An entire town for millionaires is to be built on the outskirts of Moscow. It will be almost […]

Patrick O’Brian‘s take on Japanese Boy. Via transbuddha. For the readers who understand french, a video from the […]

Shoppers are to be given bells to attach to purses and handbags in a bid to deter thieves […]

Asahi Breweries will launch in Japan this winter a beer that changes taste over time as the fermentation […]

My boyfriend’s favourite Japanese retailer, Muji, is selling Earthquake emergency packs, complete with gloves, slippers, candle, etc. Via […]

The pictures speak for themselves (Konomi is too busy to translate it for me anyway) Via What’s that!?, […]

When I was a kid and too young to complain, my mum cooked us one of her specialities, […]

The Japanese banking system has been exceptionally slow to introduce 24-hour ATMs, and still imposes banking charges on […]

The Tapir Gallery. Includes a Tapir online game and tapir cookies. Via One Man Safari.

Vores Øl (Our Beer) is the world’s first open source beer. Created by “Vores Øl Group”, a group […]

Bruce Lee wannabees. Via Crazy Japan.

I won’t watch yakuza movies with the same eyes again… Apparently, Tokyo is facing a rapid increase in […]

Spring collection of Japan Tobacco’s “smoking manners” campaign. More in Tokyotimes. Winter posters.

Can somebody give an explanation for these surreal knit bricks spotted in Norwich? Related: the foam brick.

Summit-Quinphos, an agricultural company in New Zealand worried at the amount of nitrogen leaching from pasture, has invented […]

The Daf Yomi is a seven-and-a-half-year cycle of Talmud learning. Participants study a page a day of this […]

The Marine Corps Intelligence Activity has over the past two years distributed thousands of Iraq Culture Smart Cards […]

A 1930s KGB spy’s guide to London has been discovered in a bundle of MI5 files released to […]

Japanese toy makers Tomy (the ones behind the Flip-Flap) and Takara have produced bean plants which sprout to […]

Fancy a $3,250 Canadian trip to the edge of the Arctic, sleeping five nights in an igloo that […]

Two couples (and up to 30 accomplices) have been charged in a price-switching scheme that allegedly defrauded Wal-Mart […]

Kent Norman, a cognitive psychologist at the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of […]

Mathematicians Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf, of Bristol University have represented the Lorenz equations with 25,511 crochet stitches. […]

Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London has a unique and especially grotesque interpretation of the nativity scene. Football […]

The “World Beard and Moustache Championships” will be held in Berlin, on Saturday, October 1, 2005. Long way […]

San Jose police department are using a new mobile dispatch system that includes a touch-screen computer based on […]

Following last year’s success of the Turkey & Gravy Soda, Seattle-based company Jones Soda hopes that their brand […]

Farmers in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh are spraying Pepsi and Coca-Cola to protect their rice plantations […]

From sundown Friday to sundown Saturday, Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, write, and drive which means no […]

While the European Commission has launched a shock campaign against tobacco for those who are more motivated by […]

South Africa inventor Noel Mey has created a device that can detect alcohol on a driver’s breath. The […]

Los Angeles-based company Allerca is now taking reservations (costs $3,500!) for the world’s first genetically engineered hypoallergenic cats. […]

British supermarket chain Asda has warned its staff to be extra vigilant in spotting youths buying eggs, traditionally […]

When Sicilians came to work in Turin for the FIAT industry forty years ago, they were given lectures […]

Speed cameras are now so widely-used on Britain’s roads that they are in danger of becoming a hazard […]