Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
A karate club team have been crowned the world’s first gravy wrestling champions.
The eight teams competing for the title slopped about in a converted swimming pool filled with lukewarm gravy as part of the inaugural World Gravy-Wrestling Championships.
The competition took place in the town of Darwen in Lancashire as part of Lancashire Food and Culture week. [Dailymail]
A panda named “YouYou” (友友) celebrated her one-year birthday last week (Sep 5) at Chongqing Zoo, China. The zoo prepared a butter cake for “YouYou” for celebration.
A new version of Web Trend Map has been released.
When Information Architects Japan (iA) released their Web Trend Map in early 2007, it created lots of buzz around the net. Based on the Tokyo Metro Map (pdf), iA has arranged popular websites according to their functionality and influence.
The Web Trend Map is not really precise and useful, but it’s cool nonetheless.
Update Feb 2, 2008 - Web Trend Map 2008 Beta has been released.
London architectural firm Future Systems has won the international competition to design the New National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. [Treehugger, via Neatorama]
The winning design of the New National Library of the Czech Republic
The futuristic looking library will be completed in 2011.
A cow stands on a pitch with 750 fields during a cow-droppings bingo game in Ruswil, near Lucerne, Switzerland, on September 2, 2007. Spectators bet on which field the cows will drop.
I can’t understand why people want to play with sh!t.