Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Where do babies come from Daddy?
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Nine-year-old Titus lies inside a giant green pumpkin that weighs over 400 kg in Boerssum, Germany
Picture: EPASize is important: Small Man with Big Ambitions
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Khagendra Thapa, who is expected to be the world's shortest man next month when he turns 18, stands with Miss Nepal beauty pageant winners during a news conference in Kathmandu.
The Nepal Tourism Board has nominated Thapa and Miss Nepal beauty pageant winners as goodwill ambassadors to promote tourism in Nepal.
Thapa will carry the message: "Shortest man in the world from the highest mountain in the world invites you to visit Nepal"
Picture: REUTERSApple iPad gets Etcha-Sketch case

Hipsters can go nostalgic by slipping on the bright red cover which also acts as a high quality protective case. It was designed to help celebrate the drawing toy's 50th anniversary. Sadly, the white dials do not allow you to draw and shaking the iPad will not clear the screen!
The officially licensed $39.00 case from Headcase is available online here: http://www.getaheadcase.com/products.html
Picture: HEADCASE / REX FEATURES
Have you seen this man? You would remember!
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Police have defended their decision to issue an e-fit of a burglary suspect who looked as though he had a lettuce on his head. Hampshire police issued the image to try to trace a distraction burglar who stole £60 from an elderly woman in Stockbridge.
The offender was described as having wavy blonde/greying hair and being about 40, but the e-fit showed the man with green hair that local residents said looked like a lettuce - causing much laughter in the market town Officers said a technical problem has caused the unusual hair colour and admitted it was not the "best quality"
Man Rescued from Manhole
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He put his hand down the hole in an effort to fish the bottle out. "I touched the bottle but when I was going to pull it out my arm was suddenly sucked in." Wang shouted to wake his wife and the couple spent half an hour trying to free him before admitting defeat and calling for help.
Firefighters first tried to free Wang's arm by covering it in soapy water and then cooking oil, but it was stuck fast. Eventually they had to resort to more desperate measures, entering the flat below and sawing open the pipe Wang's hand was stuck in and then enlarging the hole in his bathroom floor. Eventually, five hours after he first got stuck, Wang was freed
Picture: QUIRKY CHINA NEWS / REX FEATURES
Ninjabread Man

Thursday, September 23, 2010
In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra
Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ignoble Award for the invention last year, an annual tribute to scientific research that on the surface seems goofy but is often surprisingly practical and now Bodnar has brought the eBra to the public.
"The goal of any emergency respiratory device is to achieve tight fixation and full coverage. Luckily, the wonderful design of the bra is already in the shape of a face mask and so with the addition of a few design features, the Emergency Bra enhances the efficiency of minimizing contaminated bypass air flow," explains the eBra website.
It sounds silly, but Bodnar, a Ukraine native who now lives in Chicago, started her medical career studying the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. If people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster, she said, they may have avoided breathing in Iodine-131, which causes radiation sickness.
The bra-turned-gas masks could have also been useful during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and for women caught outside during the dust storms that recently enveloped Sydney, she said.
"You have to be prepared all the time, at any place, at any moment, and practically every woman wears a bra," she said. Her patented devices also look pretty, no different from a conventional bra, she added.
According to a report on tech news site CNET, there are plans for a "counterpart device for men" in the works, though the precise shape it will take has yet to be revealed.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Romance - German style
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A worker finishes the settings of an Oktoberfest haunted house at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany