http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPz1Mou-Xxk

What a fun place to work at! The Google office at Zurich.
 

 
How many people will inhabit the planet before population growth finally levels off? The figure most commonly used is 9 billion by 2050, up from 6.7 billion today — an extraordinary number, considering that there were only 1 billion humans in 1830. (Right now there are a billion people just between the ages of 10 […]

U.S. video game sales — including hardware and software — jumped 34 percent in February to hit $1.33 billion, even with two top-selling consoles in short supply, according to data from market researcher NPD Group.
Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 have been in such high demand stores are having a hard time keeping […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2uiiLnLAoE

Hangboarding is like nothing you have ever done before. With every activity the rider, the player, the driver, whatever they are, they have to learn the sport in their mind […]

The Dutch parliament voted unanimously Thursday to outlaw bestiality and pornography involving animals.

The Bowie family had a rich history of making cool knives
but it later just went to their heads
 
This week’s amazing top 10 photos range from unusual to the direct opposite of unusual, whatever that is.
 

Forget the fact that bombs do not look like this these days. They used to. In fact, every cartoon villain has hurled his share of these babies at an enemy at one time or another. Now they have taken on a new appeal

The Japanese have all the fun. Just checkout these OMFG-smoking-turns-out-to-be-cool-after-all Zippo lighters. Embellished with a super hot Transformers design, only 300 will be made, all of which will be allocated to the Land of the Rising Sun.

Peter Kelly reponded to the post about rattlesnake vodka with this photograph he took in Vietnam. The caption reads:

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission seized an unusual cache of vodka at a rattlesnake farm in Palo Pinto County. The 411 bottles each contained not only vodka, but also a ten-inch rattlesnake! Sgt. Charlie Cloud said he’s never seen anything like it.

China now has about 220 million internet users, overtaking the number of web surfers in the United States for the first time ever, a research firm said on Friday.

Even Jimmy Page, the Led Zeppelin guitarist who like God has many mansions, has finally run out of wall space. His gigantic Pre-Raphaelite tapestry, designed by Burne-Jones and woven at William Morris’s workshop, has been rolled up and in storage for years, and will now be sold by Sotheby’s, estimated at up to £1m.

Hawks and eagles change the shape of their wings as they dart after a prey while predatory fish use their fins to close on their quarry — but how do alligators do it?

Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness—age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy—can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells, researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine and several other institutions have announced in a new study.

It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.

The Duke of Westminster, listed as the world’s 46th richest person by Forbes magazine, hired four hookers over a six-week stretch in late 2006 and early last year, the News of the World reported last year.
Despite his incredible wealth, multi-billionaire Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor haggled with one of the Emperors Club girls for the cost of […]