A Welsh View

The 10 Most Comfortable Airline Economy Seats

Geekabout.com discusses economy seats on airlines and it looks like I'm going to be cramped on my BA flight to San Francisco. [via]

Make Google Reader Widescreen-Friendly

Lifehacker has posted a link to a Greasemonkey script that makes Google Reader make better use of your screen real estate.

Highest Tightrope Walk

Two Chinese high wire walkers have set a record after crossing on a single wire more than 850ft above ground.

Adili, vice-chairman of the China Acrobatic Artists Association, and his apprentice, Ya Gebu, 19, completed the stunt without safety wires or nets.

They started at opposite ends and had to climb over each other in the middle of the wire to finish the journey. Link [via]

Video: Stand Collapses At Bullfight

It's a pity that the bull was the only one that died that day.

Baldwin Street, The Steepest Street In The World

With an incline of 1:2.86 or 19 degrees, Baldwin Street in New Zealand is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest street in the world. More photos here.

Poll: Do you think this is the steepest street in the world?

Game: Pipe Twister

This game gets frustrating very quickly.

How to Travel by Cargo Ship

The Traveller's Notebook has a fascinating guide to travelling by cargo ship. I didn't realise that it was possible to travel by cargo ship, at least comfortably. It's not cheap though. It can cost between $80-$140 a day.

And if you are feeling adventurous you can travel around the world. The trip takes between 110-120 days and takes you to Papeete in Tahiti, various sparsely populated and unspoiled islands in the South Pacific, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore then via the Suez Canal, before returning to Europe. There isn't a price listed on the website but it's probably not cheap.

Get QuickOffice For $1

If you are an S60 user, http://www.quickoffice.com/ are selling the latest version of their software for just $1 (50p in our money). It's only for today and the full price is around $50 I think.

8 Nuclear Explosions

A collection of nuclear explosion photos including the one above which is supposed to be from Nagasaki.

Video: Husband Gets Revenge On Wife

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The Sphinx, From Behind

It doesn't look as impressive from this angle. As I've never been there, I didn't realise just how close the Sphinx and the pyramids are to Cairo (see map)

Mac vs PC vs Linux

An update to yesterday's Mac vs PC cartoon. [via]

1960's Electronica Created By Author Of Dr Who Theme Tune

Delia Derbyshire is responsible for creating the Doctor Who theme tune but she's also responsible for creating an electronic track in 1969 that's way before it's time.

Just today I listened to all 3 parts of the BBC Radio series 'The Definitive History of UK Dance Music' which went back to the early 1960's, but it wasn't until the late 1980's that music like Delia's track appeared. [via]

A Car Smashes Into A Restaurant. What Do You Do?

You sit in a restaurant and a car smashes through the wall and hits your booth. What do you do? Find out here.

If Macs and PCs Were Cars

Video: If You Thought Your Job Was Bad

Speed Up Your Torrents

Olivier Chalouhi, developer and CTO of Vuze (aka Azureus) gives some tips on how to speed up downloading torrents.

Zimbabwe Introduces $100 Billion Banknotes

With inflation spiralling out of control, Zimbabwe has introduced a $100 billion note (CNN has a photo of a $500 million note). $100 billion is the equivalent to one U.S. dollar and is enough to buy four oranges.

The official inflation rate is currently at official inflation rate now at 2.2 million percent although it is likely to be a lot higher.

According to Wikipedia, Hungary suffered the highest rate of hyperinflation ever recorded shortly after the Second World War. The value of the Pengő was doubling every 15 hours and in mid-1946 the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000* (100 quintillion) Pengő banknote was issued - the highest denomination banknote ever issued. a one sextillion Pengő was also printed but was never issued.

100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (100 quintillion) Pengő

By the end of July 1946 one U.S. dollar was worth 460 octillion Pengő (460 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000)! To stabilise the economy a new currency was introduced - the Forint. One Forint was worth 400 octillion Pengő.

Related: Other examples of hyperinflation.

* - This is a quintillion as defined by the US (also used by the UN). A British quintillion would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

UFO Crashes In London

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A UFO has crash-landed in London! Well not really. It's just a publicity stunt for a new car from Vauxhall that's being launched on Monday. More photos here and here. [via]

Game: Capsules

This game gets difficult very quickly.

The Worst Movie Endings Ever

The Times critics present the 20 worst endings in film. Where's No Country for Old Men?

A Tour Of Pixar

Rotten Tomatoes takes a tour of Pixar. Plenty of photos of probably one of the best working environments. How many work places have a 'cereal room'?

Venetian Blind T-Shirt

A t-shirt that not only has a print of a venetian blind but also has piece of string that operates the blind. The t-shirt is a bit steep at £50. [via]

A Review of the Hottest Sauce In The World

Hot Sauce Blog reviews Blair's 16 Million Reserve - the hottest sauce in the world. The extravagant bottle contains a tiny 1ml vial of pure capsicum crystals, the hottest chili powder known to man. Nothing in the world could get hotter then this 16 Million Reserve.

From the review:

After about 5 mintues of boiling, my soup was ready to go. First bite was not that hot, so I had the wife take a bite. She threatened divorce once she could speak again.

51 Things You Aren't Allowed to See on Google Maps

A list of 51 things you are note allowed to see on Google Maps.

7 Tech Cheat Sheets

7 cheat sheets in PDF format for Google, Windows, Mac OSX, Firefox, Gmail and Google Reader. The Google reader one was very useful, I didn't realise that you could view your feeds as a list.

Nokia DC-8 Extra Power Review

I'm a bit of a Nokia fanboy and have been purchasing a few accessories for my phones over the past few weeks. For anyone that's interested I'll be posting some reviews of them. First up is the DC-8 Extra Power charger.

The Nokia DC-8 charger is a lipstick-sized charger that you can use to boost or recharge your Nokia phone on the go. The DC-8 uses AA batteries as the source of power which means that you if you run out of power you can buy a pack of regular batteries to recharge your phone.

The Chapel of St. Martin

Could the Chapel of St. Martin be the world's smallest church? More photos at the official website. [via]

The Food Pornographer

The Food Pornographer lives in Perth, Western Australia and simply loves taking photos of food, including this mouth-watering burger.

She takes her camera everywhere with her. Her workmates have grown accustomed to their lunches being photographed.

She makes no claims of being a professional photographer, but she really enjoys taking pictures. [via]

Stripes Illusion

A clever use of stripes that shows a cat running. [via]

Game: Defenders of the Favicon

DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake the classic arcade game Defender that can be played inside the website’s 16×16 pixel favicon. [via]

Video: Jet Skiing In A Hot Tub

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B-2 Stealth Bomber Crash Scene Photos

Popular Mechanics has obtained some exclusive photos of the B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed in Guam back in February. It's amazing to think that there's over a billion dollars worth of plane sat smouldering on a runway.

Asus eeePC 1000H Review

The main reasons for buying an Asus Eee PC 1000H was to have a portable laptop/netbook that I could take on holiday or carry around in my camera bag. The spec didn't need to be that fantastic so I the 1GB of RAM, 80GB HD and 1.6GHz Atom processor were more than enough. All I would want to do is browse the web and blog, transfer photos from my camera to the HD and maybe watch some movies.

After using the netbook for a just under a week, here are my thoughts.

Video: Amblin' - Steven Spielberg's First Completed Film On 35mm

From the description on YouTube:-

Amblin' (1968) is the first completed film shot by Steven Spielberg on 35mm. The film is a short story set during the hippy era of the late '60s about a young couple who meet up in the desert, become friends, then lovers and make their way to a paradisiacal beach.

Here's the full movie.

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Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg

Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching lifespan of just 4-5 months. As far as the scientists know, this strange life history is unique among all land vertebrates, and may help researchers better understand how certain ecological and hormonal factors influence life history evolution. Link

Two Villagers Discover Their Great-Great-Great-Great-Great...

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Using DNA testing of well-preserved Bronze Age bones, Manfred Hucht-hausen, 58, a teacher, and 48-year-old surveyor Uwe Lang can claim to have the longest proven family tree in the world. Mr Lange can already trace his family name to 1550 and can now go back 120 generations.

They have also discovered that their long-lost ancestors may have grilled and eaten other members of their clan. Link

Under The Microscope

Amazing photos of some very small things such as this mouse embryo. Lots more here.

Vegan Zombie T-Shirt

This very cool t-shirt is halfway to being accepted on Threadless and judging by the comments it could be a good seller. [via]

How The Dark Knight Went IMAX

/Film has posted some information about how the 20 minutes of The Dark Knight was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras. They have also posted the above image which shows how much more you get to see compared to the standard 35mm widescreen version.

The IMAX cinema that was fairly close to where I live has closed but luckily the IMAX in London, which has the largest screen in Britain, will still be showing TDK when I visit there in August.

Video: Amazing Bird Formation

Very surreal. [via]

Peloop Update

Well, it's been a week wearing the Peloop penis enlargement ring and the old purple headed womb broom has grown.... 0 inches. I haven't been wearing it permanently but fairly often.

I wasn't expecting anything results from wearing it but at least I've got a few laughs from friends who are surprised that I've actually worn it.

Come back next week for another update.

Video: Floor-By-Floor Demolition - Starting From The Bottom!

This method of demolishing a building may be more environmentally friendly but it's hardly any fun. [Gizmodo has more info]

Chevy Creates World’s First Billboard Made from Pennies, By-passers Strip it Clean

Chevrolet attracted scroungers with its 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins in London’s New Oxford Street. The billboard installed last week, consisted of 20,000 pennies was created to advertise the 769,500p (£7,695) Aveo. In just 30 minutes, Londoners had stripped the billboard clean. [More photos here]

Video: Pizza Store Clerk Knocks Out Robber

Click here to watch this robber getting knocked unconscious by a pizza shop clerk.

Turn Yourself Into A Doll

For $160, Be A Doll will hand make a doll based on a photo that you submit. Some of them are actually pretty good. [via]

All Menus

Allmenus.com lists a staggering 244,822 menus in 8,146 cities across America. The site is extremely easy to use and is very comprehensive. This is another site that will come in uselful for my California holiday.

Video: Will It Blend - iPhone 3G

Of course it will.

Vintage Fitness Equipment

I wouldn't be surprised if the people featured using this vintage fitness equipment actually exercised in their suits.

Cow Farts Collected In Plastic Tank For Global Warming Study

Argentinian scientists have strapped plastic tanks to the back of cows in a bid to understand the impact of the wind produced by cows on global warming. The researchers discovered methane from cows accounts for more than 30 per cent of the country's total greenhouse emissions. Link