The Ga-Adangbe are an ethnic group in the West African nation of Ghana. The Ga people are renowned worldwide for their funeral celebrations and processions. The Ga believe that when someone dies, they move to another life. Therefore, special coffins are often crafted by highly skilled carpenters. The coffins can be anything wanted by relatives of the deceased from a pencil to any animal such as an elephant. Coffins are usually crafted to reflect an essence of the deceased, in forms such as a character trait, an occupation, or a symbol of one's standing in the community. For example, a taxicab driver is most likely to be buried in a coffin shaped as a car.
Red Sox's number 9 Ted Williams became a Halloween costume. A little explanation for our non-US visitors. Ted Williams was a famous baseball player. After his death in 2002 his body was frozen. In October, 2009 in the book "Frozen" Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically described how Ted Williams was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused by the employees of the cryonics facility.
I love these kind of things. But I wouldn't use something like this myself. Those flash drives would make a great present, but they are not very useful.
Another example of modern Art. At the festival of ceramics in China was built a giant wall of bowls and sinks. It's 328 ft (100 m) long and 16.4 ft (5 m) high. It reminds me of this post - Production of toilet bowls in China (47 pics)
A terrible crash happened yesterday in Perm, Russia. A big bus (MAN to be precise) rammed 19 cars at a high speed because of brakes failure. Fortunately no one died, but 4 people were taken to hospital. Witnesses said that passengers were jumping out of the windows of the moving bus.
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