Kiviaq – Probably The World’s Most Disgusting Meat Dish
Kiviaq – the name sounds exotic, but wait till you hear how it is prepared. I guarantee you’ll lose your appetite completely. Imagine a dish so pungent and smelly that people eat it outside the house, so it doesn’t stink up the place for weeks. Before I actually get down to telling you what it […]
Man Installs Wood Stove in His Volvo to Beat the Cold
Wouldn’t it be great to have a car-companion that simply radiates warmth on a cold, cold winter’s day? Well, Pascal Prokop has just that, except his companion isn’t human. While most people complain about the cold, this guy from Switzerland actually decided to do something about it by putting a stove in his car – […]
Purga Nightclub – Where Every Night Is New Year’s Eve
The holiday season is a truly magical time around the world. New Year’s Eve, especially, is seen as a time of hope and new beginnings, a time to forget the old and embrace the new. Most people are in high spirits, celebrating the coming of the new year with much pomp and gusto. But what […]
Hauntingly Realistic Human Figures Carved by Real-Life Geppetto
Whether painted or sculpted, I’ve always found hyper-realist artworks fascinating, but Bruno Walpoth’s masterpieces are particularly impressive simply because they are carved from large pieces of wood. I’m not saying working with other materials to create realistic shapes is easy, but turning something as rigid as wood into works of art that seem almost alive takes something truly special. […]
Spikeball – Volleyball’s Brilliant Distant Cousin
Intense, competitive, trash talk – are the three terms used by the founders of Spikeball to describe the game. After watching a short video of how the sport is played on their website, I’m finding it very hard to disagree. It’s really quite exciting just to watch, so playing it should guarantee an absolute whale […]
Drive-Through Funeral Home Is Convenient Yet Creepy
A funeral is something people generally make time for out of their busy schedules – to mourn and also to offer their condolences. So when I first heard of drive-through funerals, I was quite surprised. I mean, do people not have time to even grieve anymore? I wondered if the concept was even appropriate, so […]
Coolest Finds of the Week #27
10 Incredible Airplane Graveyards (Environmental Graffiti) Eagle Dad Makes 10-Year-Old Boy Run through Snow Naked (CNN) Judge Sentences Man to Date with His Wife (MSN) Identical Twins Are Totally Different (The Sun) Dad Shoots Daughter’s Laptop to Teach Her a Lesson (Bit Rebels) Sewage Plant Offers Valentine’s Day Tours (Huffington Post) Teenagers Rob Hotel to […]
Meet the Man Who Lived on His Bicycle for 382 Days
It’s difficult to imagine someone living, eating, sleeping and even washing clothes on a bicycle for over a year. But that’s exactly what French artist and copyeditor Guillaume Blanchet from Montreal has done. He even cooked his own food and flirted with women, while perched on the narrow bicycle seat. And that’s not all. A three-minute […]
El Diablo Restaurant – Cooking Food over an Active Volcano
What could be more natural than having a barbecue party on a volcano? Apart from the obvious health and safety hazards, that is. But such things are not a concern at the El Diablo restaurant, where chefs actually cook food over the heat produced by an active volcano. Located on a Spanish island called Lanzarote, […]
Quick and Cheap: Divorce Hotel Opens in the Netherlands
Couples on romantic weekend getaways tend to make a spur-of-the-moment decision to get married. And it is for this reason that several hotels, especially in places like Vegas, provide wedding chapel services. If getting married could be that easy, then why the long-drawn out process for a divorce? Well apparently, not anymore. It is now […]
The Bottled Smoke Artworks of Jim Dingilian
Jim Dingilian is one of those rare artists who stretch the limits of creativity with their amazing creations. He uses candle smoke to paint picture-perfect images on the inside of empty bottles. “The miniature scenes I depict are of locations on the edge of suburbia which seem mysterious or even slightly menacing despite their commonplace […]
Canadian Company Invents Scratch-and-Sniff Jeans for Men
When I was a kid, scratch-and-sniff stickers were the rage. We had all kinds of flavors and odors back then. While I have no idea if kids these days are still into such things, it does seem the in-thing for grown men, not with stickers, but jeans! Last week, a Canadian company launched a brand […]
Man Spends 25 Years, $10,000 Making Himself an Egyptian-Style Coffin
People making their own coffin isn’t new to us here at OC. But the story of Fred Guentert sure is. Because he’s been building himself a coffin that’s fit for an Egyptian pharaoh – for the past 25 years. Guentert, who is now 89 years old, has kept himself occupied for about a quarter of […]
Sweden’s Classroom-Free School – The Future of Education?
It’s news like this that makes me wish I could become a kid and go back to school again. I mean, just look at the pictures. If school was like this, who wouldn’t want to go? To me, the school looks like it’s come out of the future, or from a sci-fi movie. It’s definitely surreal. […]
Woman Has 10 Plastic Surgeries to Look Like Anime Girl
We live in a world where plastic surgeries and beauty ‘enhancement’ procedures have become the norm rather than the exception. Even so, spending $136,000 on 10 procedures just to get a certain look seems pushing it way too far. But that’s exactly what Jacqueline Koh, a 29-year-old fashion designer fro Singapore has done to herself, in an […]