Ice cream à la commode tops off a meal at Taipei's Modern Toilet diner, where thankfully the food tastes better than it looks. There are already 12 such chain restaurants in Taiwan catering to an apparently deep-seated national toilet fetish. (Reuters / Nicky Loh)
Friday, November 16, 2007
Haewoojae
A lavatory-shaped house, Haewoojae, which means the house for satisfying one's anxiety, is seen in Suwon, about 46 km (29 miles) south of Seoul, November 9, 2007. South Korean sanitation activists will mark the start of a global toilet association on November 21 by lifting the lid on the world's first lavatory-shaped home that offers plenty of water closet space. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak (SOUTH KOREA)
Skull Kiss
A girl kisses the skull of St. John Chrysostom in a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to the saint in Lakatamia, Cyprus. Thousands of Cypriots queued for hours to touch the revered Christian relic, credited with two miraculous cures in the past three days. The silver-encased skull, on a rare trip from its home in a northern Greek monastery, will remain in Cyprus until Nov. 20. (AP / Petros Karadjias)
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Ready To Wear
A model presents a creation by Indian designer Manish Arora during the Spring/Summer 2008 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, September 30, 2007. (AFP/Francois Guillot)
LomoWorldWall
A couple walk through the LomoWorldWall exhibition in Trafalgar Square, London September 21, 2007. The exhibition by the Lomographic Society International includes images from all over the world that create the large mural which is part of the London Design Festival, the exhibition concludes tomorrow. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor (BRITAIN)
The Sage
Window cleaners work atop The Sage music and arts centre in Gateshead, England, on Tuesday Sept. 25, 2007. The Sage Gateshead, is a landmark building on the banks of the River Tyne and is a major arts venue for England's northeast region. (AP Photo / Owen Humphreys, PA)
White Night
An artist from Saltimbanco Italiano Company performs during "White Night" celebrations in Bucharest September 22, 2007. The "White Night", an all-night cultural event, is celebrated in various cities all over the world, including Paris, London, Brussels, Rome, Madrid and Riga in Europe. REUTERS/Mihai Barbu (ROMANIA)
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Aquanauts
Italian scuba divers Debora Vissani (right) and Alessandro Brandetti are part of a team of six studying the effects of living underwater for a prolonged period of time. The "aquanauts" will spend two weeks on a platform anchored to the seabed off the Italian island of Ponza at a depth of about 15 meters. Reuters / Progetto Abissi
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Maximum Silence
Some 10,000 lights illuminate the installation "Maximum Silence" by Italian artist Giancarlo Neri in Rome's Circus Maximus.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Shockwave
The Shockwave Jet Truck, which reportedly goes from zero to 300 in 11 seconds, speeds down a runway beside a pyrotechnic wall of fire during the Naval Air Station Oceana Air Show in Virginia Beach, Va.
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Ramadan
Indonesian women attend a Ramadan night prayer, marking the start of the Muslim holy fasting month in Jakarta.
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Mini Ranch
The International Car Show in Frankfurt, Germany, does a Mini rip-off of the Cadillac Ranch art installation in Amarillo, Texas.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Tallest Sand Castle
Ed Jarrett collapses in exhaustion after completing his world-record 31.7-foot-high sand castle, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007, at the Point Sebago Resort in Casco, Maine. Jarrett spent the summer building a 'Castle to the Sun' to raise funds to benefit Camp Sunshine, a camp on Sebago Lake for children with life-threatening illnesses. Just under a million pounds of sand - forty dump truck loads - went into building the castle. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Ghost Dancers
'Ghost dancers' protest the APEC summit in Sydney, where riot police briefly scuffled with demonstrators. AP / Ed Wray
Suspended Ego
Suspended on skin hooks, Ego Komus of Holland suffers for his art at a World Body Art exhibition in Caracas. AP / Howard Yanes
China Biggest LED Screen
A Chinese woman walks underneath a giant screen displaying a ocean life at a new shopping district in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2007. The 2,296-feet long and 88-feet wide screen, named as 'Sky Screen' and clad entirely with LED modules, is claimed to be the biggest screen in Asia. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Panama Canal Expansion
A man holds balloons at a ceremony marking the beginning of the Panama Canal expansion project in Paraiso on the outskirts of Panama City, Monday, Sept. 3, 2007. Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal to mark the start of the waterway's biggest expansion project since it opened 93 years ago. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Homer erotic
A 180-foot-long Homer Simpson outlined in water-based biodegradable paint offers a doughnut to a 17th century fertility symbol carved in the hillside above Cerne Abbas, England. Unamused pagans plan to invoke "rain magic" to wash away the cartoon interloper. Beatwax (no photographer credited)
Monday, August 13, 2007
Speaking Disassembled English
Children play near an 8-foot-tall smiling Lego man that was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort. Think the missing word is "less"? Reuters / Marco de Swart
Monster Balloon
A hot air balloon in the shape of a monster comes in to land above Ashton Court Estate mansion during the International Balloon Fiesta near Bristol, England. Reuters / Luke MacGregor
Radar Dummy
Are leadfoots as dumb as crows? Belarussan traffic police near Minsk certainly hope so, since they're using mannequins dressed in police uniforms and equipped with radar guns to try and curb speeding. Reuters / Vasily Fedosenko
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Voodoo Purification
A voodoo pilgrim bathes with aromatic leaves near a waterfall in Saut d' Eau, Haiti. Thousands of believers come every year to pray and soak in water thought to have special powers. AP / Ariana Cubillos
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Saturday, August 4, 2007
Tallest Meets Smallest
In Baotou, Inner Mongolia, the world's tallest man, 7-foot-9 Bao Xishun, shakes with 2-foot-5 He Pingping, wearing the world's smallest tuxedo. Nineteen-year-old He is applying for the Guinness world record as the world's shortest man. AP / No photo credit given
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Poster
A pedestrian walks in front of a huge advertising poster in Berlin on July 10, 2007. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY)
Homer erotic
A 180-foot-long Homer Simpson outlined in water-based biodegradable paint offers a doughnut to a 17th century fertility symbol carved in the hillside above Cerne Abbas, England. Unamused pagans plan to invoke "rain magic" to wash away the cartoon interloper. Beatwax (no photographer credited)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Lomba Kaos detikINET
A t'shirt design for Lomba Kaos detikINET a detikINET t'shirt design competition by saylow.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Water Park
A little squirt named Oscar Valadez, 4, gets an eyeful at the Waco Water Park in Waco, Texas. Waco Tribune Herald / Jerry Larson
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Dress On Fire
This stunt professional safely torched herself for the 2007 Taurus World Stunt Awards in Los Angeles.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Seeing a Sonic Boom - How often?
Hearing a sonic boom is common, but what about seeing one?
When an object travels faster than the speed of sound, the density waves that we hear as sound cannot outrun the object itself and so accumulate as a cone behind it. When this cone of density waves passes, a listener hears all the sound at once as a sonic boom.
What happens visually though is still debated. It seems from the picture above that an unusual cloud forms. One theory is that a drop in air pressure at the plane causes water vapor to condense and form the cloud.
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ABOARD USS CONSTELLATION (July 7, 1999)-- Lieutenant Ron Candiloro, assigned to Fighter Squadron One Five One (VF-151), breaks the sound barrier in an F/A-18 "Hornet".
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Face Scanner
Jeska Stolle tests the three-dimensional (3D) face scanner used to register individual details of passengers at the SAC Siemens airport centre in Fuerth near Nuremberg on March 30, 2007. The airport centre opened in December 2005 and presents the latest technologies available from Siemens for all airports and official areas where interior security is required. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY)
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
China Soul
Dancers of the Chinese group China Soul perform during a private show at the Turker Inanoglu Show Centre in Istanbul. (AFP/Mustafa Ozer)
London Fashion Week
A model wears an outfit by Indian designer Manish Arora during his catwalk show at London Fashion Week in London, Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. The designers are showing their Autumn/ Winter 2007/8 collections. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Snow Angels
Nearly 9,000 people drop and flap their arms in the snow in unison during a world-record attempt for the most snow angels in Bismarck, N.D. The previous mark was 3,784. (AP / Will Kincaid)
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Eternal Embrace
A pair of human skeletons lie in an eternal embrace at an Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in this photo released February 6, 2007. (Enrico Pajello/Handout/Reuters)
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
Indian Star Turtles
A leader emerges from about 1,000 endangered Indian star turtles seized from a smuggler by Thai Customs in Bangkok. AP / Sakchai Lalit
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Jet to the Moon
A jet appears to detour to the the moon during a flight over Bremerton, Wash. The Kitsap Sun / Larry Steagall
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