Vladimir Putin Chooses His Friends Carefully Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:10 AM PST  Putin and his favourite friends |
The Golden Toilet Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:31 AM PST  If you fancied buying a gold-plated throne that’s fit for a king’s derriere, you would have to be pretty flush to afford it. At £129,000, it might be money down the pan but at least you would be the owner of a unique luxury loo. It was unveiled at the 11th World Toilet Summit and [...] |
Glowing Garden Posted: 30 Nov 2011 05:49 AM PST  UK-based artist Bruce Munro created an awesome light installment entitled Field of Light. Consisting of over 5,000 light bulbs, each of the illuminated orbs are threaded with fibre optic cables and stand atop an acrylic stem. |
The Lost Picture Show Posted: 30 Nov 2011 04:42 AM PST  The owner of this waterlogged camera must have thought it was gone for ever, along with his precious holiday pictures, when he dropped it in the ocean. But a year later a diver spotted it rusting away in the depths and rescued it. Even more astonishingly, he was able to recover the pictures and post [...] |
Portrait Made From Sprinkles Posted: 30 Nov 2011 04:21 AM PST  Joel Brochu has the definition of patience and dedication by creating this huge picture of a beagle using 221,184 hand placed nonpareil sprinkles. He used only 6 colors, and it took 8 months to complete. The image was created using a customized computer program which fashioned a template from the original photo for use as [...] |
Awesome Birds Of Prey Posted: 30 Nov 2011 04:05 AM PST  The internet is full of cats and dogs, so why not take a look at nature’s most majestic killing machines? Swainson’s Hawk Black-Chested Buzzard Eagle Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk White-Tailed Kite Harris Hawk American Kestrel European Kestrel Red-Tailed Hawk Sparrowhawk Brahminy Kite Northern Harrier Golden Eagle Snowy Owl Bald Eagle Saw-Whet Owl Imperial Eagle |