The world's largest Cigarette Butt

A 30-foot-tall (9-meter-tall) cigarette butt was dropped in the middle of Trafalgar Square, London, on April this year, by the Keep Britain Tidy campaign run by the charity ENCAMS, in protest against cigarette butt littering. The problem has skyrocketed since July 2007, when Britain's ban on smoking in public places was put in place. Cigarette litter dirties 78 percent of streets in the United Kingdom.

Green Energy - The Amazing Solar Tower of Seville

Located in the Andalusian countryside of Southern Spain, near Seville, is a giant 115 meter high concrete tower surrounded by a field of 624 huge mirrors. These mirrors collect the sunlight and focus it at the top of the concrete tower, where it heats water passing through pipes, converting it into steam. This steam drives a series of turbines that produce electricity. Simple, efficient, environment friendly and spectacular!

The Shittest bicycle

Come rain or flood, a typical Indian family never misses their favorite TV soaps.

Come rain or flood, a typical Indian family never misses their favorite TV soaps.

Creative Animal Coffee Mugs

Daring Photographers

Apparently, some guys don’t wait for the wind to do the magic. They prefer to risk a punch or a kick to get a peek.

CIS Solar Tower - The solar panel covered skyscraper

Green technology has always fascinated and inspired me. The solar tower of Seville, air-powered cars and now an entire skyscraper covered with solar panels. The office building of Co-operative Insurance (CIS), an insurance company, in Manchester has been transformed into Europe's largest vertical array of solar panels, designed to convert daylight into electricity.


The sides of this CIS owned skyscraper was original covered with small mosaic tiles, but after only six months, they began to fall of. They needed a solution and eventually came up with a brilliant and unique idea. After spending £5.5 million, three faces of the building was clad with a total of 7,244 solar panels generating 390kW of energy. The building also has 24 wind turbines on the roof, which provide 10% of the total power used by the building.

You can't control natural urge

That, is the President of the U.S.

An undated picture of Barack Obama enjoying a smoke with a friend in Kenya

Self explanatory broken arm slings

Are you tired of explaining to everyone how you injured your arm? Then just get one of these and you will never have to recount your painful story again.

The Amazing Rice Paddy Art of Japan

Since 1993, the farmers of the Japanese village of Inakadate has been creating art on rice paddy fields. By intermixing purple and yellow-leafed rice with local green-leafed variety, imaginative farmers in rural Japan create large scale rice paddy artworks in their fields. Each year these farmers plant rice of different variety to create new artworks and they last all through the growing season until the time of harvest.
Watch how this paddy field slowly evolves into a fantastic artwork.

The underground houses of Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy is a town located in northern South Australia and is known as the opal capital of the world, as nearly 95 percent of the world's opal supply comes from the local mines. This small town with a population of around 3000 has a unique way of life – nearly half of them live underground.

Back in 1916 when people moved into Coober Pedy to mine opal, the harsh summer temperature drove them into caves dug into the hillsides. When temperatures outside raged over 40 degree centigrade, underground temperatures remained comfortable and nearly constant year-round. Even today, the town folk prefer to build their homes in underground caves. In fact, many of these homes are abandoned mine shafts dug to search opal.

Crazy Japanese Inventions

I guess the word Japanese in the title is redundant. You can’t expect any of these contraptions to come from anybody else.

Bear Encounters

Invisible Body Art

Pets and Owners

It is said that eventually they start to look alike

Coffee cups to scare your guests

If you don’t mind your visitors spilling coffee over your carpet, then you will surely have fun watching them scream as you serve them coffee in the Ant-covered Cup and Saucer. This cool table set has been created by Jin Lee, a New York based artist, who has hand painted each ant on the cups and saucer. The set is currently out of stock, though.

The diamond mines of Sierra Leone

Celebrities in PETA advertising campaign

Here is a collection of animal-rights organization PETA’s raunchy advertising campaign featuring celebrities.

Photographs of Photographers

We look in wonder and awe at the breath taking shots captured by photographers, but rarely for a moment think about the person who took the picture and under what conditions. So here is a collection of photographs dedicated to photographers. One thing that I can say for sure – it’s hard to be one.

Illustrated baby handling guide for dumb parents

fter seeing countless “worst-mom” pictures on the Internet, I feel this book is a must have for any new parent. The book is on sale at Amazon.

Unusually Shaped Computer Mice

Too colorful? Yes. But I still wouldn’t mind having one of these under by hand.

A man’s guide to treating women

What are you looking at?

Pictures of men and kids (and girls too) caught staring.

Pricasso, the penis painter

Artist Tim Patch, who calls himself Pricasso, has an unusual way of creating portraits – he uses his penis as a brush.

Crazy bicycle parking

Wow! That’s a lot of snow

Bike built out of junk

The view from a 350 meter TV tower

The spectacular view atop an abandoned TV tower in the city of Kostroma, Russia, which is supposedly 350 meters tall according to the photographer.

Wing Bowl 2009 – The chicken wing eating contest

The Wing Bowl is an annual chicken wing eating contest that was founded in 1993 by two Philadelphia radio hosts, Al Morganti and Angelo Cataldi. The Wing Bowl that began as a radio promotion has grown into an extremely competitive and exciting tradition in Philadelphia. The Wing Bowl is usually held on the Friday preceding the Super Bowl and every one of the major Philadelphia television stations covers the event live. This year the event took place on January 30.
Below are some images from Wing Bowl 2009. (Tip: forget the chickens, watch the chicks)

Life in the Metro

Moms of famous sons

The Ice Toilet

Imagine sitting on it on a cold winter morning.

Creative Pencil Sculptures

I hope these fashion catch on soon

Will you trust this man with your baby?

Pictures taken at the right moment

Pictures from the Brazilian Underwear Day

On Feb 17, 2009, the Brazilian capital of Brasilia celebrated “Day Lingerie” or the Brazilian Underwear Day where models, both male and female, paraded the streets in their undies. The Underwear Day was created to support the underwear industry. (See Brazilian National Underwear Day 2010)

The art of cropping

Boxers - Before and after their matches

Anybody else wants to jump into the ring?

Cosmic Muffin, a boat that was once an airplane

As strange as it may sound, the ‘Cosmic Muffin’ is a boat made out of a rare and historic aircraft - the Boeing 307 Stratoliner dating back to 1939. The 307 was the first commercial pressurized aircraft and only ten 307s were built in the late-1930’s. Production of the aircraft was abruptly stopped when war broke out in Europe.

The Guoliang Tunnel of China

The Guoliang Tunnel is located in the Taihang Mountains, in the Hunan Province of China. The story that led to it’s development is an inspiring one.

Before 1972, access to the nearby Guoliang village was limited to a very difficult path carved into the mountainside. The village was nestled in a valley surrounded by towering mountains. It was basically cut off from civilization. In 1972, a group of desperate villagers decided to take matters into their own hands - they would carve a road right into the side of the mountain by themselves.

Annie Rupani was crowned Miss Pakistan World 2010

Annie Rupani was crowned Miss Pakistan World 2010 on 20 August 2010.This 21-year old hails from Karachi, Pakistan, and lives in Sugar Land, Houston, Texas is the eighth Miss World Pakistan. Rupani who with his father, kept the Rupani Foundation to create employment, promote equity.

Stunning pictures of volcanic eruptions seen from space

Last month NASA released a set of pictures of the eruptions of the Sarychev Volcano in Kuril Islands of Japan, captured by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). The view must have been mesmerizing..
 

NASA Photographs a Impressive And Good-looking “Nebula”

NGC 2818 is a beautiful planetary cloud, gaseous mantle of a dying sun-like star. In three nebulae, was able to identify the sources of energetic radiation and eludicate their unusual properties some of the hottest and most massive stars seen, some of them are double. Quite a few of the most beautiful objects in the Universe are still shrouded in mystery. Two images of the Carina Nebula, where new stars are forming.The NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae Ring Nebula.

The original manuscript of Lewis Carroll-Alice in wonderland

`The original manuscript of Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, is one of the British Library's best - loved treasures. Dodgson was fond of children and became friends with Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, the young daughters of the Dean of his college, Christ Church. One summer's day in 1862 he entertained them on a boat trip with a story of Alice's adventures in a magical world entered through a rabbit-hole. The ten-year-old Alice was so entranced that she begged him to write it down for her. It took him some time to write out the tale - in a tiny, neat hand - and complete the 37 illustrations. Alice finally received the 90-page book, dedicated to 'a dear child, in memory of a summer day', in November 1864.

Urged by friends to publish the story, Dodgson re-wrote and enlarged it, removing some of the private family references and adding two new chapters. The published version was illustrated by the artist John Tenniel.
Many years later, Alice was forced to sell her precious manuscript at auction. It was bought by an American collector, but returned to England in 1948 when a group of American benefactors presented it to the British Library in appreciation of the British people's role in the Second World War.

The car that can go where no car has gone before

The original milk container

E3 2009 Booth Babes

No event is complete without ladies to grace the occasion. When the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2009 kicked off this week, one of the biggest attractions were the offerings from big game houses like Ubisoft, EA Games, Microsoft, Nintendo and of course, the booth babes! Those who couldn’t make it to the live event, here are some pictures for consolation.