Mix a female bodybuilder with a steel drum band and a Rubik's Cube and what do you get? A very weird video! And worst of all, if you look carefully you can see it's played in reverse. (at the 1:02 minute mark, look at her hair)
Was this on television last night? No, not really!
Make your own Who Wants to be a Millionaire? scene. The site is in French but it's not that difficult to figure out what you have to do. Click on 'Remix cette image', change the text and click on 'Tester mon remix.'
Colombian coffee growers are brewing up a lawsuit over a U.S. comic strip joking that violence is so rampant there, maybe 'there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every can' of the country's java.
The Colombian Coffee Growers Federation says it has consulted with U.S. lawyers and will sue 'Mother Goose & Grimm' cartoonist Mike Peters 'for damage and harm, detriment to intellectual property and defamation.'
The first cookbook to use standardized measurements in its recipes, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, was published in 1896. Edited by Fannie Farmer, the book became one of America's favorite cookbooks and was republished as The Fanny Farmer Cookbook.
The full text of the original 1896 edition is available on the Internet, in images as well as in transcript.
This is an oldie but a goldie. A wrestler (the guy to the right in the black shirt) asks the audience to throw him a folding chair and just about every fan in attendance decided to comply with the request.
Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge a new law forcing them to wear helmets, authorities say. According to the new law, all motorbike drivers and motorbike passengers must wear helmets.
Kano Federal Road Safety Commission commander Yusuf Garba told the BBC they were taking a hard line with people found using the improvised helmets. 'We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety,' he said.
Like a chocoholic with keys to a Godiva shop, a young harbor seal found herself in sea mammal heaven yesterday - the Sandwich Hatchery. And before she was captured and released on a salt water beach, the little seal managed to munch on untold numbers of four-pound trout.
She had to travel about two miles from the area of the Sandwich Boardwalk on Cape Cod Bay, follow a creek that passes under a mini-golf course and Route 6A and runs through a wooded area skirting the fish hatchery, before somehow making her way to the hatchery lagoons.
Gapminder published a different kind of world map in November last year. The directions are not North and South, but Healthy and Sick, and not West and East, but Rich and Poor.
The chart was produced in 2008 but the data is from 2006, showing information from the UN Statistics Division, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and others sources.
When you click on the map you will be shown a pdf document.
