Belgium for sale on e-bay

E-bay has already taken off the advert, but on monday you could have pushed to buy Belgium through the site. A Belgian journalist, Gerrit Six, put on the ad with an initial value of 1 million euros, but later the price had gone up to 10 millions, because of the 26 offers.

Hahahaha, more fines

This week's fine goes to Microsoft. 497.000.000 euros for
abusing its dominant position and pushing Media Player. They should give them another 1.000 million euro fine, just for using so many Gigas to run Vista.

Ironman, the movie

And here is the latest of the Marvel Comics brought to the big screen. Have a preview at the trailer for Ironman.

watch video

Marathon du Medoc

The best marathon in the world! 8.000 people running from chateau to chateau in Pauillac ( Bordeaux, France ), drinking wine at all of the 23 wine chateaus along the route, so it is not surprising only a few get to the finish line. As one of the competitors said : " if I arrive at the finish, I didn't drink enough."

Help find Steve Fossett

The adventurer Steve Fossett is missing, but at least here we are certain the parents didn't do it... Now you can help finding him through Google Earth.

Find Steve Fossett

Antonio Puerta, a great player gone

From here we would like to show our pain for the death of 22 year old Seville player Antonio Puerta, the Spanish international who died this week. And what better way then with his goal against Schalke04.
And we do not want to forget the Zambian player Chaswe Nsofwa of Israeli second division side Hapoel Beer Sheva.
watch video

News???

A suspect of beating his mother into hospital receives the visit of a TV crew, and tells them what he thinks of the news.
watch video

hello again & hole in one

Hi again to everyone. Holidays are over, so here we go again....
And here's a hole in one to start with. Oh, i forgot to tell, the woman who hit it is BLIND!!!
read article

the cat you woudn't want to meet

You would not want this cat to come and cuddle you when you're in a hospital in Providence , Rhode Island, U.S. Because you only have a couple of hours to live when HE comes.
read article

Belgian PM does not know the national anthem

The new Belgian Prime Minister doesn't know the national anthem. When asked to sing some lines, he started with the Marseillaise! And it wasn't his first stupidity.
read article

Surfing at 40Gbps

A 75 year old Swedish grandmother has the fastest internet connection in the world. 40 Giga/sec!!! They should fine Telefonica another 152 million euros/month until we have that! She could download a HD movie in less than 3 seconds, but will only be using it to read the newspapers.
read article

Justice too slow?

This guy can't wait for justice so he just sorts it out himself in the courtroom.

watch video

Boy has to rape his mother

The worst story ever, boy is forced by gang members to heve sex with his mum.
read article

Money from the sky

Why does it never happens to me? A German driver saw money falling from the sky and stopped to collect it. And then she handed it over to the police!!!!!!
read article

Promo or Porno

Great new promotion campaign on Youtube by the European Union! 44 seconds of authentic "Let's come together", a rather twohearted title for Europe,s campaign.
ver video

Wife replaced by cow on grave

A Serbian farmer has replaced his wife's name on the family grave with a picture of his favourite cow.
Zivomir Nesic, 58, from Markovac, demanded his pre-ordered gravestone be changed after a row with his wife.
He said: 'I always said my wife was a cow so, if I'm going to have a cow on my grave, I would rather it was one I actually liked.'

New building plan Marbella

The Andalusian government reckons they have done an "excellent job" on the new building plan for Marbella. In the end, the urbanisable surface will increase by 31,2%, more or less what the infamous and deceased mayor, Jesus Gil y Gil, wanted and gave permissions for, so what has all the hassle been for? Building land increases by 15,8 million square metres to 56,5 million square metres.
read article ( in Spanish )

nude photographer creates controversy

Parents are not too happy about Doug Markwith, a local photographer, who likes to take nude pictures of their daughters. Of course, this is all just free publicity for his site, which got some gorgeous birds on it by the way .

Malaga grows!

Interesting article from the "El Sur" newspaper about the increase in built surfaces over the last 50 years in the Malaga province. Where have they found these nearly 43.000 hectacres ( 1HA=10.000m2 ) extra from though?

Natural and seminatural areas : from 339.471 to 338.991
Forest areas : from 142.998 to 171.225
Farmland : from 377.410 to 344.823
Waterways : from 463 to 2.618
Irrigated surfaces : from 17.106 to 31.050
Built areas : from 4.739 to 36.287

Totals : from 882.187 to 924.994
read article ( in Spanish )

Safari for PC

I am still using Firefox, but the popular Mac browser Safari is finally available for PC and Windows.
It is apparently quite a bit faster than any other browser, so, if you want to try it out, you can download it here