Dozens of people got naked on the streets of Madrid, Spain

Members of NGOs defending the rights of animals got naked on a huge piece of plastic and painted their bodies with red paint.

Dozens of people from defending animal rights organizations took part the last week in a protest in Puerta del Sol square in Madrid.

They wanted to send the message that is not elegant anymore to wear clothes from animal skin.

The protesters defied the cold weather and rain and stripped in the street on a huge piece of plastic.

According to Spanish newspaper “La razón”, they painted their bodies with red paint to symbolize the animals killed by the fashion industry.

Peta will save some gobblers this year

Some of the worlds ugliest dogs

To “assess” the look of these dogs, you don’t need a trained eye, but a strong heart. Especially for those who need to spend night in the house with them.

Michael Jackson’s crystal glove, sold for 350,000 U.S. dollars

The white crystals white glove that Michael Jackson wore when he first danced the “Moonwalk” was sold at auction for 350,000 dollars.

The glove is part of a 70 objects collection belonging to the megastar. In the same auction a jacket worn by Michael in the world tour “Bad” was sold with 225,000 dollars, and also a hat belonging to the megastar, that was bought for 22,000 dollars.

According to Reuters, the auction held in New York was attended by thousands of people worldwide.

Porsche 911 fully dressed in chocolate

With the occasion of the Christmas holidays, “Porsche Centrum Gelderland” in the town of Heteren (Netherlands) prepared a 911 4S model, only good to be eaten.

Thus, 175 kilograms of chocolate were melted, with whom master chocolatier January Blancke meticulously decorated the German super car. Off course, the dominant color is brown and the headlights and signal lamps are made from white chocolate.

The inflatable seat belt – a new safety device tested by Ford

Ford Company will equip his new model Ford Explorer 4×4, which will go into production in the U.S. next year, with a seat belt able to inflate like an airbag, improving the passengers safety in a collision.

On the car’s back seats, the regular seat belt, passing over the shoulder and chest, will be replaced by a cylindrical tube, inflatable, which can be inflated in just 40 milliseconds and disperses the impact shock on an area five times greater than a regular safety belt.

Specialists say that this device will reduce the risk of fracturing the ribs, some internal injuries and contusions of the children (they are very vulnerable in case of a collision), being useful also to the elders, with a more fragile skeleton.

Benito Mussolini’s brain is for sale on E-bay

Alessandra Mussolini, the famous dictator’s Benito Mussolini granddaughter, asked Italian police to conduct an official investigation after at an online auction on E-bay, was put on sale blood and brain samples from his grandfather.

Alessandra Mussolini, also a famous right-wing militant, told the press in the peninsula that she was outraged at hearing the news that parts of her grandfather’s body were put up for sale. The original price for the parts of brain was 15,000 euros, but until now, nobody has been able to buy them. E-Bay’s representatives said that on their website is banned the sale of human parts, and the auction was closed a few hours after it was posted. The dictator remains were stolen from the hospital’s autopsy room in Milan shortly after his killing, at the end of World War II.

“I was informed that pieces of my grandfather’s brain along with several other blood samples are for sale. Such things must end once and for all”, said the politician. After being shot along with his young mistress Claret Pettacci, Mussolini’s corpse was hanged by a group of antifascist demonstrators in a gas station on the outskirts of Milan. After autopsy, the corpses of the dictator were returned to the family and buried in 1957 in Predappio, his hometown. Soon, Predappio has become a pilgrimage destination for nostalgic fascism, and a place to sell trinkets, shirts, lighters and bottles of wine, all with the effigy of the famous dictator.

House on a rock (Rhode Island)

Clingstone, a 103 years old mansion in Rhode Island, arranged in retro style, is one of the most unusual homes around the world. It sits above the water, over a cliff that serves as foundation.

Henry Wood, the owner, manages the home with dedication and skill, enjoying family and friends help. The Rhode Island port is hosting the family’s boats and floating dock, sheltering them during winter, in exchange of using the house for one week during the summer.

Mr Wood, a 79 year old architect from Boston, bought the house, along with his former wife, Joan, in 1961, for 3,600 dollars. It stayed uninhabited for 20 years. Clingston was built by a distant cousin, JS Lovering Warton. He worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a three-story house with 23 rooms, to throne the rock of Narragansett Bay. The total cost of construction, completed in 1905, were $ 36,982. Today, the mansion is valued at 4 million dollars.

The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the “Clingstone working weekend”. Held each year around Memorial Day, gathers around 70 friends and Clingstone admirers to perform maintenance tasks, like cleaning the 65 windows of the house. Currently Clingstone holds ten bedrooms, each with a spectacular view and the dining room offers 14 seats.

The story of the virus: How was born the first computer virus?

If you wonder why your firewall software is becoming more expensive every year, maybe you would like to address some hard words to Dr. Fred Cohen. He is the man who 26 years ago, invented the first computer virus.

Although he’s responsible for the birth of the first digital virus his pioneering research led, also, to the protection of your computer against threats in the years that followed. Fred Cohen first discovered the virus in 1983, when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. A research team from a rival university just created, theoretically, on paper, the first Trojan – a program that allows a hacker to take control of another computer – and Cohen, analyzing the algorithm thought that the malicious program could be conditioned to self-replicate.

“I was sitting in class with my students and I realized that if the Trojan will copy into other programs, then all that will be infected and that everyone that will run it will lead to the proliferation of malicious program”, said Cohen. The teacher discussed this idea with Dr. Len Adleman, another computer security expert at California University.

The information spread and could not be controlled, so that viruses have proliferated, multiplying and improving year by year. Today, Dr. Cohen confesses worried that, since the early 1990s, wasn’t done a serious research in the field of viruses. “Viruses are a business hack who bring billions of dollars. No one is interested to invest in serious research, to truly eradicate. Although I believe that it is possible. However, today, all hackers and talented computer programmers are employed by large IT companies whose interest is to protect computers against the latest viruses, not against the one to come, says Fred Cohen.

Fred Cohen is one of the leading computer security experts worldwide. He discovered the first virus, has formed the first antivirus programs and developed a unique theory which says that there are also positive viruses. To demonstrate it, he elaborated a positive virus – it spreads infecting executable files from all computers visited. But, does not destroy them, not in any way disturbs an operation, it only does it … much smaller in size. Based on this positive virus were also invented famous archiving software compression methods used by digital pirates in the second half of the ’90s.

Raccoons, some of the funniest animals out there

Some consider them the biggest pests but, we don’t have to overlook the fact that the man was the first that entered within the cute’s mammals habitat. As the photos below demonstrates, however, raccoons are far from the violent thieves image that people have created over time about them. We are sure that these photos will bring a smile on your face.

The amazing art of dirty windows

This may sound trivial, but it happens. The incredible works of art you can see in these photographs belongs to Scott Wade, a man who has demonstrated, along with many others, that you can transform even the most unusably thing (like dust on a dirty car window) into something someone could call art.

Scott Wade is a talented graphic artist from Wimberley, Texas, who loves a bit of dirt on his hands. He often draws various images on his wife’s car, using only his hands, dust and some brushes. From Mona Lisa to a portrait of Albert Einstein, Wade has created a series of works of art that often froze traffic.

1,500,000,000 birds caught in a single frame

The clip below is part of a BBC production called “Planet Earth”, and proved downright shocking when presented to the public the image of 1 billion and a half birds in a single frame.

Today’s incredible image: Cloudy over Brazil

On October 6, 2009, the crew of the twentieth expeditions on board of the International Space Station (ISS) captured this impressive image of stormy weather over Brazil.

The Nikon D2Xs Digital Camera, captured a huge amount of visual details, as part of the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment, in progress. Cumulusnimbus Clouds in various stages of development can be observed in the unstable air from the tropics, causing electrical storm. Circular patterns produced by storms from the massive cloud structure are obvious, while, thanks to the Sun’s reflaction, the 3 380 km long trail of the Madeira river, in the Amazon basin, can be easily observed.

A snake of colossal size was caught in a forest in China

The picture of the largest snake ever captured, quickly made it around the world after a group of Chinese workers have posted the picture with the huge creatures on the internet. The same photo appeared initially on the first page of the People’s Daily newspaper, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China.

Witnesses say the gigantic boa is only one of the two found in a forest during works on a new road that had to cross the Guping town surroundings, in Jiangxi Province.

“During the excavations, one of the workers noticed a blood stain of considerable size, and after we kept digging, we discovered a dying snake of incredible size. At the same time, another giant boa snake appeared out of nowhere with his mouth wide open. I can only say to the driver remained paralyzed by fear, while his colleagues have fled to save their lives. When they returned, the driver of the excavator could not even stand up”, quoted from the original article.

More, the unfortunate driver was so shocked that he suffered a heart attack and died on way to hospital.

The dead snake measures almost 17 feet long and weighs about 300 kilograms. Experts biologists say such a monster must have been at least 140 years old.

Curious is that, shortly after Chinese officials agreed to publish the news, they denied their veracity, claiming that everything is a setup and that giant snakes were never before seen around town Guiping.

and the new tallest man in the world is…

Kösen Sultan, a former basketball player from Turkey, was recorded as the highest man in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.

At 26 years old, Kösen is 2 meters 46 centimeters and 5 mm and also owns the record for the largest hands – 27.5 cm, and the biggest feet – 36.5 cm. He grew up as a normal child until the age of 10, when, due to a pituitary gland disorder, his body began to develop at highly accelerated rate.

During the 2010 London edition of Guinness Book presentation, Sultan Kösen said he hopes that his recently gained fame to bring him more luck with the ladies attention. Because of his unusual stature, women have always feared it, but now he hopes to finally find his soul mate and marry.

Former owner of the record for highest man, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, apparently meassured with 2.57 meters high, refused to formally measure his height, saying that fame has brought him only trouble and he needs peace and quiet.

The longest human domino

Hundreds of children and parents have found an excuse not to go to school or work, with the ocassion of World Day of Book of Records – day when all over the world recordman are trying to beat new… records.

One of the most bizarre records at this year’s edition was the longest human domino – 244 children from São Lourenço International School in Portugal have succeeded this performance on the football stadium in Faro Algarve. The previous record was held by an 121 man domino.

Leaves – one of the world’s most eficient organic fuels

A British man had the idea to use the great quantity of fallen leaves in autumn to make them “logs” for fire.

One million tonnes of leaves fall every year in the UK, and Peter Morrison, aged 45 years, being sick of collecting the leaves, each year, from his yard in Birmingham, thought to turn them into a “green” fuel to replace wood.

He started by creating a tablet the size of a coin, which, lited, generated enough heat to boil a liter of water.

Currently, a company called Biofuels International Limited (BIFL) produces cylindrical leaves “logs” – called Leaf Log – with a length of 28 cm, which are already in British shops and are used as fuel in homes.

The “Leaf Logs” ignite easily and burn very efficiently, providing 28,000 kilojoules (the best coal give approx. 29,000 kilojoules)

In Thailand, children’s favorite pet is…a giant constrictor snake

In almost every corner of the world, exposing a children in a cage next to a giant constrictor snake might seem crazy, and the police should immediately arrest the unconsciously parents. This is not the case in Thailand, where the parents and grandparents play along with children in the cage of one of the biggest snakes in captivity. I don’t know what those children think about the initiative but, both them and the snake doesn’t seem to dislike the mutual company.

Who holds the world record of records?

Probably everyone would be more than happy to be the holder of one Guinness record. It’s not the case for Ashrita Furman, the man who holds more Guinness World Records than anyone else on the planet.

Ashrita Furman, aged 54, has spent the last 30 years of his life trying – and succeeding – to beat records. At the peak of his career, Furman held not less than 100 records at once and even today is not doing too bad, being the author of 98 global performance unmatched by someone else.

Ashram was the holder of 236 world records in his career and his nearest competitor in this mater has not owned more than 20. It all began when Furman was a child and browse thru the Book of Records. He began to dream that one day he will also appear on those pages, breaking a record.

He achieved his dream in 1979, setting a new world record executing 27,000 ” stellar jumps ” (with hands and feet spread in the air), in New York. Since then, he never stopped. Among his records are included pushing a car over a distance of 27 kilometers for 24 hours, translating and reciting a poem in 111 languages, all throughout the day, attending a 130 kilometers walk with a glass of milk on his forehead, and:

Splicing 27 apples in the air, with a katana, in 60 seconds

Keeping balance on a board above a cylinder

Racing a yak, with his feet stuck in a bag, in Mongolia

Most grapes caught with his mouth in one minute, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The longest time spent in balance on a “Swiss ball” at Stonehenge

The highest number of “pogo stick” jumps in Cambodgia

Fastest completion of a mile, turning a circle around the waist, in Uluru, Australia

Keeping in balance the longest pole on his chin in Aspendos, Turkey

Currently, Ashrita Furman is trying to beat the record for the fastest crossing of a mile, wearing diving fins.

The Cherrapunji living bridges

Although it sounds like a metaphor, it’s not. The bridges with roots in Cherrapunji, India, are indeed alive. Unlike most bridges from around the world, the ones here are grown and not built.

Known as the most humid place on Earth, Cherrapunhi is the home of some of the most amazing plants. One of them is the elastic Ficus, a variety of rubber tree, which is developing a set of secondary roots at the soil surface. War-Khasis, a local tribe, has seen this plant potential.

DRAWING arteries with a type of acorns emptied of content, the people of this tribe are able to target the roots of the tree by their own choice. When they cross a river, the plants are allowed to return to the ground and, over time, a solid bridge is formed. It takes between 10 and 15 years to clot such a formation, becoming more powerful from year to year and lasting even centuries.

Johannesburg’s naked record !

They walked almost naked on the streets of South African capital, Johannesburg, not forced by the heat outside, but to set a new record in the swimsuits parade chapter.

And the organizers also had another purpose: to draw attention to the threat represented by breast cancer.

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form met at Caucasian and Asian women. Disease risk increases with age, but chances of survival increase if the disease is diagnosed in time.

1 in every 20 students believe that Hitler was the German team football coach

More, according to a survey, one in six British students think that Auschwitz is a theme park of the Second World War.

The symbol of Remembrance Day should be represented, for 12% of students surveyed, not by red poppies, but by the golden arches of a fast food company and 40% of students do not know that it is celebrated on November 11.

A quarter of the children said that the nuclear bomb was launched over the City of Pearl Harbor, and one of 20 believed that the Holocaust was the festivities at the end of the war.

Surprising results are getting worse: half of the children surveyed knew that “D Day” was representing the landing in Normandy, while one quarter believing that it is a British holiday – “Dooms Day”.

The study was conducted on a sample of 2,000 children whit ages between 9 and 15 years, and included questions about both world wars.

The residents of a town in Colorado voted for the legalization of marijuana

The law who approved the consumption of marijuana was voted by 72% of the inhabitants of a city in Colorado, USA.

Although they voted the legalization of marijuana use, the law wasn’t made official, so is still illegal. This was a symbolic gesture to determine the authorities to no longer put behind bars the marijuana consumers.

Pessimists have better memory

A study conducted by Professor Joseph Forgas, from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, proved that pessimists are less gullible and they can better judge other people. Also, people in a bad mood or who think negatively have a better memory, because they are more regardful to what surrounds them, rather than happier people, whom, being more absent-minded, don’t really see what is happening around them. The survey also showed how sad people are more able to support a plea in writing, with reasons.

China is hosting the 2010 Robot Olympiad !

In an effort to produce as many robots with specific human qualities (flexibility in movement and fluency), China organizes next year the “Robots Olympics”, a 16 trials event.

To enter the competition, robots must have two arms and two legs, wheels being prohibited.

The organizers expect more than 100 universities throughout the world to send their competitors.

The Leipzig Bold Bears

At first, the two bears have scared the crap out of the visitors of a zoo in Leipzig, Germany, after they’ve suffered a complete hair loss. The poor animals left with only a few tufts of hair on their bodyes.

Dolores and Lolita, 15 and 11 years old, had to thicken their fur, now that the winter approaches.

Instead they became the attraction of the zoo by getting bold, and the Germans flock to see them.

The zoo officials believe the bears, originating in South America are not in danger even if their bodies began to develop inflammations and irritations.

Now they sent letters to other zoos in the world, hoping to have more knowledge about such cases.

Amazing smoke images

As spectacular as it is, this new art form, the smoke art is an ephemeral art, which can only bee seen with the help of photography. Such images can be obtained only overlaying thousands of photos of smoke into one photo. However, the results are awesome. In front of such creations, words are in vain …

The first space tourists can pack for 2012

Despite criticism about investment financing and completion deadline, the company Galactic Suite is determined to host the first guests of their space hotel in just three years.

A three nights stay at the Galactic hotel will cost 3 million euros, the price including an 8 weeks training on a tropical island.

During their stay in the orbital hotel, visitors can see the sunrise for 15 times and will make a full circle of the Earth every 80 minutes.

To move around, tourists will wear suits from a special material (Velcro), which will allow them to roam through the hotel clinging to the walls, like Spiderman.

The President of the company, based in Barcelona, Spain, said that an anonymous billionaire, with a passion for space exploration, has donated $ 3 billion to finance the project.

Over 200 people have already expressed the interest to spend a weekend in space – at the Galactic Suite Space Resort – and at least 40 people have already made reservations.

Chinese child auctioned online

Angry that they didn’t had a boy, a Chinese couple auctioned their daughter on the Internet, setting an initial price of 1 yuan (equivalent to 15 cents).

The announcement was posted on one of the most important auction sites in China, taobao.com, by the child’s uncle, two weeks ago.

He assured everyone that the baby is perfectly healthy and vigorous, and to convince the potential buyers he also published two pictures, one with the baby immediately after birth, in April 2008, the other – at one year old.

“The child has very pretty large eyes and I hope that everyone will be attracted to her”, he wrote in the message.

The man, original from the city of Zhangsu (Jiangxi Province) identified by the surname Hu, said that the auction start price is one yuan, and delivery charges will be borne by the sender.

A few days after posting, the site administrator removed the ad. Investigated by the authorities, Hu explained that his only intention was to give the unwanted children up for adoption.

The man with the most piercings in the world

We would have expected that the owner of such a record to be a rebel punker, barely out of puberty. Nothing more false. The man who was appointed in 2010 edition of the Guinness Book of Records is a 78 years old man who was general manager of Barclays bank for 30 years.

The eccentric pensioner was approved by the Guinness World Book of Records, after a committee of experts has counted all 241 piercings, of which no less than 150 are on his face and neck. In order to match all the metals which puncture his skin, John Lynch filled his body with tattoos, his favorite being a Marilyn Monroe tattoo, who covers most of his bust.

Initially, Lynch didn’t qualified for the 2010 edition of the Records Book, having 5 piercings less than the former owner of the record, but when he heard this, he added 20 more, to be sure he doesn’t miss it.

Ironically, Lynch didn’t discovered his passion for body art, piercings and tattoos until he was 40 years old, when – after losing a bet – made his first piercing. Since then, every year has added a few, to become a true local celebrity in the town of Apsely, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, where locals have named him Prince Albert.