Lifestyle
Stolen Recipes
The Stolen Supper Club is a London catering company that uses recipes from famous restaurants, such as Nobu, E&O, the Ivy and Marcus Waering. Every Monday, fifteen guests converge on Notting Hill, BYOB in hand, to sample the Stolen menu in return for a donation (approx. £30 depending on menu). Read a review in The [...]
Camping in Kind
Elderly American retirees have taken to the road and are volunteering in parks and wildlife preserves in return for free accommodation or camping. The motivations are a mix of escape, adventure and necessity as they try to eke out their money. As maintenance budgets are cut, it works for the park staff too and they [...]
Zero Baggage
Zero Baggage is a new service that aims to take the lug out of luggage. They offer a range of options, all designed to make it possible for you to travel with just hand baggage by allowing you to rent new, or almost new clothes and other goods that you need for a trip abroad. [...]
Why Men Go For Younger Women – And Are Missing Out.
If you like graphs you’ll like this: an article that argues that men on online dating sites are looking in the wrong direction for their mate. Instead of chasing 18-yr-old women they should be setting their sights on women in their 30s and 40s.
The Stir
US-based social networking site CafeMom, has launched a new section – The Stir – where moms can kick back and gossip about celebrities, swap stories about their kids and discuss current events, it also features blogs posts from a team of well-known bloggers on subjects ranging from whether Kate Gosselin looks mad to whether potato [...]
Dulux’s Let’s Colour Project
Dulux has a global project – Let’s Colour – that aims to “transform grey spaces with colourful paint”, and so far they have painted Jodhpur pink, London orange and Rio rainbow. Local communities can sign up to have some colour added to their drab surroundings.
Fallen Stars
With recent death of yet another troubled celebrity, and in the light of research that suggests teens aspire to be famous above anything else, is there a Blood, Sweat, and… -style deconstruction of the cost of celebrity show to be done?
Rework Your Resume…and Your Face To Land That Job
It’s reported that people in Chicago have been resorting to desperate measures to land themselves a job – including getting a nose job, and other plastic surgery. Dr Steven Dayan says that pre-interview Botox is the most popular treatment, and he says that the resulting increased self esteem can help both job seekers and those [...]
Human Limits
Mozy has produced a striking poster that details “impressive [human] feats and records”. For example, we learn that the longest sword swallowed by a woman was 27.5 inches long and the record for piercings comes in at 6005+ and weighs in at 6.5 lb.
Modern Bunkers
If you’ve already upgraded your kitchen and bathroom and added a conservatory to your house, what do you do next to outdo the Joneses? You could get yourself an underground bunker to help you survive the “next earth devastating catastrophe, terrorist or nuclear attack”. Vivos is a company building a network of 20 such shelters [...]
