The last two days worked at marcia’s studio in Amsterdam on the pasta-carpet. it was always our dream to make a much bigger pasta carpet. so here is pasta carpet
Source : We make Carpets
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Gerald Fowler, a full-time chilli farmer for five years, crossed three of the hottest varieties to produce the fiercest pods known to man.
His Naga Viper rates an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.
Experts at Warwick University tested the chilli and the Guinness Book of World Records approached Gerald to include it their 2012 edition as the world's hottest.
‘When they grow chilli in India or the Caribbean they're used to the heat and the drought. When they're grown over here I think they fight back against the harsher climate and produce even more heat,’ said Gerald.
He sells the chilli as a sauce but says he's getting most interest from growers keen to get their hands on the seeds.
"It's painful to eat," said Gerald, 52, who runs the Chilli Pepper Company, in Cark-in-Cartmel.
‘It's hot enough to strip paint.’
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Man And Woman trying To marries dog now a day An Australian man Joseph Guiso has taken marrying your "best friend" to a whole new level. He's now hitched to his dog.Human-animal marriage is not recognized in law by any country
Joseph Guiso, 20, married his 5-year-old golden Labrador Retriever named "Honey" in an elaborate wedding ceremony at a park in Toowoomba.
Thirty of Guiso's friends and family attended the ceremony, which concluded with the groom getting down on one knee and planting a kiss on his four-legged bride.
"You're my best friend and you make every part of my day better," Guiso told Honey, according to the New York Daily News.
Animal rights groups in Australia have disapproved of the wedding.
Guiso says the relationship is purely platonic and that the wedding was a light-hearted way to celebrate with friends.
Human- Dog marriage
June 2003 - a nine year old Indian girl of the Santal (or 'Santhal') tribe of Khanyhan, near Calcutta was formally married to a dog, in order to ward off a bad omen. The wedding was attended by more than one hundred guests, who danced to the beating of drums and drank home-made liquor. The girl told Western press, "I have no regret in marrying the dog Bacchan. I am fond of the dog who moves around our locality " and tribal elders added she was free to remarry a human in future as an adult.
November 2007 - A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death — an act he believes cursed him. Selva kumar, 33, told the paper he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and hung their bodies from a tree 15 years prior.
February 2009 - An infant boy was married off to his neighbors' dog in eastern India by villagers who said it will stop the groom from being killed by wild animals. The boy will still be able to marry a human bride in the future without filing for divorce.
November 2010 - A young Toowoomba man tied the knot with his best friend – a five-year-old labrador.
Friday, 3 December 2010
British cheese-makers have announced they are to release a beer made from Stilton cheese. No, we're not convinced either.
The unusual brew is said to capture the distinctive flavour of creamy and salty blue cheese and is made by combining stilton whey with beer wort.
This produces a 4.2 percent real ale "The Blue Brew" which drinkers will be glad to know is a traditional chestnut-coloured ale rather than a blue concoction.
Bosses from the Stilton Cheesemakers Association and Belvoir Brewery say it took several attempts to get the drink right but they are convinced drinkers will like the taste.
Would you try a cheese beer, what cheese would you like to see turned into a beer? Let us know in the comments. We're off for a pint of Cheddar Artois.
One drinker who tasted the Blue Brew said: "You can really taste the cheese.
"It's not overpowering or too strong a taste, but there's a definite hint of Stilton in there."
Thursday, 2 December 2010
"Baby Klaus," as his parents and local media are calling him, was born with hydrocephalus, a build-up of excess fluid in the brain that has caused his head to swell to more than 130% larger than a typical newborn's head.
After several doctors near their home in west Texas refused to operate or told them that their baby would die soon, the stricken baby's parents, who identified themselves as Klaus Sr. and Beatrice, found a hopeful savior in Dr. David Jimenez, the chairmen of the department of neurosurgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
Jimenez and his staff inserted a tube in the baby's head to drain the fluid and relieve the pressure, and the child's head is already about a foot smaller than it was when his parents brought him in about two weeks ago, San Antonio's KENS5-TV reported.
Still, doctors and hydrocephalus experts said Baby Klaus's had a particular severe case and that progress would be slow.
"It's like nothing that I've seen before," Jimenez said.
Known to doctors as "water on the brain," hydrocephalus occurs in about 1 out of 500 babies born and can cause brain damage, according to the Mayo Clinic's website. If left untreated, the condition can be fatal.
Baby Klaus's parents told local media in a news conference that they are praying for their son every day and hopeful that the fact that he has managed to live almost a year is a sign that he will survive. It is likely, though, that he faces extensive reconstructive surgery in the future, Jimenez said.
"What I can tell about my son is he's a great fighter," Klaus, Sr. told KENS5-TV. "He's a warrior."
A man in the US has finally come to the end of his highly publicised potato-only diet, which resulted in him losing a stone and a half in weight over two months.
Chris Voigt started his unique diet on October 1 in an attempt to draw attention to the nutritional benefits of eating the vegetable.
As executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, Mr Voigt hopes his efforts will highlight what a good source of fibre, potassium and vitamin C potatoes are.
He is believed to have eaten nothing but 20 potatoes every day for 60 days and claims despite health warnings, has actually lost weight and seen his cholesterol level drop.
On Monday, the last day of his diet, Mr Voigt said he would not consider his campaign a success unless the US government changed its stance on potatoes and changed its plans to limit the number of meals in which the vegetable appears in school menus.
'The people who know me closely know I'm a huge introvert, so this is kind of out of my comfort zone, being front and center,' he said about his diet.
'But this is also part of my job, so I embrace it and welcome it.'
The Facebook group he set up to follow his progress during the two months attracted over 2,000 fans, with many users posting their support for Mr Voigt.
After 60 days of eating only spuds, Mr Voigt said he was planning on having a belated Thanksgiving turkey dinner for his first proper meal in two months
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
A French artist says coastguards are constantly trying to 'save' him whenever he takes his boat out -- and it's not hard to see why.
Julien Berthier has created 'Love Love' a boat which permanently looks like it is sinking and sticking out of the water.
The zany 35-year-old from Paris took a wrecked boat which he found in Normandy, cut it in half and sealed the end with fibre-glass before fitting two electric motors.
It's said the result is a 'surprisingly stable' craft, where the sailor sits in an upside down seat. Of course the problem is, no-one will ever know if he is in real trouble.
Speaking of his unusual ship Berthier told Newslite: "I froze the moment just a few seconds before the boat disappears forever, creating this endless vision of its most dramatic moment.
"Yet, something not noticable at first glance comes in the way of this stereotyped image. The boat actually doesn't sink.
"And the sailor, well installed in an upside down seat, doesn't seem to panic. Looking closely at it, he can even sail his wrecked ship."
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