brandy than a beer, is followed by a sweet burned-caramel aftertaste.

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A City Made From Cookies

City of cookiesA miniature model city of Shenyang with a dimension of 5 meter long by 5 meter wide and made out of 25,000 pieces of cookies were on display at a hotel lobby in Beijing, China. The tallest building stands at 2.5 meters high and more than 1,000kg of Christmas cookies were used in making this city. Its builder has applied for a Guinness World Record.

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Dogs Guard Master for 3 Weeks after Death


Two dogs have shown an amazing devotion to their master, to their own detriment. Gary Lorenz disappeared in September from his home in Cotopaxi, which is between Salida and Canon City. His body was found surrounded by his dogs, Pippin and Merry. The golden retrievers stayed with their master, guarding his body, for at least three weeks after he died. They lost about 9 pounds each but vets say they are healthy.

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Judge Removed After Jailing Entire Courtroom

Mr RestainoA US judge has been removed from the bench for jailing 46 people after none of them admitted responsibility for a ringing mobile phone in his courtroom.

The strange incident began when a mobile phone rang and an angry Mr Restaino demanded to know who it belonged to. When no one owned up, Mr Restaino told the court: "Everyone is going to jail". "Every single person is gong to jail in this courtroom unless I get that instrument now.

Despite the threat, no one came forward and the judge ordered that the group be taken into custody. The entire courtroom was taken to the city jail, where they were searched and jammed into crowded cells.

The judge released the defendants later that afternoon after the media began showing interest in the bizarre episode.

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Korean Man 'Killed By Exploding Battery in His Cell Phone'

Cell phoneAn exploding cell phone battery is suspected by police in the death of a South Korean worker, though the phone's manufacturer said it was highly unlikely.

The man, identified only by his family name Suh, was found dead at his workplace on Wednesday morning and his mobile phone battery was melted in his shirt pocket, a police official in Cheongwon said.

“We presume that the cell phone battery exploded," the police official said. The investigation was still under way.

Kim Hoon, a doctor who examined the body, agreed. "He sustained an injury that is similar to a burn in the left chest and his ribs and spine were broken," Kim said. "It is presumed that pressure caused by the explosion damaged his heart and lungs, leading to his death."

Police said the phone was made by South Korea's LG Electronics Inc., the world's fifth-biggest handset maker.

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'Spooky' Face On Skin-Bound Book

SkinbookA "spooky" image of a priest executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book thought to be bound in his skin, it is claimed. Auctioneers said the face of Father Henry Garnet could be seen peering from the cover of the "rare and macabre" book about the Jesuit priest's death. The item will go under the hammer at Wilkinson's Auctioneers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, on Sunday.

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Humanoid Robot Teaches Dentists to Feel People's Pain

Medical simulation robotJapan's future dentists may soon be able to better appreciate patients' pain by training on a humanoid robot that can mumble "ouch" when the drill hits a nerve.

The robot, resembling an attractive young woman with long black hair and a pink sweater, also can listen to instructions and react to pain by moving her eyes or hands.

The medical simulation robot, named "Simroid," is designed to be used for clinical training at dental schools.

The 160-centimeter (five-foot-three) robot can say "it hurts" and frown when it feels uncomfortable from the dental drill. It also has a sensor on the breast area that keeps track if it has been touched inappropriately, an engineer said.


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28 November, 2007

More links for 28 Nov 2007

Man tries to deposit fake $1 Million bill. [Forbes]
Hello Kitty bicycle tires on sale for $26. Scroll down! [Nirve]
The businessman who donates all profits. [HeraldNet]
The Star Wars mimobot Series 2 usb flash drives introduces four new characters to the mimobot family: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and bounty hunter extraordinaire. Scroll down! [Mimobots, Thanks Jennifer!]
Today, countries battle for a piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The moon. [Wired]
During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. [Microsoft]
Man takes computer cooling way too far. [Geekologie]
Scientists have managed to restore a sense of touch to two patients with prosthetic arms, in what is seen as a step towards creating sensitive limbs. [BBC]
Find out how many of your favorite alcoholic beverages it would take to send you to a drunken grave. [Justsayhi]

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Dare-Devil Stunts

StuntsStuntmen perform on their motorbikes and car on the walls of the "Well of Death" at a fair on the outskirts of Jammu November 28, 2007. The stuntmen earn their livelihood by performing dare-devil stunts by driving their bikes and cars on the walls of the "Well of Death" and attracting a large number of spectators from all walks of life.

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Sculpture Made From Typewriter Parts

typewriter sculptureAn awesome sculpture made from the parts of a typewriter.

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The Bling Fling Trick


Learn how to perform two great street magic tricks and impress your friends with it.

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Unconventional Dance Moves


Two guys with hilarious dance moves ranging from installing "The New Light Bulb" to flinging "The Wii Remote"!

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Model Ship Made From Bones and Human Hair Goes To Auction

Model HMS Victory A model of the British Royal Navy ship HMS Victory made out of beef bones and human hair will go under the hammer today.

The 28in long model, which was made by French prisoners-of-war incarcerated in British jails during the Napoleonic Wars, will go on auction at Bonhams and is expected to fetch up to £30,000 ($60,000).

It was built from left-over beef bones from the prisoners' meals to pay for their upkeep. Bones form the hull while human hair was used for the rigging and paper tissue for the flags.

Other details include anchors, belfry and ship's boats. It is even fitted with pull cords with bone finials for operating the guns.

Source: DailyMail
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The Mobile Smoking Shelter

The Mobile Smoking ShelterHotelier Chaz Charlton has invented the mobile smoking shelter. The mobile shelter - available to guests and staff - is an umbrella large and light enough for people to wear to cover their heads and shoulders.

Portland born and raised Mr Charlton, 41, said the idea was born of necessity. He said: "Basically, there was a planning issue when it came to putting up a smoking shelter. "Plus, the Clifton gets strong winds coming off the cliffs from behind the hotel, so we couldn't put a shelter up there or out the front.

"So we came up with these shelters as a way for people to stand out the front and smoke and not worry about the wind and rain so much."

The hotel now provides boxes filled with the mobile shelters' for its patrons' and staff members' to use as they need.

Source: Dorset Echo
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Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled

Roman road mapThe Tabula Peutingeriana is one of the Austrian National Library's greatest treasures. The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire.

The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman roads from Spain to India.

Both the landmass and the seas have been stretched and flattened. The Mediterranean has been reduced to a thin strip of water, more like a river than a sea.

Instead of being oriented from north to south, the map, which is only 34 centimetres wide, works from west to east.

The red lines are the main roads. Every so often there is a little hook along the red lines which represents a rest stop - and the distance between hooks was one day's travel.

At the centre of the Tabula Peutingeriana is Rome. The city, represented by a crowned figure on a throne, has numerous roads leading to and from the metropolis. Some, such as the Via Appia and the Via Aurelia, still exist today.

The Tabula Peutingeriana scroll dates from the late 12th or the early 13th century and was made in Southern Germany or Austria.

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Scientists Create Mouse That Can't Get Cancer

MouseA mouse resistant to cancer, even highly-aggressive types, has been created by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The breakthrough stems from a discovery by UK College of Medicine professor of radiation medicine Vivek Rangnekar and a team of researchers who found a tumor-suppressor gene called "Par-4" in the prostate.

The researchers discovered that the Par-4 gene kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. There are very few molecules that specifically fight against cancer cells, giving it a potentially therapeutic application.

Rangnekar's study is unique in that mice born with this gene are not developing tumors. The mice grow normally and have no defects. In fact, the mice possessing Par-4 actually live a few months longer than the control animals, indicating that they have no toxic side effects.

Source: ScienceDaily
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Huge Italian Truffle to Be Sold At Macau Auction

A 1.5-kg white truffle found in the Italian countryside will be sold at a charity auction in Macau where it is expected to fetch 150,000 euros ($216,000).

Truffle hunter Cristiano Savini's dog, Rocco, sniffed out the truffle, one of the biggest unearthed in the past 50 years, by an oak tree near Pisa last weekend, in an area of Tuscany where Cristiano and his father scout for truffles every year.

The truffle was 75 centimetres (2.5 feet) underground. It took Savini and his father more than an hour to get the truffle out.

According to media reports, the 1.5-kg truffles were the biggest since a 2.5-kg truffle was found in 1954 and presented to former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.

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Hole Found In Jet Engine During Mid-Flight


Southwest flight 438 left Love Field for Little Rock at 2:30 in the afternoon on November 17th but encountered a serious problem just a half hour later at 25,000 feet.

Brandy King, a spokeswoman for Southwest Airlines says "our pilot did notice a vibration in right engine. He followed procedures and shut down that engine and lands the aircraft back at Dallas Love Field"

Pictures taken after the 737 landed back in Dallas show the extent of the damage, a huge hole in the panel around the right engine.

In a letter sent three days later to the 133 passengers on board, Southwest explains, "The fan blades on the front of the engine were damaged, and rattled around the engines intake area", puncturing the acoustical cover.

Federal investigators now have parts of the engine and the flight recorder trying to figure out what happened. They don't believe a bird strike is to blame for the damage on the flight.

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A Restaurant In the 'World's Largest Moose'


Officials in northern Sweden have just given the all-clear for the construction of the world's largest elk, or moose as the animal is known in North America.

Perched on top of a mountain, the 45-metre (148-foot) elk will double as a restaurant and concert hall that can seat up to 350 guests. From its antlers, more than 500 metres above sea level, visitors will be able to enjoy the spectacular view over the valleys below.

With its front legs in Norrbotten and hind quarters in Västerbotten, Stoorn will be positioned to bite on an enormous pine tree. A lift will then transport visitors through the tree to and from the creature's mouth. The reception area is to be located between the teeth and the tonsils.

In the belly of the beast is the conference centre, which - like the concert hall - will also hold up to 350 people. Visitors will be able to move through the levels using spiral staircases located inside the elk's legs.

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Road Kill Plush Toy

Road Kill Plush ToyA toy designer has come up with a gory end for teddy bears and other cuddly animal toys.

The first to be launched is Twitch, the Roadkill Teddy, which comes complete with opaque plastic body bag to keep the maggots out and attached to its twitching toe is an identity bag giving details of its demise.

According to its tag it was run over over by a milk float last Thursday, near the Hangar Lane Giratory system in London.

The toy's innards and blood can be stuffed in and out of his body. A zip on each side contains the blood and guts. Its eyes are goggling, tongue is lolling around and a tyre print runs across its back.

Toy creator Adam Arber, 33, from London, said: 'I got the idea from looking at my mother-in-law's dog which is quite ugly and I thought it would make a great toy. A friend of mine had taken some pictures of road kill and the two things gelled into one idea.'

He said he thought the toys, which cost £25 ($50), would appeal to people with a sense of humour and 'probably not anyone easily upset'.

Source: Road Kill Toys via Metro
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The Hidden Hotel

Single Room HotelA windowless hotel hidden behind billboards and only accessible by a stepladder has become the latest addition to Berlin's hotel industry.

The Single Room Hotel is located on what used to be the "death strip" along the former Berlin Wall. The wasteland is now home to a sculpture park and French artist Etienne Boulanger is responsible for creating the building.

The two star hotel boasts a host of features including a comfortable double bed, a night lamp, television and reading material, plus a bathroom and toilet.

Philip Horst, one of five artists running the park, said: "Boulanger's idea was to make use of an economic cycle and use the rented out advertising spaces to finance the hotel."

A night in the unique hotel costs a mere 20 euros ($30).


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27 November, 2007

More links for 27 Nov 2007

Photopoly is a board game that you can customize by adding your own photographs. The rules of play are similar to Monopoly. [Photojojo via A Welsh View]
The MagLev wind turbine is expected take wind power technology to the next level with magnetic levitation. [Inhabitat]
10 amazing facts about dreams. [Listverse]
This quirky umbrella comes with a fitted screw-in drinking flask. [Swaineadeney via BB Gadgets]
Periodic Table shower curtain. [Firebox]
Most successful sniper in history. [Wikipedia]
Ancient written texts from the Middle East may reveal that the use of biological weapons dates back more than 3300 years. [New Scientist]

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Online Jokes Misfire for Tube Voiceover Woman

Emma ClarkeAn official announcer for London's Tube system has been sacked after making spoof messages mocking American tourists, peeping Toms and sweaty commuters.

Voiceover artist Emma Clarke, 36, recorded the announcements in the same smooth tones that have warned millions of passengers to "Mind The Gap" and posted them on her Web site.
The messages include:


  • "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly."
  • "Would the passenger in the red shirt pretending to read the paper but who is actually staring at that woman's chest please stop. You are not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert."
  • "Would passengers filling in answers on their Sudokus please accept that they are just crosswords for the unimaginative and are not in any way more impressive just because they contain numbers."
  • "Here we are crammed again into a sweaty Tube carriage ... If you're female smile at the bloke next to you and make his day. He's probably not had sex for months."

Clarke said it was "just a bit of a laugh." But Tube operator Transport for London (TfL) failed to see the funny side and dropped her, after eight years.

"London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing severe delays," a TfL spokesman said.

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Japan Researchers Unveil Housework Robot

Twendy-OneJapanese researchers on Tuesday unveiled a new humanoid robot designed to lend a hand with housework.

The 147-centimetre (four-foot-10) robot, pure white save for blue eyes and red arm joints, put its skills on display by helping an elderly person get out of bed and preparing breakfast.

While communicating with the person, the 111-kilogramme (244-pound) robot picked up tomato sauce from the refrigerator with four fingers and carried it with a piece of bread on a plate to the dining table.

Twendy-One
With sensors and flexible joints, the robot is able to absorb potential shocks in case it bumps into users.

The robot was developed by Tokyo's elite Waseda University and named Twendy-One, an acronym derived from Waseda Engineering Designed Symbiont.

The professor said his team aims to sell the robot in 2015.

Update: Watch the robot in action after the jump!


Source: Yahoo News


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Vodka in a Stapler


Work is the real disease! Finally, a remedy for the everyday office alcoholic.

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'Just Add Water' Instant Shelters

Emergency shelterAn emergency shelter which can be set up in 40 minutes as a solid concrete structure will be made in south Wales after winning worldwide interest.

The shelter is delivered in a bag, which is ripped open and water added.

The material soaks up the moisture, activating the concrete. But the cloth remains flexible and is inflated by a battery-operated pump.

After 12 hours, the shelter becomes completely solid, and can even withstand being shot at with handguns.

Will Crawford and Peter Brewin's design will go into production at their new plant near Pontypridd next summer.

Source: BBC
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Dog Has Operation for Pants Addiction

TaffyPeckish pooch Taffy needed emergency surgery to remove a pair of underpants from his gut — the 40th pair he has gobbled.

The Springer Spaniel pup got the kids’ briefs stuck in his stomach after finding them on the floor.

Owner Eubie Saayman, 34 — a vet — performed the two-hour op.

Eubie, of Tamworth, Staffs, said 18-month-old Taffy has also eaten 300 socks, 15 pairs of shoes and a Mercedes key fob.

He added: “Nine times out of ten nature takes its course, but this time he was in discomfort.”

Wife Sharon, 44, said: “No matter where I hide underwear, he finds it.”

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Grandmother Saved By Daughter's Poo

It must be one of the most stomach-churning medical treatments ever devised.

A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her.

Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium Difficile.

But she was saved after receiving a "faecal transplant" from her daughter, Winnifred.

The treatment involves liquidising a sample of faeces from a close relative of the patient, and feeding the liquid down a tube into the stomach.

The treatment restores the bacteria to levels at which they help the recovery process.

Source: Telegraph
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'Just call me Mr Scissorhands'

Wang ZedongA barber in China has set a world record by cutting a customer's hair with 10 pairs of scissors simultaneously.

Wang Zedong, 41, of Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, demonstrated his stunt in a television studio with hundreds of people, and Guinness officials, in the audience.

Wang says he started rehearsing this stunt to try to cope with the number of customers coming to his barber's shop. "At first, many customers had to wait more than an hour in my shop, so I had to find a way of cutting hair more efficiently," he said.

Instead of recruiting more staff, Wang trained himself to cut hair with more than one pair of scissors. He says he can actually now cut hair with as many as 18 pairs of scissors simultaneously, and with his eyes covered.

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Solar Toothbrush Could Make Toothpaste Obsolete

solar-powered toothbrushOne half of modern dentistry's most celebrated coupling could become obsolete, if Japanese manufacturers and a University of Saskatchewan researcher have their way.

The Shiken Company of Japan is making a prototype solar-powered toothbrush, which causes a chemical reaction in your mouth, with the hopes of improving the elimination of harmful plaque and bacteria.

Dr. Komiyama designed the first model of this type of toothbrush more than 15 years ago: It contained a titanium dioxide rod in the neck of the brush, just below the nylon bristles. Any light falling on the wet rod would release electrons, which would react to the acid typically found in the mouth, helping break down plaque.

The latest model, the Soladey-J3X, works in much in the same way, except that it's twice as powerful.

The toothbrush needs about as much light as a solar-powered calculator.

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Fans Toss 20k Teddy Bears Onto Ice in Portland


Portland Winter Hawks fans threw what was reportedly a world record 20,372 stuffed animals on the ice after what they thought was their team's first ice hockey goal of the season -- a goal which officials later disallowed.

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‘Miracle’ Recovery: Boy Falls on Deer Antler Piercing Eye Socket and Brain


One Wasatch County family is counting their blessings for the remarkable recovery of five-year-old Connor after he fell on a deer antler this summer.

Melissa Schick and her family were enjoying a boating and fishing outing when a happy time soon turned frantic. Connor found a deer antler and was carrying it back to show his family when he fell and the antler punctured connor's eye, penetrating his brain

On the outside it looked like a small cut, but doctors soon realized the injury went much deeper. "When they took the patch off his eye, it just swelled to about the size of a baseball,” said Connor's Mom. "My biggest panic: 'is my baby is going to lose eye sight in his eye'? He's not going to be able to see and that's just something you can't get back."

Connor was rushed to Primary Children's Medical Center with a gaping hole in the front of his brain that became infected. It took giving Connor strong doses of antibiotics for two straight months for that once-gaping hole in his brain to completely heal.

The antler not only missed connor's eye; it missed the muscles that control the eye and vital blood vessels to the brain.

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Thousands of Floating Lanterns Light Up Thailand’s Evening Sky


Check out this amazing video of lanterns floating into the night sky! It's an annual festival in Thailand. People believe the lanterns carry away their troubles. They are made of all natural material. The flame creates heat that makes them float.

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The Formula for a Perfect Smile

The Perfect SmileA dazzling white smile might be essential for Hollywood stars. But those glow-in-the-dark teeth aren't right for most people, according to scientists who have worked out a formula for the perfect smile.

As far as colour is concerned, they concluded that bright white should be avoided. Instead, they said, the whiteness of the teeth should match the whites of the eyes, otherwise the smile stands out too much and detracts from t