A new invention launches an eco-friendly, soaplike cloud into the sky, in any shape.

This is from Turkey vs. Germany game (2-3). After Germany getting the win (now going to the finals), a fan is seen running in the field. He might be Turkish because of the red flag he is holding

June 19, 2008 Police said it ranks near the top as one of the oddest things they’ve ever seen. But the palm frond wasn’t the robber’s only weapon. He was also brandishing a pair of flip-flops. Gelando Olivieri burst through the door of V and F Discount Beverage threatening the clerk with the sharp end of a palm frond. (more…)

Who would have thought that snakes will someday be made robotic? And a water / sea snake at that! Here’s what the video submitter has to say about their amazing project:

“Why can snakes move ahead on without legs?” From this problem, we started research of snake biomechanisms, which resulted in the “Why can snakes move ahead on without legs?” From this problem, we started research of snake biomechanisms, which resulted in the development of “Snake Robots”. Snake Robots have many possible applications, even though the structures are simple. Hirose Fukushima Robotics Lab”

Alain Robert, also known as the ‘French Spiderman,’ decided to climb 52 stories of the New York Times building on Thursday before being arrested by the NYPD upon reaching the summit. Robert, who is known to scale high-rises to draw attention to environmental issues, did this particular climb untethered. Upon reaching the top he unfurled a banner that read “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”

The New York Times describes Robert as a:

46-year-old stuntman famous for scaling structures like the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Eiffel Tower and Montparnasse Tower in Paris. He wore a T-shirt with his name and the address of a Web site (thesolutionissimple.org), exercise pants and climbing shoes. He had long blond hair.

Japundit shot a video of a gadget called “The Magical Water Princess,” which is installed in women’s public restrooms to mask sounds of using the toilet.

device called Oto-hime … makes a chirping sound when ladies use the toilet, because Japanese women hate the idea of anyone being able to hear any sounds they make while they go. Before the device was introduced in the 1980s, it seems that female patrons in restraunts would flush the toilet multiple times to mask the sounds, which wasted an incredible amount of water…

Here’s a video of how they work. Just wave your hand over the button and the sound of water will come out of the device, allowing you to do whatever you need to do with without nervousness of people listening to the sounds you make.
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After floating nearly 200 miles in a lawn chair with helium balloons attached, Kent Couch made an emergency landing.
He flew halfway across Oregon using only balloons. (more…)

Sharon Stone pulled a Pat Robertson / Jerry Falwell by suggesting that the earthquake in China was the result of “karma.”

“And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma — when you’re not nice — that the bad things happen to you?”

Now China is boycotting all things Sharon Stone. (more…)

“Los Simpson” is a really creepy live action Spanish version of The Simpsons from the TV show Cruz Y Raya.Com.