A Welsh View

Floating Home

This house reaches out over a cliff in Chile and whilst the views are stunning, you'll need to be careful after a few pints.

Divided in three floors, Casa 11 Mujeres (House 11 Women, named like that because it was designed for a family with 11 daughters, ages four to twenty) was built with bare concrete with wood floors, glass, and steel on a 45 degree slope looking down Cachagua beach, 87 miles north of Santiago de Chile. The bottom floor contains shared spaces, while the second level has the daughters bedrooms—all overlooking the sea—, and the top floor has the master bedroom, kitchen, living room, and dining room.

Game: Sunny Day Sky

A beautifully designed and very simple game from Orisinal.

Video: Porsche Carrera GT Drifting

Only in Saudi Arabia (I'm presuming where this is from) would you find someone drifting on traffic filled streets in a very expensive Porsche Carrera GT.

Bill Gates Timeline

Now that Bill Gates is no longer a full time Microsoft employee, here's a timeline courtesy of Gizmodo that charts his life.

Win 8 VIP Paintball Passes

If you haven't already enetered, today is the last day that you can win 8 VIP paintball passes. Read more about the contest here (UK only).

Video: Christian The Lion

Christian the Lion was raised by two men in a house in London but when he got to big they released him into the wild.This is what happened when they went to visit Christian in the wild.

Video: Warehouse Sprinkler Accident

A man in a factory sets off a sprinkler. Watch what happens when he tries to fix it.

Video: Top 100 Movies

A well made montage of 100 top movies. How many can you recognise? [via]

Video: Man Stuck In Pavement For Two Hours

West Digital

This is what happened to a man who tried to retrieve a lighter from a hole in the flood. The hole had been dug to fix in a lamppost and the man seemed to think that the 30" diameter hole was big enough to fit in.

The unidentified man was eventually rescued by firefighters, after being laughed at and photographed by morning shoppers in Swansea, south Wales, for more than two hours. Link

Video: Why You Shouldnt Drive Beside a Running Dog

I wasn't expecting this to happen.

Why You Shouldnt Drive Beside a Running Dog

Video: Business Class and Blow Jobs

What a great sales pitch.

Real-Time Tracking Of The International Space Station

This site superimposes the real-time location of the International Space Station on Google Maps. [via]

65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year

As part of their trip to the Lego factory in Denmark, Gizmodo have made a video showing one of the gigantic warehouses that stores the Lego bricks prior to decoration and boxing. There are four warehouses, dubbed cathedrals by Gizmodo, that store 900 million pieces at any given time. They are over 65ft high and cover 65.6sq/miles. Inside each cathedral are four robots that whiz around at up to 2.5 metres per second collecting boxes. The impressive operation is completely automated.

Related: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lego

Car vs Tree

Lots of photos showing what happened to a car when it hit a tree at high speed. The fate of the driver is not known.

Fake Brands

I just love these fake brands.

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

10 must-follow rules top online designers live by in 2008. A great list but they need a an extra commandment - Thou shalt not split short lists of multiple pages.

The $6 Million Home Entertainment System

Weighing in at $6m, this home entertainment system may well be the most expensive in the world, if you can call it a home entertainment system. THe system takes up a lot of space yet only has 3 seats. More pics and a spec list here.

World's Largest Aquarium

The photo above is the world's largest aquarium. Located in the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, the enormous tank is some ten metres deep, 35 metres wide and 27 metres long. It is so big, it can accommodate four whale sharks! More images here.

Video: Car Almost Hit By Train

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Video: Speedpainting a Dragon

This stunning image took an hour to create. There are more videos here.

Nokia N95 Photo Awards - April/May 2008

Image via derekmac

Some stunning photos taken with a Nokia N95.

Video: Sneaky Football Goal

World Now Has 10 Million Millionaires

A new report says that the number of people around the world with at least $1 million in assets passed 10 million for the first time last year. Their total combined wealth is $41 trillion! Link

The Top 20 Reasons Not to Move to Dubai

A detailed list of 20 reasons why you wouldn't want to move to Dubai. Too hot, no beer, expensive, no proper address system, strange weekends... [via]

Funny Google Map Route

Check out #6 on this route between Sydney, Australia and LA.

Daily Tails of Chase... The Cat With No Face

Daily Tails of Chase... is a blog about Chase - a cat born without a face.

Chase, who is now three, was left without a nose, eyelids and skin on her cheeks after being hit by a car as a kitten. According to the blog, Chase is completely healed and is in no pain.

Pig Survives For 36 Days Under Chinese Quake Rubble

A pig has for 36 days under the rubble of the Chinese earthquake by eating charcoal and drinking rainwater. The pig has been purchased by a museum who will take care of it for the rest of its life. More photos here.

Video: Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History

Gizmodo has a video tour of Lego's Memory Lane—the secret vault guarding almost every Lego set ever manufactured - all 4,720 of them. The vault is located in Legoland and Gizmodo have more videos including a Lego Airbus A380, a 750,000-Brick Kennedy Space Center and Lego people business cards.

Video: Simpsons Map for Quake III Arena

A very detailed Quake III map featuring The Simpsons house and Moe's Tavern. [via]

Goatse Ride

Iconic Microsoft Photo Reshot

The iconic photo featuring the 11 original Microsoft employees taken on Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle has been reshot. One person is missing from the new photo due to his death in 2002 but has been replaced with a woman who was absent for the original photo. [via]

Video: Woman Spins On Escalator

If this was a bloke it wouldn't haven't been as good. [via]

Should I Review This Product?

Occasionally I get offered products to review such as laptops and chocolate. I usually jump at the chance because I get to try out something new and sometimes get something to give away to my readers. However, I'm not sure I will take up the latest product review offer. I was contacted by the webmaster of Peloop.com who asked if I wanted to give an unbiased review of one of its products. At first I didn't have any idea what the product in question was and got quite a surprise when I found out what was on offer. The product is a penis enhancement ring that makes 'penis enhancement and enlargement easy' through the use of magnets, tourmaline and germanium. The site, which looks just like a million other spam/scam sites goes into great detail on how the ring can help enlarge your you-know-what. As much as I love testing out new products, I'm not sure that my readers will want an in-depth analysis on what, if anything, this product does to my trouser snake. However, I am tempted to say yes to see if these types of sites actually ship products and from where. Related: This guy was also asked to do a review but I don't think he has.

Update: I've decided that this could be a fun project to undertake and I'd do it in a way that doesn't require me to discuss what's going on in my pants (maybe a little chart on the sidebar) However, after contacting the company today I'm not sure if they are going to send me the product. They read this post and are not sure if I really want to try it out. I'll contact them again tomorrow to see what they say.

Whilst I Was Away

Whilst I was away you may not have seen the following...

Cardiff UFO

Stunned police gave chase to a UFO after it attacked their helicopter near a military base earlier this month.

The mystery aircraft zoomed straight at the chopper as the three-man cop crew prepared to land.

The pilot banked sharply to avoid being hit, then launched into a high-speed pursuit. But he was forced to give up the chase as the helicopter’s fuel ran low - and the UFO escaped.

'Lost' Tribe Wasn't Really Lost

A Brazilian tribe that was reporteded to have been previously undiscovered was actually first discovered in 1910.

Tribal guardian admits the Amazon Indians’ existence was already known, but he hoped the publicity would lift the threat of logging.

The disclosures have been made by the man behind the pictures, José Carlos Meirelles, 61, one of the handful of sertanistas – experts on indigenous tribes – working for the Brazilian Indian Protection Agency, Funai, which is dedicated to searching out remote tribes and protecting them.

Giant Eddie Murphy Spotted On Freeway

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Nettle Eating Contest

A man won the 2008 Nettle Eating Contest by scoffing over 60ft of the stuff.

Hadron Collider May Cause The End Of The World

A Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French/Swiss border, may cause the end of the world if put into operation...or maybe not.

The World's Most Pierced Woman Lives In Edinburgh

The world's most pierced woman lives in Edinburgh (I spotted her on the weekend) and has a stall on the Royal Mile, possibly selling one of her 5,000+ piercings.

Off To Edinburgh

eastdakota99

Off to Edinburgh for a few days for a friends birthday. The beers will be flowing and I may get to see a sight a two (from within a pub). Back soon.

Out Of This World Soap Bubble Photos

© Creative Review

These stunning photos of bubbles look almost celestial. There's a post on Creative Review that shows how the photographs were made. [via]

Burger King Launches £95 ($200) Burger

Contains the usual ingredients that makes food expensive (wagu beef, truffles, etc) and it's upset hunger charities. Personally I think it's fine if somebody wants to spend a ton on a burger. Not buying one will won't help charities and besides, Burger King are donating profits from the burgers charity.

Sea Urchin Bukkake

Spotted at a fancy Manhattan restaurant. If you don't know what it means I ain't telling you. [via]

Related: China renames oddly named menu items for Olympics

The Diminishing Returns Of A Superhero Movie Franchise

Portfolio.com has a graphic showing how Batmans ROI has reduced from over 600% for the first movie down to a loss for the fourth movie and a small return on the fifth.

Video: How to Balance 17 Dominoes on One Dominoe

Learn Magic Tricks at 5min

Is There A Worst Way To Die?

How Stuff Works discusses. Self-Immolation and being covered in sulphuric acid rank up there. [via]

Man Kidnaps Ex-Girlfriend To Get Ironing Done

An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes.

The man, furious at his ex-girlfriend for leaving him, dragged the woman out of a pub in Genoa, bundled her into a car and took her home to make her iron and wash dishes.

Police arrived at his house after being tipped off by a friend of the woman who watched the scene at the pub. [Link]

Woman Sues Victoria's Secret Over Defective Thong

The Smoking Gun has details of a woman who has filed a lawsuit against Victoria's Secret after she got hit in the eye with a decorative piece from a thong. She claims her eyesight will never be the same again.

'Oldest' Computer Music Unveiled

The BBC has a recording of the oldest computer music, captured in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester. The recording features the national anthem, the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In The Mood.

The tunes were played on a Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine.

The recording is not the first time a computer has played music - that title goes to an Australian computer called CSIRAC which played music "months or weeks" before the Ferranti. As of yet nobody has unearthed a copy of the CSIRAC playing music.

You can listen to the recording here.

Power User's Guide to Firefox 3

Get the most out of Firefox 3 with Lifehacker's Power User's Guide.

Iowa Tornado Closeup

AP Photo/Lori Mehmen

Imagine opening your front door and seeing this. Luckily the tornado only damaged trees and crops. The Big Picture has more amazing photos from the Iowa floods.

Casu Marzu (Maggot Cheese)

Image via Wikipedia

Casu marzu, which means "rotten cheese", is found in Sardinia, Italy, and is notable for containing live insect larvae.

Derived from Pecorino Sardo, casu marzu goes beyond typical fermentation to a stage most would consider decomposition, brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly Piophila casei. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese, promoting an advanced level of fermentation and breaking down of the cheese's fats. The texture of the cheese becomes very soft, with some liquid (called lagrima, from the Sardinian for "tears") seeping out. The larvae themselves appear as translucent white worms, about 8 mm (1/3 inch) long. When disturbed, the larvae can jump for distances up to 15 cm (6 inches). Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming; others do not.

The cheese comes with dangers including intestinal larval infestation

Piophila casei larvae can pass through the stomach alive (human stomach acids do not usually kill them) and take up residency for some period of time in the intestines, where they can cause serious lesions as they attempt to bore through the intestinal walls. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhea.

Because of these dangers, thcheese was illegal until 2005. The only reason it was legalised is that the cheese is now made with raised, not wild, flies.

Would you be brave enough to try some?

[Wikipedia]

Photos Of Stuffed Animals, Dressed And Undressed.

Image via Matt Kirkland

Some are nothing more than a small voicebox whilst others are sort of freaky. [via]

Game: How Many Sequels?

I did great on Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th but not so good on the others. [via Andy's Blog]

Video: Great Wall Of China Crapper