Dress up your iPod with this iGoatse skin. [via]
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Video: Nintendo Sixty-FOUR
Did you go this crazy when you got your first console or computer? I can't remember the Acorn Electron making me this happy. [via]
Bizarre 'Neck-Less' Baby Born In Nepal
AWV reader Dragun sent this story to me asking whether or not it was real. I have no idea as I have never come across the news site before and with it being so close to April Fool's Day I'm sceptical about most weird things that I read.
The bizarre looking baby was born in Charikot, Nepal and didn't appear to have a neck. It's head was almost totally sunken into the upper part of its body and had very large eyeballs. It died within half an hour of being born. It weighed 2kg at birth and was born after a nine-month gestation period.
What do you think? Real or not? I'm probably guessing that it is real. A forum discusses the baby here and it seems to be a case of anencephaly.
Video: Woman Jumps Off Building
Luckily, or unluckily, this suicidal woman survived. She was jitterbugging that very night! [via]
Video: Faceplant
Another day, another face plant. [via]
Video: Quagmire Compilation
Funny compilation of Quagmire clips from Family Guy. [via]
Lego Wembley
This scale model of Wembley is two feet wide and has 10,000 bricks. It was built in three weeks and cost £10,000, considerably less than the £757m that the real thing has cost so far. [via]
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Video: What Happens Next?
Nice face plant. [via]
My Pet Horse
I hope he's trained. I wouldn't fancy cleaning up after he's had a dump. [via]
Video: Dance Dance Revolution Chicks
I can't believe I've been wrong for so long. I always thought that Dance Dance Revolution was for kids and geeks. [via]
The Man She Forgot To Google
Amusing t-shirt from T-ShirtHumor.com. [via]
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Video: Huge Water Balloon vs Head
A guy allows his mates to drop a huge water balloon on his head. [via]
The Giant Penis
As you know, I'm a fan of weird stuff but I did have to think twice about posting this. It has to be one of the weirdest things that I've come across in a long time.
This man has spent the last six years injecting his penis and scrotum with silicon and as a result it has become so large that he can no longer stand to pee and sex is completely out of the question.
Be warned, the video contains male genitalia and strong sexual references. [via]
School Aims To Combat Obesity By Removing Chairs In Classrooms
A school in Minnesota aims to combat childhood obesity by removing chairs win its classrooms. Called NEAT living, the idea is part of a program called Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, which involves burning calories in every day living and activities.
"What we're all aware of is that we're all living in chairs, and so NEAT living is actually very, very simple. It's chairless living," said Dr. James Levine, of NEAT Living.
Unlike a traditional classroom where children spend most of the day sitting behind a desk, children are up moving around.
"If you spend eight hours a day on your bottom, you will burn about 50 to 60 calories for the whole day spent on your bottom. If, on the other hand, you walk literally at 1 mph, which I call shopping speed, it's very, very slow, you can burn an extra 100 calories an hour," he said.
On an average day, that's an extra 800 calories someone can be burn just by sitting less and walking around more at work or in the classroom.
Unknown White Male
I recently watched a film called Unknown White Male that I downloaded from a film company called Word of Mouth Films. The company is experimenting in different forms of distribution and invited me to download the movie legally via BitTorrent. Despite a few problems with the film such as it being a little too large (almost 2GB), in the wrong aspect ratio and there not being enough connections to download the film quickly enough, it was a novelty being able to download a film directly from a film company.
The movie is about a man called Doug who awakes on a subway in Coney Island and has no recollection of who he is, where is he or what he was doing. After going to a police station and hospital he is reunited with an old date, whom he doesn't remember. The film then follows Doug as he tries to piece back together a life he doesn't know.
The film becomes more and more interesting as he starts to meet his family and his friends. He has to decide whether he keeps his old life or builds a new one. You can imagine what it would be like if you were in his position. When you meet up with people that you used to know you can imagine thoughts going through your head such as, "I don't like this person", even though this person is your best friend, or even your mother or father.
The film is very thought provoking and you are left wondering what happens to Doug and whether he will ever regain his memory, as doctor's predict he will, and what decisions he will then make.
The movie goes on limited release in the UK on April 7th and may currently be showing in some cinemas in America.
Cargo Ship Fire
The picture above, and others here, show a Hyundai Fortune ship on fire off the coast of Aden. The incident happened on March 21, 2006 and was believed to have been caused by fireworks contained in some of the containers. Because of the hi-tech cargo, the damage caused could cost insurers as much as $300m. The sip ultimately sank. [via]
Video: Police Shootout
A video of a shootout between police and a man wearing a bullet-proof vest. The man was eventually killed after approximately 50 shots were fired by police. [via]
Goliath Frog
Damn! That's one big frog. [via]
64GB Flash Drive
How crazy is this? BUSlink are selling a flash drive that weighs in at a whopping 64GB. Imagine the possibilities? You could run multiple operating systems on it and still have plenty of storage space spare.
I don't trust myself with the 128MB freebie that I had from the Windows Live event I attended back in January so there's no way that I would ever feel safe carrying around this whopper. Luckily there's no chance of that ever happening. At $4,999.99 I won't be getting one any time soon. [via]
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Little Britain Clips
Two classic clips from Little Britain. Non-Brits may or may not find these amusing. [via]
Chernobyl: 20 Years On
Next month, it will be twenty years since the world's worst nuclear disaster took place in Chernobyl. This powerful collection of photos shows the medical, economical and social consequences of the disaster. [via]
Transparent Billboards
Similar to the transparent screens that did the rounds a while back, here are some transparent billboards. [via]
The Stash Shelf
A shelf designed for teenagers that allows them to stash away their porn. The porn, or anything else that they choose to hide, can only be accessed by a special ring. [via]
Skoda Limo
The Skoda Limo comes complete with spray-painted windows, home-made desk and a tasty slice of pizza. [via]
Video: The VD Attack Plan
Yesterday was The Story of Menstruation, today, Walt Disney brings you the VD Attack Plan. [via]
Monday, March 27, 2006
Video: Boys Beware
A 50s propaganda film that attempts to warn boys of the dangers of homosexuals. [via]
Video: Crazy Fireworks Display
This looks more like a warzone than a fireworks display.
Video: Giant Centipede Eats Mouse
A giant centipede catches and kills a mouse. I never realised that centipede's ate mice. This video is quite long and goes beyond the kill - it shows the centipede feasting on said mouse. [via]
