Gizmodo: Belgium

Sexy Lady Offers to Harvest Virginity of Net Neutrality-Supporting Nerds (NSFW)

AddyDugdale — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EDT

Still in Belgium—hurrah!—let us segue from sticky ponchos to stickiness of another kind. Notorious sexylady Tanya Devereaux says that she is turning virgin surgeon in order to divest any nerd of his cherry—provided that they support a free web. One of the terms and conditions states that the act must not last for more than 30 minutes. Er, could any guy last more than 30 seconds on their first time?

So, let's see. No anal sex without prior negotiation. Condoms must be worn, unless the nerd-gin wishes to release his manfat on Tanya's body. No under-18s. Proof that the vi~~ctim~~rgin supports net neutrality must be provided (a black tee-shirt with "I Support Net Neutrality" emblazoned on the front won't cut it, sorry.) Finally, Tanya "may deny service for hygiene reasons."

This is not the first time that Ms Devereaux has offered up her orifices for a good cause. Last year she put 40,000 blowjobs on the negotiating table when she ran for a seat in the Belgian senate, as a protest against other politicians' claims that they would create 400,000 jobs. Clearly she thought that sucking on a pencil would get voters putting a XXXX in her box. [Don't Stay Virgin and Skirmisher—thanks Dirk]

Belgian Students Break Mento-and-Coke World Record

AddyDugdale — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:25:00 EDT

Here's what you do when you're a student in the Belgian town of Leuven. You don a blue plastic poncho alongside 1,499 undergraduates, all standing in line at very long table, on which is placed a bottle of Diet Coke and a Mento. On the count of three, having raised your hood, you drop the mint in the plastic bottle, and 1,500 fountains of sticky drink erupt simultaneously. More pics below. Update: We've stuck a video up there, as well.

It's rather reminiscent of a miracle occurring during dinner in the refectory of the Order of the Blue Man Monastery (patron saint Tobias Funcke.)
The record was broken, I hope the stickiness was cleaned up from Place Ladeuzeplein, and the kids got to keep their ponchos.

[Telegraph and MyVideo]

Video of World's Largest RC Airplane, the B29 Dina Might

AddyDugdale — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:13 EDT

From Belgium, the B29 Dina Might is the world's mightiest remote-controlled plane. With a wingspan of almost 30 feet, it weighs 463 pounds and runs off four 160cc engines. Spin those propellers, mate. [Live Leak]

Making Brown Beer Green

Joel — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:09:44 EST

Green beer is gross. If god wanted beer to be green, he would have made us use the hop plant's cousin marijuana instead of barley to brew. (Hey...)

So another feather in the cap of Brooklyn Brewery—they've already got our support for making pretty tasty beers—who produces regular, brown- to amber-colored beer with green energy, paying a premium to ConEd to purchase power generated by a wind farm in upstate New York.

Perhaps even cooler, though, is Colorado's New Belgium Brewery, who uses excess waste water laden with worty goodness to generate methane gas inside closed pools of anaerobic bacteria. [pictured]

Find out all about it in Wired News's not-very-gadgety article.

This Green Beer's the Real Deal [Wired News]