Hard core KFC fans have come up with the perfect way to pay homage to their favorite fast food brand – by wearing gold plated KFC bones as jewelry. The idea sounds rather primitive, but I suppose the gold plating does reduce the barbaric effect to some extent. ‘Kentucky Fried Chicken Bone Gold Necklaces’, are made of only two ingredients – real KFC bones and real 14 karat gold. They come in two sizes – small and large. The necklaces are the brainchild of Kentucky for Kentucky, a group of people

Finally, we have an engineer who’s putting his degree to proper use! 27-year-old Londoner Alex Bygrave has used all his technical know-how to come up with the ultimate invention – an awesome Gatling water gun. Believed to be the world’s most sophisticated Gatling-style weapon of its kind, the gun features a 10-liter water tank, six barrels and a 40-foot firing range.

Alex spent 50 hours designing and building the pistol from scratch, making use of 55 separate parts made of everyday objects. “I had to first break down the mechanics of how the Gatling gun worked, and then build it up using a mix of all sorts of components,” he said.

The VideoLan project was originally started as an academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client" when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project. But since VLC is no longer merely a client, that initialism no longer applies.

It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network. Originally developed by students at the École Centrale Paris, it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization.

Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under GNU General Public License on 1 February 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the École Centrale Paris. The functionality of the server program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated. The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure.

The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association. The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by Richard Øiestad.

Dogs are amazing creatures and Lilica, a Brazilian stray, is a perfect example of that. She lives in a junkyard, hangs out with a motley crew, and she makes sure her friends never go hungry. Every night, Lilica walks four miles in the dark, braving the rush hour traffic, just to bring food back to the other animals in her ‘family’ – a dog, a cat, a few chickens and a mule. Lilica was abandoned at a junkyard in San Carlos, Brazil, when she was just a puppy. Neile Vaina Antonio, the junkyard caret

The 2013 Global Drugs Survey reported that drug dealing on the internet was on the rise. This may have been shocking news to a lot of people, but the truth is that marijuana was the very first thing ever to have been sold and bought on the internet. The first bag of this "herb" was sold online over 40 years ago!

In the early 1970s, Stanford students at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory engaged in a drug deal with their counterparts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using Arpanet accounts. They used the network to arrange the purchase of undetermined amounts of marijuana.

All types of drugs—legal and illegal—have since been sold on the internet. In 2012, researchers found 73 new types of drugs being sold by about 700 websites in Europe. In the 60s, 70s and 80s the drug menu mainly consisted of marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines. Today the list is mind-blowing and many of those are even legal.

Unfortunately, many of the new drugs sold on the internet today are untested, rare compounds of unknown purity that are sold by unscrupulous drug dealers. These people have no concern for the well-being of their customers. As these compounds were never designed to be drugs, they can lead to sickness, high blood-pressure, and kidney failure.

Drug sales on the internet are accelerating and millions of drug deals are taking place each year. It seems the drug trade has reached an all time "high."

Over the life of your printer, you’ll probably pay more than 500% of the total price of the printer itself on ink refill cartridges. At $30, a 42ml cartridge of black printer ink comes out to 71 cents per ml. On the other hand, the Red Cross charges $200 for 500 ml of blood, which comes out to about 40 cents per ml.

Jacobins aren’t your average, everyday pigeons that flock on your terrace and mess it up with droppings. Take one look at them and you’ll know they are a cut above the rest. How can they not be, with a royal hood of feathers that covers them from the neck up, almost entirely hiding their pretty little heads. I like to think of them as pigeons-in-parkas, which is really high fashion as far as birds are concerned.

Jacobins are one of the oldest domestic pigeon breeds in the world – an excellent exhibition breed with relatively unknown origins. Some believe that that the original breed came from India, while others think they’re natives of Cyprus. They arrived in Europe around the 16th century, where they were put through four stages of development, by breeders, until they evolved into their current state.

Although they have been bred for centuries, Jacobin pigeons have undergone remarkable changes in the past 80 years. They started off rather small, which was popular back in the day. But the current breed of Jacobins are slender and of medium size, with long flight feathers, long legs and slim tails. The most remarkable feature, the ‘rosette’, makes up the hood that completely covers the top and sides of their tiny head. In fact, the bird’s face is only visible from the front. The bigger the hood, the higher the quality of the specimen. And they always maintain an upright posture, adding to their ‘royal airs’.

A small town in Spain has come up with a new way of dealing with dog waste – a canine public toilet. Located along a busy thoroughfare in El Vendrell, northeastern Spain, the stainless steel contraption consists of two sections placed side by side – a doggy potty and a doggy urinal.

The potty is a raised steel platform with a covered hole. Dog owners need to lift the lid for their pets to defecate, and later press a handle to flush. Jets of water are released, which carry the excrement through underground pipes into the sewer system. Right next to the potty is the urinal – also a raised platform with small holes over which dogs can squat. The public toilet is the brainchild of dog-lover Enric Girona, who has spent over ten years observing and photographing dogs. Through his work, he recognized the need for a toilet for dogs, so he set about creating one himself. “Over the years, I’ve seen that if you train and raise dogs well, these animals can be just like humans,” he explained.

Girona invented several variants of the toilet, modifying each one as he learned more and more about dog behavior. The present version of the urinal, for example, doesn’t clean itself perfectly when flushing, because need to pick the odor so they are lured to the toilet. He also had the location in mind while designing these toilets, so they’d naturally blend into surroundings like parks and other public places. “You can’t have something that clashes with the setting,” he pointed out. “The design was done with the concept of being attractive.”

These rocks live on the coast of Peru and Chile. Two siphons connect the organisms to the surrounding ocean, where one is used to exhale and the other to inhale. They feed on sea water by inhaling and filtering out all edible microalgae by use of a moving layer of mucus found in its enlarged pharynx. The other siphon is then used to exhale the water out. The Pharynx acts as the organism’s mouth and is connected to its digestive tract.

The Pyura chilensis contains clear blood and high quantities of vanadium, a rare and mysterious element. The vanadium is 10 million times more in the creature than in sea water. How they are able to accumulate high quantities of vanadium and what part it plays in the creature’s development is not yet known.

These rocks belong to the Ascidiacea non-moving class of sac-like invertebrate marine filter feeders, known in other words as sea squirts. Since they cannot move around in search of mates, the Pyura chilensis are hermaphroditic. They are born male but over time grow female organs. Breeding involves the unique and fascinating release of both sperms and eggs into a fertile cloud, where they meet to form off springs that are tiny and tadpole-like. These eventually settle on rocks nearby and grow into adult form.

The Pyura chilensis belongs to the Tunicata Subphylum class due to the thick “Tunics” made of Tunicin that cover it. These help them blend into the surroundings. The Tunicin is a hard matrix of molecules that assist the creatures attach themselves on to hard surfaces. An epidermis and muscular band lines the insides of the tunics. Seeing one of these creatures sliced in half is the most bizarre thing ever because inside these Tunics is a tissue like mass that is bright red and that will leave you flabbergasted.

The raw insides of this alien-like organism are a delicacy and are used as ingredients for stews or eaten in their raw form. Locals describe them as having a “bitter” and “soapy” taste that has a “weird iodine flavor”. For many years, the Chilean and Peruvian locals have been fishing the Pyura chilensis for commercial use.

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Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, or the Million Beer Bottle Temple as it’s affectionately known is situated within Khun Han in Thailand. The project was dreamed up way back in 1984 when the monks began what was to become a massive collection of green Heineken bottles, and brown Chang bottles - a local brew.