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Anarchist Artists - £6m House Becomes Squatters' Art Installation A group of artists calling themselves 'Da! Collective' have taken over a £6 million six-story mansion in London's exclusive Mayfair area by posing as builders, and are now squatting there while turning… [Related +/-]

Real Furbys - Live Pygmy Tarsier Found After 85 Years (GALLERY) Widely believed to have been extinct, the pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, has been found on a mountain-top on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Until now, scientists had… [Related +/-]

Money Make-Overs - The Dutch-Designed 5 Euro Coin (GALLERY) The Euro has just had a beautiful makeover as a result of a design competition run by the Dutch Ministry of Finance. The newly-minted design for the five Euro coin is the work of artist and architect,… [Related +/-]

$30 Million Barbie Houses - Barbie Flagship Store in Shanghai The world's first Barbie flagship store has just opened its doors in Shanghai. Hoping to cash in on Chinese consumerism, Mattel spent a cool US $30 million to build the massive, 3,400 square-meter, ‘House… [Related +/-]

Buying New Island Nations - Maldives To Buy New Homeland (VIDEO) The Maldives are starting to save to buy a new homeland because their low-lying country is expected to disappear if predictions by climate change models are true. Already most of the Maldives, a chain… [Related +/-]

Secret Service Code Names - Barack Obama is 'Renegade' The Secret Service has announced the code names allocated to each member of the Obama family. The Obama clan now all have awesome ‘nicknames’ beginning with the letter R. President-Elect Barack Obama:… [Related +/-]

Geotagged Documentaries - A Virtual Trip to South Africa with ‘Mobikasi’ (VIDEO) Mobikasi is a mobile documentary about youth culture in the township of Soweto, South Africa. All the clips are geo-tagged to a location so you can explore real places in Soweto via your phone. Mobikasi… [Related +/-]

A 53 Trend Salute in Honor of Remembrance and Veterans Day (CLUSTER) On November 11, while some American will relish in a paid day off on Veterans Day, millions of others will join to honor those in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines who make sacrifices for their country. Canadians… [Related +/-]

Post-Campaign Scandals - GOP Advisors Blast Sarah Palin (VIDEO) President-elect Barack Obama took the States by storm, campaigning has finished and the fat lady has sung; now McCain advisors are singing about their outrage over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, acceptance of… [Related +/-]

Voting with Gum - "Who Sucks The Most" Guerilla Street Elections (GALLERY) In cities all over the world, people have been voting... with gum! Now that the big election day only ONE DAY away, there seem to be a pattern forming on the streets. Check out this art poster campaign… [Related +/-]

Political Perfumes - POTUS 1600 Obama Cologne This unique, politically inspired fragrance is called POTUS 1600. It was launched to commemorate Barack Obama's historic run for President. According to the website "the fragrance is a clean, refreshing…

Beach and Ice Bars - Club Index in Germany (VIDEO) The largest ice bar in the world is inside oen of Germany's hottest night clubs, Index. When they're in Europe, this is where VIPs like Beyonce, Missy Elliot, Redman, Busta Rhymes, JaRule, DMX, 50 cent… [Related +/-]

Accidental Guerrilla TV Ads - Clean Drinking Water by Music is Life (VIDEO) What is amazing about this campaign is that creating awareness doesn’t require a giant marketing budget, but excellent ideas. This TV spot, by 'Music is Life,' in collaboration with Red Cross, and the… [Related +/-]

Call Girl Voices to Get Votes - Controversial Robo-Call for California Candidate Using Robo-Calls to drum up voter support is at an all-time high this year, with candidates across the board making record numbers of automated calls to American homes before election day. Unfortunately,… [Related +/-]

Pro-Life Pharmacies - Drugstores Refuse to Sell Birth Control (VIDEO) Seven U.S. pharmacies have decided to refuse to sell birth control to their customers. Saying that "birth control compromises faith," these pharmacies have gotten around the legalities of refusing to fill… [Related +/-]

Government Web Control - Turkey's Extreme Blog Censorship (VIDEO) After months of spotty access to YouTube, Turkish authorities have now banned reach to Blogger.com. Thousands of bloggers cannot reach their blogs, and readers cannot read blogs hosted on Blogger. In… [Related +/-]

Star Wars City Invasions - Death Star Appears Over San Francisco (VIDEO) Eyewitnesses in San Francisco recorded this amazing footage of what appears to be a Death Star over San Francisco. The footage has grown viral, and viewers all over the world are wondering if it's a hoax.… [Related +/-]

Unexpected Aerial Lights - Mysterious Pink Spot Looms Over London (GALLERY) London residents were left confused last October 20th when an eerie pink light loomed over the night sky of the city. Bewildered onlookers in Mayfair held their heads up high to see the eerie alien-like… [Related +/-]

$15M Animal Rehab Centers - Treatment Facilities for Military Working Dogs Military working dogs who have gotten injured while on duty now have their own state-of-the-art $15 million hospital treatment center. This is good news for the canine personnel of Lackland Air Force Base,… [Related +/-]

Rewarding Irresponsibility - AIG Executive Post Bailout Retreat (GALLERY) Just how does AIG deal with high level employees who were irresponsible and lied in the books, so much so that American taxpayer dollars were used to save their collective assets?  Why, you give AIG Executives… [Related +/-]

Real Estate Public Shaming - 'Rent Dodger Lives Here' Signs An English Real Estate Agency has come up with a creative way to ‘encourage’ renter’s to cough up their rent money when they fall behind on their payments. In an effort to embarrass tenants into paying… [Related +/-]

Ecomoons - Recyling Rubbish for Air Miles Honeymoon (GALLERY) A British couple spent three months scouring the streets, day and night, collecting recyclable garbage in order to pay for their honeymoon flights with Air Miles. The couple collected 60,000 pieces of… [Related +/-]

Multi-Country Cab Rides - £2,000 Taxi Fare from UK to Germany When you miss a flight from the UK to Germany for your friend's stag night, what's a guy to do? Well, one British man forked out just shy of £2,000 to make the 740 mile journey from Portsmouth, UK to… [Related +/-]

£10,000 Pet Voices - Operation Gives Cat's Meow Back A British pet owner spent £10,000 on an operation to give her cat, Cadbury, back its meow which it lost after suffering a rare throat condition. Vets diagnosed the cat with a paralyzed larynx which left… [Related +/-]

Government-Subsidized Gyms - South Korea Combats Childhood Obesity (VIDEO) 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… [Related +/-]

Contaminated Candy - Melamine Found in White Rabbit Creamy Candy (VIDEO) 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… [Related +/-]

Eco Iceland Initiatives - Mitsubishi iMiEV Electric Car Program (VIDEO) Iceland has a brave challenge. In 1998 they made a promise to be totally fossil fuel free by 2050. With only 40 years left to achieve the goal, they are making significant steps to actualize it. They… [Related +/-]

Cruise Ships With Lawns - Celebrity Solstice, the World's Largest Cruise Ship (GALLERY) The world's largest passenger ship, at 315m, set sail as thousands of spectators watched. The Celebrity Solstice is so large, it just about squeezed through the Papenberg Watergates. The Celebrity Cruises… [Related +/-]

$25,000 Hotel Rooms - Atlantis The Palm Hotel in Dubai (GALLERY) Defying the current credit crunch, people with mega-money are paying $25,000 per night to stay at the decadent Dubai hotel Atlantis The Palm. The $25,000-per-night 3-bedroom suites come complete with… [Related +/-]

Multicultural Event Planning - Toilets at 2012 Olympics to Face Away from Mecca Toilets at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be built facing away from Mecca so that Muslims do not have to face their holy city when sitting on the loo. The Olympic Delivery Authority, the team behind… [Related +/-]

Roasted Candidates - Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Flub (VIDEO) McCain must be rolling over in his grave, oh, he’s not dead? Sarah Palin must be killing him! In her interview with Katie Couric, Palin gets tongue-tied when asked about her statement that her foreign… [Related +/-]

Prison Runway Shows - Fashion Created Behind Bars (GALLERY) On September 17th, inmates held a fashion show in the El Salvador prison Rosa Virginia Pelletier in Ilopango, San Salvador. They showed off casual fashions created within the prison walls on an improvised…

Focused Virtual Intent - The Peace Intention Experiment (GALLERY) Could humanity finally have found a solution to the peace problem - in the most unlikely of places? They said, "Where there is a will, there is a way." After exhausting the options of talks, force, coercion,… [Related +/-]

$85 Billion Loans - AIG Bailout “The Most Radical Intervention” in History An $85 BILLION loan to bail out AIG? Sarah Palin’s thoughts on that one would be interesting. Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, American Internatioal Group.... these are names that will belong to the… [Related +/-]

Virtual Compassion - Sharing Photos of Hurricane Ike (GALLERY) As Hurricane Ike threatens Galveston and Houston, gas prices are one of many thing on people’s minds. Comfortingly, events like this reveal what I’m dubbing virtual compassion. The internet has become… [Related +/-]

Replacing Iconic Fashion Editors - Aliona Doletskaya to Succeed Anna Wintour at Vogue (GALLERY) New York Fashion Week heads have been turning toward a Vogue editor, and shockingly, she isn't Anna Wintour. Aliona Doletskaya, the editor of Vogue Russia, is rumored to be the next editor of Vogue U.S.… [Related +/-]

Discovering Forgotten Music - Beethoven Sketchbook Reveals Final Song (VIDEO) A piano piece has surfaced that an expert believes is Beethovan’s last. Beethoven said, “Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” For real, Google it! Just when the world… [Related +/-]

$2 Million Rewards - FBI Seeks Winter Hill Gang Boss, James "Whitey" Bulger (VIDEO) The FBI is so desperate to catch James “Whitey” Bulger, the boss of the Winter Hill Gang, they’re doubling the reward. They’re offering $2 million for the capture of mob boss in time or his 79th birthday.… [Related +/-]

Monster Sailboats - PUMA's 'Il Monstro' for the Volvo Ocean Race (VIDEO) Athletic brand PUMA has a menacing entry in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-2009. The ultra modern racing boat named “Il Monstro” which means ‘The Monster’ was christened in May by actress Selma Hayek. Il… [Related +/-]

Free iPods and iPhones for Students - Four Universities Get Techy This year, several universities are testing different tech strategies that include giving free iPods and iPhones to incoming freshman students. The Universities can use the technology to create a better…

Solar Powered Highways – Oregon's Renewable Energy Project (VIDEO) Oregon’s new solar powered highway reinforces the state’s commitment to sustainable renewable energy. It takes a lot of energy to power Oregon’s state transportation system--about 45 million hilowatt-hours.… [Related +/-]

Collecting Inflated, Worthless Money - Billion Dollar Bills From Around the World (GALLERY) Anyone who’s ever complained about the poor U.S. economy has no reason for complaint compared with the inflation that’s run rampant in these six countries. Take Zimbabwe, for example. This country was… [Related +/-]

China and Georgia Citizen News Coverage - Letting the People Report (GALLERY) Georgia and Russia are now on the brink of a full-fledged war, at the same time as the Beijing Olympic Games, leaving global media flustered as they are torn about where to focus coverage. Of course,… [Related +/-]

Fashion Shows for Rodents - Peru Guinea Pig Fashion Parade (GALLERY) I have never really seen the point of Guinea Pigs, but these little guys really are very funny. It's the little rodents in the hat that do it for me. Their Andean female owners are taking part in a…

Beijing Olympics Covered by Citizen Journalists - GroundReport in China (VIDEO) The schedule for the Beijing Olympics seems to be right on target, with the opening ceremony kicking off as a heartbeat raising spectacle. The internet is being flooded with photo and video footage as…

The Image Mill - Canada’s 1,968 Foot Wide Movie Projection (VIDEO) If you are currently in Quebec city, you are in luck! To celebrate Québec City’s 400th anniversary, artist Robert Lepage created a wonderful motion picture that is especially designed to be projected…

Leaked Olympic Rehearsals - China Furious over Footage (VIDEO) Top secret footage of the opening rehearsal for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has been released, and China isn't pleased. The tape shows participants doing a full dress rehearsal inside the Bird’s Nest…

Accidental Earthquake Coverage - Judge Judy Caught Mid-Quake (VIDEO) A video of a Judge Judy taping during the Southern California earthquake yesterday is circling the web. The normally stern reality show judge hasn't shown any signs she could be shaken by anything, but…

Earthquake Weddings - Photos in the Wake of the China Quake (GALLERY) Since the California earthquake has our mind on earthquakes once again, it's an appropriate time to showcase this dramatic gallery of photos taken on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan, China. A photographer was… [Related +/-]

Britney Spears Comback - Sadomasochistic Sex Movie to Boost Her Profile? Britney Spears is "reportedly" in final negotiations to star in ‘The Knoxville Carjacking Party’, an intense ’sadomasochistic sex movie’. The movie "she might star" in is based on the true story…

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