 Blacklight-Reactive Body Art (UPDATE) - Glow in the Dark Tattoos::If you want a tattoo but want to hide it during work or while you’re with family, then there’s now a technique that’s perfect for you.
The new technique uses blacklight reactive ink which only shows up… [MORE] |
 Bald Body Mods - 10 Head Tattoos::These give a whole new layer to the phrase "Think before you ink." If you want to make sure everyone sees your tattoo and positively can't miss it, then you have to ink your design on your head. I talk… [MORE] |
 Camouflaging Self-Harm Scars - Body Reclamation Provides Fresh Slate::Cover-up tattoos are common; people often get a design, but then change their minds (or partner) and want it covered with another image. It is also becoming more and more common, however, for people to… [MORE] |
 Art from Farm Feed - 10 Haystack Sculptures::It can get pretty boring for folks living on farms, so what can men and women of the land to do amuse themselves? Create quirky works of art out of hay bales, of course!
This collection of 10 pieces of… [MORE] |
 Coffin Cakes - Baking with Dead Barbie Dolls::This is ridiculous and creepy. I mean, who spends hours and hours making a cake coffin to put a dead and mutilated Barbie doll into? This person, apparently.
I don't want to be a killjoy but you can't… [MORE] |
 Unusual Career Changes - Podiatrist-Candyman Starts 'Toe-Food Chocolates'::I have reached the end of the internet - a site that only sells toe food. Sweets and chocolate that looks like toes or feet.
However, they sound really really really dull on the website, as you can see… [MORE] |
 Bizarre Alternative Medicine - From Mud Baths to Eating Tree Frogs::I know some practices in other cultures may seem odd or even downright dangerous to those of us who grew up with so-called 'modern' medicine, and I know some of those 'folk remedies' actually work better… [MORE] |
 Chocolate Deities - 8 Gods Everyone Can Worship::Chocolate is chocolate, right? No. While chocolate may be most frequently revered as the Patron Saint of Broken Hearts, it has branched out. Now you get chocolate deities of your choosing.
The site seems… [MORE] |
 Vampire Cat Clubs - 10 Scary Felines::Sometimes cats lose their teeth, and other times they have teeth in horrifying abundance! A friend recently spent £500 on her cat’s teeth, which are now so bright that sunglasses need to be worn if the… [MORE] |
 MLB Playoff Ticket Frenzies - Chicago Craigslist on Fire for NCLS::On Friday, tickets for Major League Baseball's National League Championship Series (NLCS) between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers went on sale. In the first hour, over 3500 ads appeared on… [MORE] |
 Offensive Ringtones - 'Psycho Teddy' Tune Protested by Mental Health Charity::Australia's answer to the Crazy Frog, Psycho Teddy, has had his ringtone frenzy toned down after receiving protests from a mental health charity. He now has to be called Teddy Z.
While his lyrics encourage… [MORE] |
 Big Cats That Love Water - White Bengal Tiger Dives for Food::This is Odin, a six-year-old white Bengal tiger that measures 10 feet long from nose to tail. Unfortunately, he is not in the wild but instead lives at a zoo in Vallejo, California, which is near San Francisco.… [MORE] |
 Sportvertising - 10 Amazing Sporting Ads::This collection of sports related ads help sell products and promote services all over the world. Some of the best are the Nike ads which use decals on bus shelters and on buildings to give the illusion… [MORE] |
 Urinals as Sculptures - 10 Bizarre Toilets::This collection of unique urinals includes some of the oddest toilets from around the world.
From sharing a toilet to working from one, from public peeing to praying while peeing, the boundaries of many… [MORE] |
 Confusing Toilet Signs - 10 Clever Bathroom Placards::You know what it’s like--you need to go to the toilet, are a teeny bit drunk, and then have to work out what toilet is the men’s and what loo is the women’s.
Bar and club owners are increasingly making… [MORE] |
 Adoption Addictions - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Want Another Child::Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie may have a squeaky-clean humanitarian image to uphold, but the superstar couple has a raging addiction to adoption that refuses to be kicked--even now, just two months after… [MORE] |
 Extreme Halloween Exteriors - 10 Pumpkin Houses::The Kenova Pumpkin House in West Virginia is the flagship home in this category, with over 3,000 pumpkins decorating its exterior.
Every year Ric Griffith and an army of volunteers carves the pumpkins… [MORE] |
 Geek Pumpkins - Jack o' Lanterns for Gamers::You can always rely on geeks to come up with something snazzy on holidays, and these gamers haven't disappointed for Halloween with these carved pumpkins.
These game-inspired Jack o' Lanterns are quite… [MORE] |
 Jumping Jackrabbit Competitions - Rabbit Hopping in Denmark::I have now officially seen it all and come to the end of the web with these show jumping rabbits from Denmark. Officially called 'Rabbit Hopping,' this bizarre phenomenon started in Sweden in the 1980s… [MORE] |
 Iconic Birthday Celebrations - World’s Largest Smoking Ban for Ghandi’s 139th::In these first five images, children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi wait for their turn to perform during a fancy dress competition to honor what would have been his 139th birthday. Check out the children dressed… [MORE] |
 Ice-Cold Hotspots - The Icebar Opens in Orlando::Fresh-faced after its October 1 grand opening, Icebar Orlando is the first and largest permanent ice bar in the U.S. Open year-round, the $35 cover charge gets you 45 minutes of freezing in the 27-degree… [MORE] |
 Feline Couture - Cat Prin Tailored Clothing::Cat Prin is basically a cat owner’s dream and a cat’s nightmare. This Japanese web store sells only fancy dress clothes for cats.
Some of these designs are just brutal. Being in Japanese (or badly translated… [MORE] |
 Dumb Stunts for Cancer Prevention - Quit Stupidity Anti-Smoking Ads::These ads for the INEN Cancer Prevention Center take a comical approach to raise awareness about the dangers of smoking.
The concept of the campaign is to show extremely stupid suicidal stunts that any… [MORE] |
 Knitting Gone Wrong - Blog Catalogs Worst Woven Goods::Knitting has experienced a revival of sorts, with all kinds of crazy things going down in the world of those two clacking needles.
Why Would You Knit That?! is an awesome new blog that chronicles some… [MORE] |
 Brain Piercings - Creepy Body Mod Causes Constant Euphoria::I tried and tried to think of the next hot bod mod and just couldn’t come up with a body part that had not already been pierced, but my brain wasn’t working right. So I twirled the little piercing in my… [MORE] |
 Regret Trumps a Hangover - Sao Paulo State Government DUI Ads::This creative ‘Don’t drink and drive’ campaign by the Sao Paulo State Government shows you that there is something much worse than a hangover on the following morning after a wild night--regret.
While… [MORE] |
 Surgical Lookalikes - Angelina Jolie Tops Patient Request List::Angelina Jolie is revered all over the world for her stunning looks. Indeed, Angelina Jolie topped a patient poll conducted by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery as the celebrity with… [MORE] |
 37 Ways to Make Cleaning Fun::You hate cleaning, so do I, but it doesn't have to suck you know? OK, fine, so vacuuming will always suck, but chores can be fun. While no one has found a way to get birds and mice to help you a la Cinderella… [MORE] |
 Government-Subsidized Gyms - South Korea Combats Childhood Obesity::Childhood obesity is an issue all over the world, and South Korea is tackling the epidemic head on. The government is sending vouchers to elementary school students whose body mass indexes indicate that… [MORE] |
 Dancers Are The New Rockstars - Bellydance Superstars::It's fair to say that the Bellydance Superstars are massive in popularity. They are a professional American belly dance troupe formed by Miles Copeland in 2002.
The past year has seen them dramatically… [MORE] |
 Ultra-Light Bicycle Wheels - The Lew Racing Pro VT-1 Set::What do you get when you make a bicycle wheel out of boron, a super lightweight material? The lightest set of bicycle wheels in the world, with both weighing in at under 850 grams.
You also get the most… [MORE] |
 Beach Art - 10 Incredible Sand Sculptures::Most of us head to the beach to relax, sunbathe, swim, or catch a few waves. Some people, however, choose to spend their day at the beach painstakingly creating these incredible sand sculptures.
These… [MORE] |
 37 Adventures For Thrill Seekers::Steve Fossett, an adventurer who was lost in 2007, is making his way back into the media this week. Hikers in California discovered the wallet and pilots license of Steve Fossett inside a crashed plane.… [MORE] |
 Calling in Lovesick - Paid Time Off After Breakups::We've all had our hearts broken at one point in our lives, but we sure wouldn't get paid time off to heal--unless we worked for Hime and Co. They are a Japanese firm in the U.K. that offers this benefit… [MORE] |
 Contaminated Candy - Melamine Found in White Rabbit Creamy Candy::White Rabbit Creamy Candy is being hastily pulled from store shelves all over the world after tests found traces of melamine in the popular candy.
Melamine is an industrial additive used to make plastics… [MORE] |
 Star Wars Fashion - The Stormtrooper Hoodie::This Star Wars hoodie looks good enough for even non-fans to sport. Stormtroopers are indeed the clotheshorses of Star Wars.
This Stormtrooper hoodie lets you show the world that you’re a Star Wars fan… [MORE] |
 Real-Life Gremlins - 10 Ugly Animals::They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in this instance no one could ever say any of these creatures are attractive. They might be adorable (sort of), but they are ugly as sin nevertheless.… [MORE] |
 Doggie Dress-Up - 10 Brutal Pet Halloween Costumes::There are few things funnier in life than pets in fancy dress. You can just about get away with it at Christmas, but Halloween is a free-for-all. One of the things that makes it all so funny is the ‘someone… [MORE] |
 Tattoos of Musicians - 10 Inked Band Tributes::Tattoos come in many forms, and musical-inspired tattoos are ones that ring particularly true for me. I just had one pictured above, 'Love will tear us apart,' for my Dad, Martin (RIP) and Charley.
I… [MORE] |
 Menstrual Chic - Moxie Tampons::Periods are not glamorous, so unlike a fashionista’s shoe collection, tampons have never really been stylish.
But why shouldn’t they be? After all, we have to carry them around with us much of the time,… [MORE] |
 Life Sized Cow Cakes - Udderly Amazing Bakery::This anatomically correct cow wedding cake is truly remarkable; not only is it highly detailed, but it's also life size.
About the size of a real cow, it measures 2ft wide, 4ft long, and 3ft tall. It… [MORE] |
 Pushing Gross Packaging - New Images on U.K. Cigarette Packs::Gruesome images await British smokers today as a new series of graphic pictures is set to appear on cigarette packages. Canadian smokers have seen similar images for years and it has had a dramatic impact… [MORE] |
 Harry Potter Pumpkins - Muggles Celebrating Halloween::These are nothing short of brilliant; so brilliant, in fact, I have included one with ‘lights off’ so you can see that it is not a photoshop job.
There are a ton of websites where you can download pumpkin… [MORE] |
 Credit Crunch Rebellion - 35 Of The World’s Most Expensive Objects::I am bored to tears of hearing of credit crunch woes. To rebel, here are 35 things to metaphorically flip off the bleak times ahead.
Just a small catch - you have to be seriously wealthy as this includes… [MORE] |
 Mozzarella Bars - Obikà in Manhattan::Mozzarella is the new sushi in New York, ever since the opening of Obikà (pronounced Oh-bee-KA), Manhattan’s first mozzarella bar.
It is like a sushi bar that uses buffalo mozzarella instead of fish,… [MORE] |
 Painting Your Pets - Living Colorful Cats::I laughed so hard when I saw these painted cats that my own cat stalked outside in disgust. These painted cat images are brilliant, as no animal can make a face as fed up and outraged as a cat.
I suspect… [MORE] |
 Blogs That Worship Punctuation - Ampersand Addiction::An ampersand is a scribal abbreviation for the word “and,” derived from the Latin word “et” (which are also my initials).
Someone out there really likes the amperes and thinks “”it is often the most attractive… [MORE] |
 Deaf Dancers - Paralympic 'Hello Stars' Performance::The 2008 Paralympics may have come and gone, but the inspiring videos of the 320 hearing-impaired and deaf dancers who performed the 'Hello Stars' dance in Beijing will continue to live on.
Learning… [MORE] |
 Retro Mannequin Dishes - The Girls by John Waters::The Girls by John Waters is a limited collection of three, 10 1/4 inch porcelain plates featuring mannequin busts of girls Waters named Tina, Kathy, and Kim. All of “The Girls” are wearing thick make-up… [MORE] |
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