Dinner in the Sky is a Brussels based restaurant that serves dinner for up to 22 people... 150 feet in the air! The specially-designed table and chairs are lifted by a crane. Dinner anywhere in Belgium will set you back almost 8 million thousand euros, other locations are also available. Remember, you must wear your seat belt, and don’t drop your fork! Link -via Cynical-C

I am trying to teach my children not to take electric devices into their baths, and here comes a toy like this. Darth Duck Fadar is a rubber duckie shaped like Darth Vader with lights that flash different colors when in contact with water. http://www.gadgets.co.uk/item/DUCKVADER/Darth-Duck-Fadar.html

Uberview has a listing of what fashionable geeks will be wearing this season. You can dress head-to-toe in clothing that does something technical, or else speaks to the world of who you are. Like these Nintendo boxer shorts. Link -via Gorilla Mask

This pie chart makes it easy to see that, contrary to popular belief, the US is not indebted to foreign countries as much as to ourselves. That's still a lot of debt! The Skeptical Optimist has the statistics, and an enlargable pie chart. Link

A Chinese housecat named Agui can pronounce his own name. He only does it when he feels stressed, like when he gets a bath. Push play or go to YouTube. Link to article.

I once had a cat who could do that. His name was Mao.

Bonjour Viet Nam is a music slideshow featuring stunning pictures of Vietnam by photographers Hoang Nhiem, Doan Duc Minh, Phan Hong Hai and others. I had a hard time selecting just one as an illustration. The song Bonjour Vietnam was written by Marc Lavoine and performed by Pham Quynh Anh. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto is a real estate developer in Hawaii. He has a history of renting homes below market value to low-income Hawaiians, but now he’s selecting native Hawaiians to rent luxury homes for only $150 a month. Four of eight families have been selected from 3,000 applicants. He said he is renting the homes "because the affluent people can help the least fortunate people." http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/billionaire.charity.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Richard Klavans and Kevin Boyack mapped different scientific disciplines to show their relationships with each other, and where the research is being done. You can find what disciplines are studied by geographical location, industries, institutions, or topics. They analyzed 1.6 million scientific articles to contruct the maps! For example: the map on the left represents all the disciplines; the map on the right shows that in Boston, research is primarily concentrated in the medical field (red). Link. More information here. -via Metafilter

Shorpy calls itself “the 100-year-old photo blog.” Not all the pictures are that old, but they are pretty old. And fascinating. This picture is the corner of 34th and Broadway in New York in 1914. Link -via Metafilter

Xavier, a ten-month old kitten in Rhode Island, is disabled and cannot walk or support his own weight. He is under the care of an educator from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A fourth grade class in Oklahoma heard of Xavier’s plight and raised $500 to buy a custom kitty wheelchair. Now he can get around! Link (with video) -via Arbroath

Don't get too impressed. This was originally supposed to be the "Animated Gears of War Shirt" but by the time we strapped a 360 to the back of the shirt and added a flatscreen to the front it just wasn't feasible. The test subjects kept falling over, no one liked the car battery power supply duct taped to their leg and don't even get us started on the price.

This animated t-shirt from Think Geek runs on two AAA batteries, conceled in an inside pocket. The image screen is removable for laundry time. A video of the shirt in action is also available. Link -via Grow-A-Brain

Rotate is a game that uses Flickr photos as puzzles. You have to click on the parts to rotate them until they make sense. You are timed. Link -via B3ta

When an underground seam of coal catches fire, the effects can be felt for decades. In Centralia, Pennsylvania, the fire started in 1962 and is still burning! The town was completely evacuated in 1984. See lots of pictures, video, and more information at Fogonazos. Link

Nouvelle Star is a French talent show along the lines of American Idol. Joseph amazed them with his beatbox abilities. How can someone do so many things with his mouth at once? Push play or go to YouTube. -via b3ta

Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo met as 12-year-old students at the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music. Their music/comedy show, A Little Nighmare Music has played all over Europe, but they have never performed in the United States. Push play or go to YouTube. More videos are available at their site. http://www.igudesmanandjoo.com/igujoo.htm -via Videosift