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Walls Talking Dog - Strange Sausage Roll Adverts

I have been inundated with these strange ads ever since my arrival in London. Over time they have grown on me and I often find myself wishing that someone presented me with a miniature dog playing a tiny keyboard. In the meantime I have these two ads to keep the dream alive.

Sex Boxes To Be Introduced In Switzerland

Switzerland seems to be very open when it comes to sex, judging by this billboard at a train station. To keep prostitution from the streets, the Zurich municipal authorities have devised a plan to limit prostitutes to three zones, where booths will be set up for the prostitutes and their customers to erm *cough* do business. The city council are expecting these to be implemented and come into law on Jan. 1, 2012.

The council also mentioned that they were looking into ways to advise and inform the compliant prostitutes by direct communication, with new regulations to create a form of licenses required to 'prostitute' peacefully, if that is even a transitive verb!

The construction of 10 booths are planned in Altstetten as a kind of trial run, more will be built if it is successful. The newly established Altstetten prostitution zone will be monitored and maintained by social services, plans which are already on their way for the design and creation of the sex boxes are signaled to be ready for the spring of 2012.

Mysterious Water Ballooning Footage:Part 1

We found a mysterious tape lying on a street which had water ballooning *ucks scribbled on it, when we took it home we found what your about to see on it. This is the first part of it. The music is by the band Graffiti For Shepherds and the track they made is called "Ambient Batman". At one point a man that looks like Mister Bean peeks out a window....could it be Mister Bean?

Best Goal of Bundesliga 2011

Sami Allagui finished a move in style started by the superb movements of Lewis Holtby as the two Mainz players set Bayern Munich's balls on fire.

Nintendo 3DS June 2011 Firmware Update - Features

A sample of what is to come in the June 7th 3DS update. 

Quotes that Changed The World: Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living." 
— Socrates

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." 
— Socrates

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual" 
— Socrates

"And therefore if the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul; that is the first and essential thing. And the care of the soul, my dear youth, has to be effected by the use of certain charms, and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance is implanted in the soul, and where temperance comes and stays, there health is speedily imparted, not only to the head, but to the whole body." 
— Socrates 

Use Any Materials To Make A Guitar

Praxis released a new design for guitars as well as a philosophy for guitar creation too at Maker Faire 2011. The guitars they presented looked like pieces of art. They are made to be modular with swappable parts, you can make anything into a new guitar as in the video they released demonstrates wherein a chemistry book is used part of the body of the guitar.



For more details on these guitars and how to get your hands on one, go to their site at http://www.praxisguitars.com/

Ashen's Looks @ Open Pandora

For all you Linux heads out there here is a very interesting video in which Ashen's looks at the new open-source handheld touchscreen (emulator) computer thingamabob called Open Pandora. Definitely worth a watch and its really interesting seeing him test out all of the emulators available for the system. I need more money now!!! 

Waterspout Off The Coast Of Australia

Waterspouts are a naturally occurring phenomenon which occur when  an intense columnar vortex joins a cloud with a body of water, it can occur above lakes and all manners of seas and oceans. They are considered to be quite hazardous to ships or swims and any nautical adventurers are advised to stay well clear. Enjoy the video.