Une équipe de Berkerley vient de réaliser une circoncision au laser sur … Une mouche!
Quelle idée étrange de s’attaquer au pénis et non au derrière des coléoptères comme d’habitude! Mais apparemment pas uniquement pour le plaisir mais pour lutter contre… Le VIH! Apparemment, la circoncision "protège" un peu du sida!
1. Bust Up Gum. Le bonbon faisant pousser la poitrine (Are you a woman? Unhappy with your breast size? Well, the makers of Bust Up Gum claim chewing their gum can make your breasts fuller and firmer. They also claim the gum can improve the look of your hair and nails.)
2. Yuzu Kit Kat. Le Kita kat "citron"-piment qui arrache… (the Kit Kat bar)
3. No Time Gum. Le chwing gum pour se laver les dents.
4. Suplitol Tongkat Ali Gum for Men. Le même que pour la poitrine mais pour les hommes…
5. Echizen Kurage candy. Le bonbon à la méduse et caramel.
6. Every Burger. Le bonbon au chocolat en forme de hamburger…
7. Ika. Après la méduse, le bonbon au poulpe et au chocolat…
8. Okonomiyaki Drops. Le bonbon "pot-au-feu"…
9. Grilled Lamb caramels. Les caramels au mouton…
10. Pepperfruits. Le bonbon au fruits et au poivre…
11. Takoyaki Drops. LE bonbon poulpe mayonnaise…
12. Cake Soda. Le soda goût gâteau…
13. Chocolate Beer. La bière au chocolat…
14. Green Tea Milk Kit Kats. Encore des Kit Kat au thé vert cette fois… (Kit Kat bar.)
19. Coffee chewing gum. Le chewing gum goût café (je ne comprend pas comment il n’est pas encore arrivé en Europe)
20. Deviled egg candy. Le bonbon en forme d’œuf brouillé
Les 10 posts les plus bizarres de Weird Asian news pour l’année 2009, un peu trash, un poil gore… Bizarre:
2009 was a fun year, filled with a lot of really strange and interesting stories from all over Asia. As we anticipate bring you another year of Weird Asia News, we take a moment to highlight our Top 10 Weirdest Asian News Stories from 2009.
1. Angry Teacher Rips Student’s Cheek Off
On December 18th, 2008, a 10 year-old 5th grader named Chao Qun Zheng went to his elementary school in HeNan, China.
When his teacher, Guo, found out that young Zheng had not completed his homework, she flipped out.
“She was very angry at the time,” he said. “She ripped and twisted my cheeks with both her hands and then she lifted me off the ground.”
The teacher held the boy up until one of his cheeks actually ripped off and the boy was bleeding profusely.
Known as Mitsukurina Owstoni, the goblin shark is truly an odd and lonely creature. Identified mainly by the unusual shape of its head, or snout, which is much longer than other sharks, and also its odd colored pink skin.
The weirdest and coolest aspect of this unusual shark is its retractable jaw, which resembles that nasty critter Sigourney Weaver zonked out of the spacecraft in that old horror classic, Alien. It really seems to leap out of its mouth in order to catch its unsuspecting prey, which include: squid, crabs and fish.
3. Indian Girl Marries Dog In Bizarre Ritual
A flaming indication that India remains a land of enduring superstition, especially in rural areas where literacy is practically non-existent, here is a most unusual news item about a young girl who was forced to marry a dog in order to ward off “evil spirits.”
In India’s eastern Jharkhand, locals in the Munda Dhanda village have ‘married off’ one of its children to a stray dog because they believed her family was endangered by a malevolent spirit that could be assuaged in no other way.
4. Child Born with Second Penis in the Middle of His Back
Fetus in Fetu (FIF) is a rare and very mysterious medical condition that is said to have occurred (or at least is recorded to have occurred) less than ninety times throughout medical history.
For the little boy born in Tianjin’s Children Hospital in China, the second penis in the middle of his tiny back is a medical first and even weirder than some other instances of this highly unusual phenomenon.
5. Woman Delivers ‘Stone Baby’ After 60 Year Pregnancy
In a bizarre turn of events straight out of Mr. Ripley’s personal files, comes this true story of a 92-year-old woman who delivered a child (albeit not a live baby) she had been carrying for over half a century! (Long pregnancies are one thing, but THAT is ridiculous!)
Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.
6. The Goonch: Vicious Human-Eating Mutant Catfish
The Great Kali is a river that flows along the India-Nepal border. Ordinarily a rather serene location, a mutant, vicious catfish has been terrorizing natives who fear swimming and meeting up with the goonch who eats people (not to be confused with the grinch who ate Christmas).
This creature, a giant catfish, looks like a reject from a horror movie, and is all the more disturbing because it is dangerous and very, very real!
Scientists fear that the fish, originally a bottom feeder scavenger, began eating humans after developing a taste for flesh from feeding on burnt corpses dumped into the river after funerals.
7. Customer Beaten to Death by Walmart Employees
At Walmart, theft is not tolerated. At least not at the Walmart in Jingdezhen, China, where a customer died at the hands of Walmart employees who suspected her of stealing.
It started out when one of the Walmart employees suspected a female customer of theft. The customer was then under surveillance for a few minutes before being approached by the staff.
The Walmart employee requested to search the customer’s bag and the female customer refused to hand it over, stating that it was a violation of her privacy.
8. Creepy, Crazy, and Strange Japanese Toys
While Asia has its share of weird and unusual toys, Japan takes the lead in inventing the truly bizarre items. From ‘Road Kill Cat’ to a legless woman, here are some of creepy toys that are too weird, even for Halloween.
This one is for folks who downplay the usefulness of the ‘Cat went to Aunt’s farm’ cover story for a pet’s death. And, while it might be argued that this is a odd collectible aimed at a niche adult audience, the cartoon image of a child’s face is a disturbing giveaway about the target audience.
9. Man Carves Tunnel for 14 Years to Park Near House
A man in India has proved that nothing’s impossible, not when you have the willpower and the right equipment. Frustrated with a hilly range that blocked easy access to his home, Ramchandra Das, a villager from Kewati, eastern Bihar, slugged away at the rocky mountain for 14 years creating a small tunnel.
The tunnel, measuring 10 m in length and 4 m width, finally enabled Das to park his truck by his home.
Prior to this, there was no convenient way for him to drive his vehicle to his house.
10. Asia’s Top 10 Most Unique Deformities
Nobody has it easy these days, not even actors and actresses. The one thing that keeps us all trudging along though is hope, whether that hope entails faith in a returning Messiah, dreams of fame or fortune, or just the anticipation of a hot meal at the local homeless shelter.
Sometimes though, we become so enamored with our own burdens that we lose sight of hope. Perhaps the following stories of brave, albeit unfortunate souls will help relieve these burdens by reminding us that things could always be far worse.
The Horny Grandma
Granny Zhao — as she is formerly known — is an elderly lady from Zhanjiang who sports her own horn. According to her family, the horn appeared approximately 3 years ago as just a tiny mole; but unlike a mole, it never stopped growing.wing.
Un désœuvré motivé a créé un historique visuel des couleurs des crayons crayola à travers les âge, des 8 couleurs du début aux 120 d’aujourd’hui. ça donne ça :
Vous voulez vous sentir vieux? (Oui je sais c’est post traumatique au passage de la trentaine…) Une étude américaine d’envergure montre que les jeunes (8-18 ans) passent beaucoup de temps à ingérer/gérer des médias. Avec un recul étonnant de la télé et une augmentation du… multitasking! A priori un ado "consomme" actuellement 11h de média dans 7h30 de temps par jour. (cela inclu les média écrans, audios, ou mobiles). Et dire qu’étant jeune c’était "seulement" pas loin de 3h de télé par jour.
Tout est dans le titre…
Un bon jeu de psychopathe : First-Person Tetris
Le gouvernement chinois a tenté de pirater google en décembre dernier pour identifier des dissidents au régime…
Les années 90 ont transformé nos vies avec l’apparition du Web et du courriel.
Les années 2000 l’ont fait à nouveau avec l’apparition des réseaux sociaux.
À mon avis, les années 2010 vont complètement changer la façon dont nous consommons l’information, notamment grâce au papiel (papier électronique).
Comme je le disais ici et ici, le papiel est sur le point de connaître les conditions de rupture technologiques qui vont rendre le papier hors de prix (et complètement dépassé).
Ça, c’est pour l’aspect technologique. Ce que peu de gens comprennent, c’est que ce nouveau support va devenir un nouveau média en soi.
Quand la télé est arrivée dans les foyers, les émissions de l’époque n’étaient que du contenu radio et des pièces de théâtre mis à l’écran. Avec le temps, les artisans de la télé ont appris à utiliser ce nouveau média et, petit à petit, à exploiter son potentiel.
Dans ce billet, je propose une vidéo qui donne un aperçu de ce à quoi pourra ressembler le contenu sur du papiel. Mais ce n’est encore là qu’un portrait incomplet. Je crois sincèrement que dans 10 ans, notre manière de lire et de consommer de l’information sera transformée autant que les réseaux sociaux ont influencé notre manière de communiquer entre nous dans les années 2000.
Nous assisterons, dans ces 1o prochaines années, à la naissance d’un nouveau média, avide de contenu de toute sorte, sans frontière géographique, sans délais de publication, portatif, convergent entre l’audio, la vidéo, l’écrit et l’animation.
Ce n’est pas seulement un nouveau gadget. Le papiel sera un nouvel outil de la démocratie.
en anglais par la BBC…
BBC – Magazine Monitor: 100 things we didn’t know last year
The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn’t know last week. To kick off 2010, here’s an almanac of the best from the past year.
1. Using both hands to read Braille achieves an average speed of 115 words a minute, compared with 250 words a minute for sighted reading.
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2. Gold medal winner Chris Hoy was inspired to cycle by ET.
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3. Moby is related to novelist Herman Melville and was named after his most famous creation.
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4. You can hiccup while asleep.
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5. Countdown is French.
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6. John the Good was bad and William the Bad was good.
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7. In camel racing the jockeys are electronic robots.
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8. The bubonic plague still exists.
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9. Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of edible frogs.
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10. The brain chemical serotonin causes locusts to swarm.
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11. Naked rambling is legal in Switzerland.
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12. Facebook was originally called "The facebook".
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13. Being born with additional digits (fingers/toes) is called being polydactyl.
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14. The famous "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster was never actually used during World War II.
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15. The Channel between Dover and Calais froze over in 1673.
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16. King Henry VIII was a soppy romantic.
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17. You can safely eat more than three eggs a week.
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18. Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th.
19. Elephants kiss.
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20. Grizzly bears hate getting their ears wet.
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21. There are two types of intelligence.
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22. Nicolas Sarkozy collects stamps.
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23. The average number of friends is 150.
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24. Barbie dumped Ken.
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25. Monkeys floss.
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26. Holding your hands up on a rollercoaster stretches the torso, enhancing the physical sensations.
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27. ‘YR’ was an abbreviation for "your" in the 17th and 18th Century too.
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28. Mining output fell more in the periods before and after Mrs Thatcher than during her time as prime minister.
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29. Parts of cremated bodies are recycled.
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30. A broken heart is known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and it can be cured.
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31. Britney Spears’s family comes from Tottenham in north London.
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32. There are 19 countries in the G20.
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33. The song Agadoo by Black Lace is originally French.
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34. Breaking wind is a bookable offence in football.
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35. Britain pays an annual sum to Ireland to cover healthcare costs of Irish workers who have returned home.
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36. Squatters take over islands, as well as homes.
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37. Being sorry originally meant to be distressed and sad.
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38. Paper can be made from wombat excrement.
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39. Five trees make an orchard.
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40. Wine varies in taste from day to day.
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41. Many mosques in Mecca point the wrong way for prayers.
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42. An outbreak of swine flu in 1976 killed one person but a vaccine to combat it killed 25.
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43. Britain once sent an envoy with a quadruple-barrelled name to Moscow – Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
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44. Youth hostelling was invented in Germany in 1912.
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45. A tribe in Bolivia has a festival of violence to settle disputes.
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46. Franco had one testicle.
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47. Britain had animal welfare laws before it had child welfare laws.
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48. The man who was the voice of Mickey Mouse was married to the woman who did Minnie’s.
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49. Stabbing in the buttocks has its own verb in Roman dialect.
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50. The Apprentice losers’ café featured in Z-Cars.
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51. In the 1970 US Census, the number of people who said they were aged over 100 was about 22 times the true number.
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52. Canada used to border Zimbabwe.
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53. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel.
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54. Streetlights cause problems for bats.
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55. Scotland has the lowest age for criminal responsibility in Europe.
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56. Buddhist monks sleep upright.
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57. There is a long tradition of "medals of dishonour".
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58. Chilli can be used as a weapon in crowd control.
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59. Fred Perry was also table tennis world champion.
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60. The keffiyeh, a chequered scarf worn mostly by Arab men, and made famous by Yasser Arafat, is now mostly made in China.
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61. Trousers used to be called unmentionables.
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62. The best place to put a wind turbine is in Orkney.
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63. Brahms liked his audience to clap in between movements.
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64. The best Italian saffron is made from crocus flowers picked at dawn.
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65. It’s always "esq" and never "esquire" as a written honorific.
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66. Football score announcer James Alexander Gordon suffered from slurred speech as a child.
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67. A third of England’s coastline is inaccessible.
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68. Bees warn other bees about flowers where dangers can be expected.
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69. Men At Work’s Down Under was inspired by Dame Edna’s nephew.
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70. Bristol is the fourth most visited city in England.
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71. You’re as likely to be hit by lightning as killed by a mentally ill person.
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72. Only about one or two in 200 people with autism have a savant talent, or exceptional ability.
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73. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has a water slide in his garden.
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74. Emoticons in the East are the right way up (^_^).
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75. The UK population grew more in 2008 than at any time since 1962.
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76. The village of Cambourne, in Cambridgeshire, has a higher birth rate than India and China.
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77. The crease under your buttocks is called the gluteal fold.
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78. Nasa gave moon rocks to more than 100 countries following lunar missions in the 1970s.
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79. Married couples used to always sleep apart.
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80. Everyone once used the left-hand side of the road.
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81. There are so few redheads in Mexico they often greet each other in the street.
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82. Sportswear firms Adidas and Puma have had a 60-year feud.
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83. All British industrial action ballots must be by post, except for workers at sea.
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84. Banana skins can take two years to biodegrade.
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85. The only woman ever in the French Foreign Legion was British.
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86. Ken Livingstone was twice rejected for a cameo in EastEnders.
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87. Homes are 4C warmer, on average, than 50 years ago.
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88. In the early days of barcodes, there was a plan for round ones.
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89. Male life expectancy in the UK goes up by about three months every year.
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90. The flash on David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album cover was inspired by the logo from a rice cooker.
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91. Boyzone sold more singles than Take That in the 1990s.
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92. Morecambe and Wise nearly split up, before they had even got on television.
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93. William Pitt’s dying words were about House of Commons catering.
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94. Bagged salad is photographed 4,000 times a second.
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95. The city of Bath, in Somerset, was referred to as "The Bath" until the 19th Century.
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96. Tattoos can be done with a person’s ashes.
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97. The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
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98. French babies cry with an accent.
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99. Travelling in a "road train" can cut fuel consumption by 20%.
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100. Teeth grinding is known as bruxism.
