Stalking Venus

Okay, now I’ve seen everything. Well, at least until the next mad new thing comes along.
Introducing the latest new Nintendo Wii game - Major League Eating.
This is a $10 Nintendo Wii game based on the real life ’sport’, in which people compete to cram as much food into their stomachs as possible within a specified [...]

Today seems to be a particularly good day for bizarre news.
In the Northern Territories of Australia, a man was recently arrested for speeding along in a car filled with drugs (inlcuding 2 cannabis plants on the back seat), at 150km/h, using a video camera to film himself masturbating, while shooting at kangaroos with a rifle.
I [...]

This morning’s LOLnews is about a rescue attempt in Queensland, Australia, where ‘frantic’ police smashed a car window to rescue an unconcious baby that had been left in the back seat… Only it wasn’t a baby, but rather a very realistic baby doll.
Creator of the ‘reborn’ dolls, Ms. Vynette Cernik says that it isn’t the [...]

This one via Snopes… A prison designed by architect Josef Hohensinn called the Justice and Detention Centre in Leoben, Austria. The Modern Architecture website has this to say:
Prisoners in groups up to thirteen are accommodated in a wing of their own and can move freely among the cells and communal spaces. The architect suggested the [...]

Those mad peeps at Improv Everywhere have done it again - A brilliant piece of improv art/performance. They got together a whole bunch of twins, and then created a “human mirror” subway car. Explaining the concept is tricky, so take a look at the results:

Basically, the twins all dressed the same, sat opposite each other [...]

The New York Times has a fairly interesting article on the  modern airship and the people who are trying to turn them into a common sight in the sky. This pic is of the inside of a Zeppelin NT flying over the southern part of Germany.

The article basically waffles on a bit about global warming [...]

Great post on Dark Roasted Blend this morning about Jim Denevan, a sand artist who makes some of the most amazing transient artworks I’ve ever seen. Scale is his thing, and his latest project is massive, representing about 8 days of walking. So much work and it’s all gone the next time it rains.
Go read [...]

Awesome un-tooned version of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV by Pixeloo.

Many top-end car interiors look as if the designers have taken a page out of science fiction and tried to make their cabins look as high-tech as possible, stuffing them with bright lights and shiny gadgets. The FBG instead maintains a minimal, but badass look, making the driver’s experience about driving the car.

The FBG has the same 1001-bhp V-16 quad-turbocharged engine as the ’standard’ Veyron. This, according to the factory, enables it to go from standstill to 62 miles per hour in 2.6 seconds.