Want to experience living like a hamster? A hotel in France gives you the chance to live like a domestic rodent – you’ll be able to eat grain, run in a giant wheel and sleep on hay.
This “Hamster Villa” is located in the town of Nantes and is run by a company which rents out [...]

All book tours are inherently bad for the environment, but Sarah Palin’s may be the worst.
Sarah Palin’s tour bus, which covered more than 3,000 road miles during the book tour’s first week alone, has been missing one essential thing: Sarah Palin. Some good old-fashioned muckraking by Joe McGinness at the Daily Beast has revealed that [...]

Starting December 1st, 2009 two of the major players in Outdoor PR will join forces to become one of the largest voices representing the outdoor industry with regards to public relations. At Wend, we’re stoked, as both of these firms have been great to work with, and Kristin Carpenter-Ogden, CEO of the newly [...]

Yeah, the battle between skiers (two plankers) and snowboarders (knuckle-draggers) is epic, but not as epic as surfers and boogie boarders. Maybe this will help Boogers get respect?

Swiss voters gave the world a bit of a surprise Sunday when they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban prohibiting minarets on mosques, a move that puts Switzerland on the front lines of European backlash against a growing Muslim population.
From the Associated Press:
The sponsors of the initiative provoked complaints of bias from local officials and human-rights [...]

A British couple vacationing in Thailand fled the country after becoming victims of a Clockwork Orange-style sex attack perpetrated by a group the couple believes preys on foreign tourists. The couple says their attackers, which have yet to be apprehended, were French and English.
According to a disturbing article in the Mail, the professional couple (who [...]

Sympathetic Resonance from Joshua Kirsch on Vimeo.
“Sympathetic Resonance”
2009 dimensions vary african padauk, birch veneer plywood, aluminum, yarn mallets, rotary solenoids, brass, wires, magnets, boot lace, electronic components.
Joshua Kirsch is a designer, artist and arguably a musician. Like the Natural Sounds blog for last weeks Music Monday, this is another innovative approach to making sounds. This [...]

As the last day of Thanksgiving weekend, it’s fairly likely that thousands of people are still racing around malls of America, searching for holiday gifts and savings galore. In light of that, we think  it’s fitting to present the trailer for this perfectly snarky documentary, “What Would Jesus Buy?” Check it out for yourself.

It’s the Sunday after Thanksgiving (at least here in the U.S.) and you are feeling guilty. You ate too much. You drank too much and fought with your family again. Well, the time has come to stop wallowing in regret and start preparing yourself for the chaos of the rest of the holiday season. And [...]

This week we are paying homage to the gluttony of Thanksgiving by sharing photos of Foods ‘Round the World.
If you like our ‘Round the World series, you might enjoy some of our previous themes: silhouettes, outhouses, cemeteries and donkeys.
Click on the thumbnails to view the images at a larger size. If you’d like to see [...]