http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKw9mYqOwn8

It seats 104 people, weighs 1.25 tons, has 54 legs and is made of 62 pieces of leather.
 

This is amazing.  After a busy day of off-roading, why not clean up the four-wheeler by … submerging it in a pond.

 
“Villa Nackros” was designed by Swedish architect, Staffan Strindberg, and is situated in the town of Kalmar on the east coast of Sweden. Villa Nackros offers a spacious, contemporary living environment that combines all the luxuries of the modern day home with the spatial freedom and unrivalled views that only waterfront living can provide.

Guilherme sez, “Last week Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the FTC against several providers of ’stalker spyware.’ These are companies that advertise monitoring software with language like ‘can secretly record your wife.’
Some also advertise ‘remote install,’ ie, you send an executable email attachment disguised as something else, and the recipient is unaware […]

Sushi chef Ken Kawasumi shows a replica he created of Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ made of sushi at a press event in Tokyo Thursday, March 6, 2008. Kawasumi displayed his skill of transforming sushi into a colorful work of art at the special event celebrating the publishing of his new book ‘The most simple way […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmPNI6Ec6s

Performed by John Holland, plucking out single notes using a tin whistle in D, tabla, bongo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, triangluitar, ukulele, another ukulele, chair with ukulele, chair with tin whistle in D, violin, casio keyboard, erhu/chinese violin, piano, and chair with cellular telephone.

It’s just what you might think from the name -pickle juice in a popsicle! John Howard, a roller rink owner in Seguin, Texas, found that his frozen pickle juice treats were very popular with kids, so he started his own company to sell them nationwide. Have you ever tried one?

Britons need a lot more than a million pounds to enjoy the lifestyle of the rich and famous, a report said on Monday.
You need at least 5.8 million pounds to consider yourself “comfortably rich” in Britain, according to research for the National Lottery by the Center for Economics and Business Research.
 

Apparently there is a half life to sins. The old book of sins speaking in “begots” and “begats” was a little behind the times, and so was everything that came after “Thou shalt not…”. The new list of seven sins starts off something like this.
Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrIZLaGQZA

No wonder our perception of fresh chicken is so distorted.
 

 
You know you’re about to have a crazy week when you run into signs like this. More after the jump.

 
Stephane Halleux has created an amazing gallery of “steampunk” art.
Steampunk is a subgenre of art and speculative fiction which came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power was still widely used.
Steampunk was influenced by, and often adopts the style of the […]

Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a test-track for the first time.The mathematical theory behind these so-called “shockwave” jams was developed more than 15 years ago using […]

 
This peculiar chair, called the An Lena chair, was created by Simone Harbert as part of a student exhibition at the Burg Giebichenstein College of Art and Design in Germany.
The piece was a commentary on parasitism, as it supported itself from gripping two surfaces: the floor and the wall.

From the labs of people with entirely too much time on their hands comes the world’s first Etch-A-Sketch clock. They obviously went through a ton of trouble to make this work.
Every minute the device draws out the time in a matter of seconds and then actually erases it to start the process all over again […]

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the […]

 
It is the biggest encyclopedia in history and the most successful example of “user-generated content” on the internet, with over 9m articles in 250 languages contributed by volunteers collaborating online. But Wikipedia is facing an identity crisis as it is torn between two alternative futures. It can either strive to encompass every aspect of human […]

Whether it’s a frisky kitten or a tubby tabby, a cat at home could cut your heart attack risk by almost a third, a new study suggests.
The finding, from a 10-year study of more than 4,300 Americans, suggests that the stress relief pets provide humans is heart-healthy.

Wouldn’t it be nice to drive a car into town without worrying about finding a parking space?
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised just such a vehicle, a futuristic “City Car” that could even drive itself.

Banned 7Up Commercial
Here are some very funny commercials that pushed the limits a bit too far.  The team at the Impact Lab reviewed many different “banned” commercials, and these are the ones that made the list.