World's Most Expensive Foods
Posted Mar 20, 2008 8:47 PM by Sung
Here is a list of the world's most expensive food. Pictured left is the most expensive champagne, which is only $1,500. A pound of white truffle cost somewhere between $1350 - $2700.
Here is a list of the world's most expensive food. Pictured left is the most expensive champagne, which is only $1,500. A pound of white truffle cost somewhere between $1350 - $2700.
Sorry Croatian Smurfs
Posted Jan 31, 2008 8:15 AM by Sung
If you're going to go after the record for the most Smurfs in one place, you can't half-ass it. You have to bring your A game. The record is 451 Smurfs set by students at Warwick University last year. The Croatians managed just 395 Smurfs. Pathetic.
Cutlery Pen Caps
Posted Jan 23, 2008 7:39 PM by Sung
Designed by Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Cristian Cellini and Francesca Fontana. These pen caps can serve as a cutlery.
Turn your favourite office tool from your desk in a common cutlery...this is din-ink. A set of pen caps, including a fork-cap, a knife-cap and a spoon-cap, that replaces the normal pen cap during lunch time! All caps are made by annually renewable resources, like natural starch and fibres, to be 100% biodegradable and atoxic, warranting the best alimentary use. Dispensing each set in a compostable packaging the whole set is designed to respect the environment. Now give your office ballpoint pen a good excuse to be gnawed by your teeth: use them for din-ink.
Labels: interesting, stuff, world
Fine Art Sweatshop
Posted Dec 20, 2007 8:40 AM by Sung
Apparently there's a sweatshop in China that recreates paintings by famous painters. The good thing is that the paintings aren't sold as a counterfeit copy of the real thing but just as a recreation of the original. This is much better than a print copy as you can actually feel the textures of the paint and see the brush strokes that the painters decided on.
The company that makes the reproductions states that they have 622 galleries with over 5,000 artists working there and not all work are reproductions. Some are originals.
I can't imagine what the community is like over there. I guessing that it's like when I was in art school but with 50 times more people and everyone is Chinese.
Labels: art, China, interesting, world
Kites for Greener Boats
Posted Dec 19, 2007 9:21 AM by Sung
A new German ship called MV Beluga SkySails will set sail with a new concept for saving costs and saving the Earth. They are attaching very large kites to help move large boats. They say that it can cut fuel use up to 20% or $1,600 a day. Also, burning less fuel means less emissions into the atmosphere for a smaller carbon footprint. The Skysails will be the guinea pig and if it is successful other companies will be able to buy this technology.
Also, Britney Spears' 16-year-old sister is pregnant.Labels: green, news, technology, world
New Weight Loss Plan, Eat Your Hair
Posted Nov 29, 2007 8:07 AM by Sung
This 18-year old girl recently lost 40 lbs. but had abdomen pains. Five months later, she went to a doctor. The doctor looked in her stomach with a camera and found a huge lump of hair. They surgically removed the hairball. It weighed 10 lbs.! So that 50 lbs. that she lost in just five months!
It's Chess, It's Boxing! It's Chess Boxing!
Posted Nov 10, 2007 10:53 AM by Sung
This is real and they are taking it very seriously. We need this here in the US, although they'd dumb it down to wrestling and hungru-hungry hippos. Actually, that doesn't sound half bad.
Eight of the World’s Most Unusual Plants
Posted Oct 26, 2007 8:18 AM by Sung
Surprisingly, none of them eats people but smells like raw meat or rotting meat. They also have a fleshy texture.
Labels: interesting, internet, nature, photos, pictures, world
Monkey War Going on in India
Posted Oct 24, 2007 8:38 AM by Sung
The deputy mayor of Delhi, India was attacked by a group of wild monkeys yesterday and has died today. Apparently, wild monkeys are a real problem in India. The solution to this problem is, you guessed it, a group of larger monkeys trained to take out the wild monkeys. This is the beginning of another Monkey War.
Sport of Rock Balancing
Posted Oct 18, 2007 9:21 AM by Sung
In what must be an incredible show of patience and preciseness, there are people in this weird world we all share that make a practice of balancing seemingly implacable rocks on top of each other. The result is surreal and quiet beautiful... if for nothing more than its apparent impossibility.
What!? This Place Actually Exists!?
Posted Mar 7, 2007 10:20 PM by Sung
I came across this picture of Mont Saint-Michel on Dark Roasted Blend, an interesting blog that I see a lot of posts show up on digg. The first picture didn't seem like it was real but there were many more pictures of it.
Here is some information about Mont Saint-Michel from Wikipedia:
Mont Saint-Michel is a small rocky tidal island in Normandy, roughly one kilometre from the north coast of France at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches. Its name comes from a small island, a granitic outgrowth approaching 960 meters in circumference that reaches 92 meters above the sea, dedicated to Michael archangel. The extraordinary architecture of the Mont Saint-Michel and its bay make it the most visited place of interest in Normandy and the third in France (after the Eiffel tower and the castle of Versailles), with some 3 200 000 visitors each year. Classified as a historic building in 1874, the site has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. The church is crowned by a gold leaf statue of St. Michael by Emmanuel Frémiet, reaching a height of 155 metres (510 feet) above the sea.A natural land bridge connected the island from the mainland. This made the island only accessible during low tide, giving it a mystical quality. After the French Revolution, it was used to jail political prisoners. The prison was short-lived as it was closed as a prison and declared a national monument in 1874. Victor Hugo, one of my favorite authors that wrote Les Miserables
, was one of proponents of turning the island into a monument while it was a prison. He described the fast and unpredictable tides as moving "as swiftly as a galloping horse." The tides around the island moves a meter per second.
I was surprised that I didn't know about Mont Saint-Michel because it is the third most visited place in France behind the Eiffel Tower and the castle of Versaille. I guess it's more popular than the Louvre according to wikipedia. It seems to be a very popular among Europeans. It's also no surprise that it was the inspiration for Minas Tirith in The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
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100 Packets of Cocaine
Posted Oct 6, 2005 1:05 PM by Sung
This lady from Trinidad was arrested a couple of years ago for having 100 packets of cocaine in her stomach as she was smuggling them.She was told not to eat on the flight although she did anyway, little knowing that eating stimulates gastric juices which can burn through the latex and cause the bags to burst. Fortunately, this did not happen.
