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school bans farting
Children caught breaking wind at Hu Zhuang Elementary School in Beijing are fined about 50p.
Zhang, a school teacher, said: " We use the regulation to help students get rid of their bad habits. And nobody has been fined so far."
chinese must have a better control of bodily functions than we do.
spray-on stockings
"This product is really easy to use; it dries very quickly - you just have to spread it over your skin," explained Hanae Seki, the cosmetics manager at the Sony Plaza store in Tokyo's Ginza district.
The stocking is simply sprayed onto the leg "It's perfect for Japan's summer season, when traditional stockings are too hot. We're selling several hundred bottles a month - people are coming from all over Japan to buy them."
The product is called the Air-Stocking - a fine, silk aerosol spray.
walking things
randomly generated walking things that, by clicking on them, instantly mutate. pretty cool.
animal ringtones
Wildlife recordings from the British Library's sound archive have been turned into mobile phone ringtones.
The library has sold 40 of the 100,000 sounds in its archives, including the noises made by bellowing hippos and cobras attacking.
Some of the ringtones can be downloaded already and others will become available later in the year.
is that a cow in your pocket???