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2013-07-03T04:34:00.001-07:00

'Topless' can

2013-07-02T05:03:00.002-07:00

The new 'topless' can of the future with a peel-back lid that essentially turns it into a glass.

Picture: AP
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Some love for food...?

2013-02-09T05:33:00.000-08:00

A Tokyo restaurant which usually serves up French-style seafood has launched a six-course menu of dishes made from soil. A six-course menu costs around £70.

Watch the video here.

Zombie Teddy Bears

2013-02-05T01:18:00.000-08:00

Some Love for Teddy Bears.....

A British artist has created a range of zombie teddy bears - just in time for Valentine's Day. Phillip Blackman describes his 'UndeadTeds' as "repurposed soft toys transformed into fluffy, bloody horrors to keep you awake at night".

The 45-year-old, who lives near Ipswich in Suffolk, makes them using old toys and movie-standard gory effects.

"The inspiration came from a rather obscure in-joke between my partner and I," he said. "She had a terrible cold at the time and we'd been talking about a gift for a friend's baby.
"With a very stuffy nose "teddy-bear" kept coming out as "deady-bear" and we joked about zombie teddies that creep from under your bed at night to feast on your brains while you sleep.
"I'd been a fan of the Romero-style Zombies since my teens and in my youth I had obtained some minor qualifications in theatrical and special effects make-up; specifically prosthetics and gore.
"I already knew how to make a person into a zombie, so why not use the same techniques and skills on the teddies!
"Each UndeadTed takes in excess of eight hours to make, not including the time it takes for glue, paint and varnish to dry.
"I price them individually depending on size, complexity, materials used and time taken. Most are listed at around the £40 to £60 mark.
"They've all been great fun to make but of all the ones I've made so far my favourites are the Valentine ones, holding their torn-out hearts aloft as a grisly gift to their lovers. Horrible."

Source: Orange news

Creative With your (Ex) Man’s Dress Shirt

2012-07-21T05:12:00.003-07:00

Street Painting - Leon Keer

2012-07-19T05:04:00.000-07:00

3D street painting made in Venlo, The Netherlands. Inspired by Arcade’s video game Pac-Man from the 80-ties.

More street painting: http://www.streetpainting3d.com/

Mates!?

2012-07-19T04:22:00.000-07:00

Enjoy your meal mate!

iPoo?

2012-07-19T03:44:00.004-07:00

The design, the impressive functionality, the distinctive logo - was it only a matter of time before Apple redesigned the humble toilet with the iPoo? The iPoo is literally a case of toilet humour and Belgrade designer Milos Paripovic. His work isn't intentionally related to the Apple brand.

Source: Milos Paripovic

Just some love

2012-07-08T04:51:00.000-07:00

Kleptomaniac Cat

2011-02-16T06:58:00.000-08:00

A cat burglar who stole 600 items over the past three years has been outed as an actual cat, after a night-vision camera was used to capture footage of the feline.

Residents in San Francisco had initially wondered what was happening when clothes, teddy-bears and other small items started disappearing.

But it soon became apparent the crook was a kleptomaniac kitty called Dusty who kept returning home with other peoples belongings.

After setting up night-vision camera they recorded footage of him going out under the cover of night and dragging back his loot.

Dusty has now become a star after appearing on the TV channel Animal Planet.

Coca Cola secret recipe leaks online

2011-02-15T07:53:00.000-08:00

Some love for Coca Cola?!

The top secret recipe of Coca Cola, which is kept locked in a steel vault in Atlanta city and guarded 24-hours a day, has reportedly been leaked by a website.

The ingredients of the drink, founded by John Pemberton, a medicinal pharmacist in 1886, have always been a mystery, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Thisamericanlife.org claims to have discovered a list in a photograph in a newspaper article giving the ingredients and exact quantities to make the drink.

The Feb 8 1979 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a photo of someone holding open a book with a recipe claimed to be an exact replica of Pemberton's.

The recipe reportedly contains the exact measures of all the different oils needed for Coca Cola's secret ingredient, Merchandise 7X.

Despite making up only one per cent of the drink's total formula, Merchandise 7X is though to give the popular soft drink its unique taste.

The 'secret recipe' for the 'syrup' which forms the basis of the drink is said to be: fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP, citric acid 3 oz, caffeine 1oz, sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required), water 2.5 gal, lime juice 2 pints, vanilla 1oz, and caramel 1.5oz or more to colour.

The Merchandise 7X flavour, of which 2oz is added to five gallons of syrup, consists of: alcohol 8oz, orange oil 20 drops, lemon oil 30 drops, nutmeg oil 10 drops, coriander 5 drops, neroli 10 drops, and cinnamon 10 drops.

Source: Orange UK

Wine shelf collapses

2011-02-10T07:25:00.000-08:00

This wine store worker is probably still feeling a little red-faced after having an accident with a stack of wine filled shelves.

“don't whine about it”

Source: Newslite

Teddy is back!

2011-02-08T05:47:00.001-08:00

What do you think of my colour???

Thanks Yvette and Teddy Tours

Teddy bears in need of a vacation?

2010-11-28T08:12:00.000-08:00

Some love for your 'teddy bear'?!

Is your favourite teddy bear or stuffed animal desperately in need of a vacation?

Finnish firm 'Teddy Tours Lapland' has come up with one solution: holidays in northern Finland for that special stuffed friend costing from 110 euros to 170 euros (93.7-144.4 pounds).

The "Standard Journey" for teddies includes a trip around the northern town of Rovaniemi and is capped off with a visit to Santa Claus. The stuffed animal will also receive a gift, send a postcard to its owner and be sent home with holiday photos.
The "Luxury Journey" includes, on top of the standard journey package, a trip to a reindeer farm where the bear can feed Santa's reindeer.
"This is followed by a snowmobile safari. On safari, Teddy will try ice fishing on the frozen waterway and savour hot chocolate by the campfire," the firm said on its Web site, adding the whole trip will also be recorded on videotape.

Teddy Tours Lapland will also provide the bear, should you not want to send your own abroad or don't own one yet.

Currently the company only offers trips during the winter, but it is also planning summer programmes as well.

"People or living pets may not participate on these trips," the firm said on its Web site.

Source: Teddy Tours Lapland

What to do with your old books!

2010-05-18T07:16:00.000-07:00

You have an old used book and you plan to drop it in garbage? Well, after seeing the following pictueres you might change your mind about that and try to make some cool paper-cut sculptures from its papers.

Website artist Su Blackwell

Bulldog Beauty Contest 2010

2010-05-12T07:03:00.000-07:00

Some love for Bulldogs????

Bulldog Beauty Contest 2010 took place February 28 at the Marketplace Long Beach, California.

http://www.hautedogs.org/bulldog.html

Bed ladder

2010-05-12T06:59:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I whish I would have a bed ladder…!

Bed ladder makes getting out of bed easy. The sturdy wooden rungs provide stability and comfortable grips for pulling yourself up without help from others. A great aid for the elderly and people with disabilities. Great for hospitals and care centers. Simply loops around bedposts or bed legs.

More information:Bed Ladder

Sleep well!!!!

2010-05-11T06:32:00.000-07:00

The art of sleeping!

"Men in Black" – In 3D

2010-05-10T06:27:00.000-07:00

Will Smith returns to the Men In Black franchise, with a new 3D sequel heading to cinema screens in summer 2012…

Columbia Pictures has confirmed what's been rumoured heavily for the last few weeks, namely that it's pressing ahead with a third Men In Black movie.

The new film, which will inevitably be a 3D affair, will be arriving in the summer of 2012, and Will Smith has signed up to reprise his role as Agent Jay. Tommy Lee Jones hasn't yet signed on the dotted line to return as Agent Kay, but negotiations are ongoing to secure his return. The long-rumoured casting of Josh Brolin looks to be on the mark too, as he's reportedly in talks about playing a younger Agent Kay.

The script this time round is being written by Etan Cohen, who hopefully can overcome the lame retread of the original that Men In Black 2 ended up as. Cohen also penned Tropic Thunder, which does offer some promise.

The release date for the film has also been announced, too. For Men In Black 3 is set to do battle with Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine and Star Trek in the summer of 2012. It's marked for release on May 25th of that year. Barry Sonnenfeld is the man charged, once more, with directing the film.

Source: Columbia Pictures

Sébastien Tellier – Video

2010-05-10T06:24:00.000-07:00

Some love for eroticism or art?!

Sébastien Tellier

Goodbye to '24'

2010-05-10T06:21:00.000-07:00

Some love for Jack Bauer?

Eight seasons in, "24" was 86'd. By the time the last episode airs on May 24, there will have been nearly 200 hours of "24." To date, there have been 18 Emmy wins.

"I think over the course of the eight years, we've had 16 marriages and 30-something children have been born," said star Kiefer Sutherland, who portrays federal agent Jack Bauer on the series. "We were like a family. So, it's very hard to say goodbye."
Sad as the end may be, Sutherland said the time is right.

"It was a lot of different things. It's a very, very difficult show to write. And (executive producer) Howard Gordon . . . normally halfway through the season will say, 'I've got a great idea for next year.' And he just wasn't feeling it. And all his energy was focused on this season eight. He said, 'This is where I feel it should end, and we should be making the films.' And once he says that, you've got to go with him."

The "24" feature film, still in development, will stray from the show's format in at least one key way: It won't take 24 hours to tell its story of a day in the life of Jack Bauer....

'Dark Knight' – Batman 3 – Official release date!

2010-05-10T06:15:00.000-07:00

Warner Bros officially set a date for the follow-up to The Dark Knight. Tentatively known as Batman 3, the movie will debut July 20, 2012 in conventional and IMAX theaters, almost exactly four years after The Dark Knight opened to record-breaking numbers.

The studio has barely begun the process of developing the movie; Nolan is in postproduction on “Inception,” but is hammering out a story with David Goyer.

There is no title as this point and no start date.

July is becoming Nolan’s month. “The Dark Knight” opened on July 18, 2008, and “Inception” debuts July 16.

With Batman 3 on the docket, summer 2012 is shaping up to be one of the greater geek movie seasons. Marvel’s “The Avengers” is slated to come out May 4, board game adaptation “Battleship” leaves port May 25, the “Star Trek” sequel beams up June 29, and the rebooted “Spider-Man” swings into theaters on July 3.

Amazing hybrid animals

2010-05-06T01:32:00.000-07:00

Take a look at some of these otherworldly hybrid animals......

Though they rarely occur in nature, individuals from different but closely related species do occasionally mate, and the result is a biological hybrid — an offspring that shares traits from both parent species.

Here are six bizarre, but truly unique half-breeds.

Zebroids

(Photo: Wiki Commons / GNU)

A zebroid is the offspring of a cross between a zebra and any other equine, usually a horse or a donkey. There are zorses, zonkeys, zonies, and a host of other combinations.
Zebroids are an interesting example of hybrids bred from species that have a radically different number of chromosomes. For instance, horses have 64 chromosomes and zebra have between 32 and 44 (depending on species). Even so, nature finds a way.

Savannah cats

(Photo: Jason Douglas / Wiki Commons / public domain)

Savannah cats are -- contrary to popular belief -- from a coastal town in Georgia. But what they are is what you get from mixing your everyday domestic cat with an African Serval cat. Historians believe the first one was bred sometime in the mid 1980s by a cat breeder in, of all places, Pennsylvania. The International Cat Association first recognized the cat in 1996. The hybrid cat can now be purchased or perused in copies of 'Savannah's Illustrated' magazine.

Ligers

(Photo: aliwest44 / Flickr)

Ligers are the cross of a male lion and a female tiger, and they are the largest of all living cats and felines. Their massive size may be a result of imprinted genes which are not fully expressed in their parents, but are left unchecked when the two different species mate. Some female ligers can grow to 10 feet in length and weigh more than 700 pounds.
Ligers are distinct from tigons, which come from a female lion and male tiger. Various other big cat hybrids have been created too, including leopons (a leopard and a lion mix), jaguleps (a jaguar and leopard mix), and even lijaguleps (a lion and jagulep mix).

Wholphins

(Photo: Mark Interrante (aka pinhole) / Flickr)

A cross between a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, wholphins are hybrids that have been reported to exist in the wild. There are currently two in captivity, both at Sea Life Park in Hawaii.
The wholphin's size, color, and shape are intermediate between the parent species. Even their number of teeth is mixed; a bottlenose has 88 teeth, a false killer whale has 44 teeth, and a wholphin has 66.

Grolar bears

(Photo: via Inhabitots.com)

The offspring of a grizzly bear and a polar bear, a grolar bear is one beast you don't want to meet in the woods. Interestingly, unlike many hybrid animals on this list, grolar bears are known to occur naturally in the wild.
Some experts predict that polar bears may be driven to breed with grizzly bears at an increased frequency due to global warming, and the fact that polar bears are being forced from their natural habitats on the polar ice.

Beefalo

(Photo: via readthesmiths.com)

Beefalo are the fertile offspring of domestic cattle and American bison. Crosses also exist between domestic cattle and European bison (zubrons) and yaks (yakows). The name given to beefalo might be the most suggestive, since the breed was purposely created to combine the best characteristics of both animals with an eye towards beef production.
A USDA study showed that beefalo meat, like bison meat, tends to be lower in fat and cholesterol. They are also thought to produce less damage to range-land than cattle.

Source: Bryan Nelson, Mother Nature Network

German Man Marries Cat !

2010-05-04T08:01:00.000-07:00

Is this a joke or some real love?

Depressed? Eat some chocolate?!

2010-05-04T07:31:00.000-07:00

People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday last week, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate.

They said people who were depressed ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month, compared with 5.4 servings among those who were not.
And people who had major depression based on results of a screening test ate even more -- 11.8 servings per month. A serving was considered to be one small bar, or 1 ounce (28 grams), of chocolate.

"Depressed mood was significantly related to higher chocolate consumption," Dr. Natalie Rose of the University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Diego, and colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Many people consider chocolate a mood-booster but few studies have actually confirmed the connection between the confection and mood. And most studies have looked only at women.

Rose and colleagues studied the relationship between chocolate and mood among 931 women and men who were not using antidepressants. People in the study reported how much chocolate they consumed and most also completed a food frequency questionnaire about their overall diet.

Their moods were assessed using a commonly used depression scale. What they found was a marked association between chocolate consumption and depression. And unlike other studies that looked only at women, the link was true of both men and women.

What the study could not say was why people who are depressed eat more chocolate.
It could be that depression stimulates chocolate cravings, and people eat chocolate as a sort of self treatment, confirming some studies on rats that suggest chocolate can improve mood, the authors said.
Or, it could be that depression may stimulate chocolate cravings for some other reason without providing any mood benefit. People in the study did not have any such "treatment benefit" from chocolate, the team said.
And they said it may be that eating a lot of chocolate actually causes people to feel depressed, another possible explanation for the association they saw in the study.

It may be something physiological about chocolate, such as providing additional antioxidants. Or the mood-boosting effect of chocolate could be fleeting, like the temporary euphoria from drinking alcohol, leaving people feeling even lower after the brief euphoria has passed.

"Distinguishing among these possibilities will require different study designs," the team said.

They said future studies will be needed to determine whether chocolate is a cause of depression, or a temporary salve.