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Christmas tree made out of Heineken bottles Boing BoingThis giant artificial Christmas tree can be found on Nanjing Road in Shanghai. It's made out of 1,000 empty full(?) Heineken bottles.
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Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting - Yahoo! NewsFor a well over a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When each bucket in his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. ...
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sun-maid-girl-makeover-sparks-controversy.html: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! FinanceNaturally, the revamped look hasn't gone unnoticed, rankling both ends of the political spectrum. The blog for conservative magazine The Weekly Standard noted that the new Sun-Maid girl looks "as if Julia Roberts decided to don a red bonnet and start picking grapes," while the feminist website Je...
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Movement under way in California to ban divorce - Yahoo! NewsTil death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant ...
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New World Record: The Largest Guiness Ever Poured | YUM!!!!On Saturday, November 11, 2009, the Auld Dubliner in Tustin, CA broke the record for successfully pouring the world's tallest Guinness. Stats: Eight ft tall, 400 gallons, and 588,000 calories. From the looks of things, it was a good time as well!
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Are you willing to pay $120 for a light bulb?| A Distinctive WorldNot so long ago choosing a light bulb wasn’t too difficult. Just grab one with the desired wattage in either pearl or clear with the correct fitting for your socket. The need for energy efficient lighting means that it’s no longer that simple, and given the amount of ongoing research in the ...
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Madam Slams Eliot Spitzer's Talk at Harvard Ethics Center -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisAn unlikely speaker is set to deliver a talk Thursday at Harvard University's center for ethics: Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York. As attorney general of New York, Spitzer had a reputation for cracking down on white-collar crime. He was elected governor but lasted only ...
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World’s Freakiest Worm Gets Expanded Family Tree | Wired Science | Wired.comFive years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known. The worms, found ...
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The Well-Being of 50 U.S. States | LiveScienceA survey called the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index reveals which states are happiest. The index includes questions about six types of well-being, including overall evaluation of their lives, emotional health, physical health, healthy behaviors (such as whether a person smokes or exercises), ...
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Spiraling Out of Control | Curious ExpeditionsAs some of our regular readers have noted it has been a bit quiet around these parts… too quiet. M and I couldn’t agree more, and I have to claim partial responsibility for that. We have been working hard over at Atlas Obscura, the site I co-launched with Joshua Foer of the now defunct Kircher ...
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