8 Of The Manliest Sports

Human beings have played tight athletic games for as long as there is recorded history. There are a few sports played today that have preserved a sense of the savage manliness that characterized earlier sports.These 8 sports were chosen for their man-factor. Physical contact, body hair, and common injury level were all taken into account. Click each sport's title or picture for a video demonstrating their relative manliness.

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OfficePod

Here is an interesting idea being pitched in the UK: The OfficePOD. It isn't just a garden shed, it is a "full service system for employers to lease home offices for their employees to reduce costs, attract and retain staff, reduce CO2 emissions, increase productivity and adapt to change."

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Amazing Views from Above

12 Of The Most Expensive Foods And Drinks

With all the talk about rising food costs, many of us find ourselves in the grocery aisles complaining about paying $4.50 for a gallon of milk. Well, you haven't seen anything yet!
WomansDay compiled a list of ridiculously expensive foods and drinks - including a $250 chocolate truffle and a $700 bottle of wine - that will only have you saying 'Bon appétit' if you can afford it.

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Who Are the World's Most Influential People in 2009?

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, entrepreneurs and thinkers who deserve a spot on this year's TIME 100.

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USA Sitcom Map

Dan Meth produced a map of the United States featuring the places some of your favorite TV shows were set.

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Ski Jump Poo

A Japanese coffee company, Georgia Max Coffee, modified the bathrooms of ski areas around Japan to promote their coffee energy drinks. The comfort stations atop the ski resorts handle the bathroom business in a conventional manner, only the interiors have been covered with landscape picture from atop a ski jump.

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Bus Shelters in Amsterdam Point Out Fat People

The program took off at the initiative of the Netherlands-based health club operator Fitness First. How does it work? Well, the principle is very simple. While the person sits on the near bench, the machine tells the person's actual weight. On the back of the bench, there is a chart that shows if the person weighs more than they should. It's as simple as that.

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Murat Suyur

Objects from our daily life view from a different angle. Good work from this young Turkish photographer.

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Wonderful Wine Cellars For Any Room In Your House

Ever want a wine cellar but don't have the space or money to build one?
The Spiral Cellars design/build firm will dig a hole right in whatever room you want your cellar in and haul the dirt right out the front door.
In the remaining void they infill a highly functionally and visually dazzling spiral-staircase wine cellar to fit all your favorite vintages and go with your favorite funky furniture designs.

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Air de Paris

From 20 km away people can see the atmospheric pollution in Paris.
A giant helium balloon using innovative lighting shows the levels of pollution in the city air. Red shows highly polluted, orange for polluted, yellow for moderate and green for clean.

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How to Get Bruce Lee Like Strength Without Ever Going to a Gym

Bruce Lee was a paragon of cool and an icon of the ultimate bad-ass. Not only were his martial arts skills incredible, but he had such an impressive physique that even bodybuilders in the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger admired him.
What’s more impressive is that Bruce trained his body without ever stepping into a gym and with very little use of weights or machines.





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House Prices Compared: What USD $500,000 Buys Worldwide

The international housing market has practically stalled over the past year and in some countries prices have fallen through the floor. With a considerable drop in prices, now is the ideal time to buy that new home or holiday house. Lets imagine you are upwardly mobile and have around US$500,000 (AU$770,000) to invest. It may not stretch as far as it used to, but you can still get some stunning properties in exotic locations.








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VCR Hack!

Epic Abandoned Substations and Power Plants

The way some power plants and substations look, you'd think they fell out of some crack in the sky and materialized in our world - only to haunt and disturb normal citizens. Their incessant humming, occasional insectoid twittering and subliminal noise can be plenty annoying, but when they get abandoned, the tangle of cables, machinery and crumbling towers (combined with deep silence) makes it visually much, much worse..

In a cold, cold bunker... lurks a dark, dark power (Sweden)

White River Falls Power Station (Oregon)

BC Hydro in Vancouver

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