By Peter B. de Selding

GLASGOW, Scotland - The private company planning to take wealthy tourists to the edge of the atmosphere starting in late 2009 or early 2010 has refused a million-dollar proposal to film a sex video while the participants are floating gravity free, the company’s president said.

Will Whitehorn, president of Virgin Galactic, said the offer, from an unidentified party, “was $1 million, up front, for a sex-in-space movie. That was money we had to refuse, I’m afraid.”

Whitehorn disclosed the rejected transaction here on Tuesday during the International Astronautical Congress. He said Virgin Galactic, part of Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, is planning to begin flights of the White Knight Two aircraft in late 2009 or early 2010 from Sierra County, N.M.

via MSNBC

Who knew?

And you thought Drum and Bass was only popular in urban areas?

As downtown New Yorkers grew tired of the bar scene, there arose a need for something else besides belligerent door men, sloppy loose chicks, mooching of your boy’s bottle, lists, bad djs and hot smokey, skinny spaces. Enter The Bench: A public outing (and ceremony even) created three men of leisure, three men of renaissance, three men who just want to chill in public sometimes. These three men are non-other than Matt Goias, Max Glazer and On-The-Go Ari. Thanks to these men, along with fourth man Espo (known to his mommy as Steven Powers) and several other leisure seeking downtown folks, we all were given a place to see life pass us by together, right on the street, on the corner of Houston and Orchard in the Lower East Side.The bench attracted the brightest “talent” that downtown New York has to offer.

Now, the guys who brought you The Bench, bring you their new blog Business Class NYC. Judging from their gut-busting antics of the past, this should be a regular visit for your RSS reader. We have only one question for the Bench guys: When is it coming back?

Pictured above: Dante Ross’ grammy at The Bench.

Willi Chevalier
Sigmaringen, Germany
Sigmaringen Beard Club 

On May 23, 2009 Anchorage, Alaska will host the world beard and moustache championships. We thought this was quite relevant since the youg people today seem to be loving their facial hair. All you moustache-twisting hipsters, buy your tickets now. Just ask yourself one question before you do. Do you think you can keep up with these guys?:


Franz “Schani” Mitterhauser
Stockerau, Austria
East Bavarian Beard Club


Elmar Weisser
Brigachtal, Germany
Swabian Beard Club

Mathematicians in California could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for finding a new prime number which has 13 million digits.

Via BBC

Remember this kid? How could we forget.

Earlier this month, several folks in Liverpool England we’re quite surprised to witness a huge 50 foot mechanical spider scaling the side of a building called Concourse House. The spider was dubbed “La Princess”. French artist collective La Machine created this mechanical piece to kick off a theatre piece celebrating Capital of Culture, Liverpool’s celebration of their different cultures and arts including literature, music, sports, stage and the streets. Check out the video:

The AP is reporting that according to a top McCain adviser, the presidential hopeful was actually one of the creators of the most-used hand-held business device. Douglas Holtz-Eakin proclaimed “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.” Later, a McCain aid dismissed the statement as “a boneheaded joke by a staffer.” First, presidential hopefuls are creating things like the Internet, now they’re helping to birth the number one communication device in the world…What could possibly be next for these guys?