Unusual Life

Bill Gates, as Microsoft Corporation Chairman (left), looks at an empty oversized bowl on a giant kitchen table, accompanied by Portugal’s Science and Technology minister Mariano Gago at the knowledge and Living Science pavilion at the Parque das Nacoes, Lisbon, Portugal.

Want your own big furniture? Great Big Computer Key-stool

World’s Largest Chair

World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things

Bill enjoying his retirement hobnobbing with the rich and famous:

Marlow Harris and Bill Gates

A Yurt is a traditional felt home of the nomads who live on the cold, barren steppes of Central Asia. In the U.S. today, yurts are made using hi-tech materials and are used year-round as comfortable homes. Want to get a taste of yurt life without the yurt commitment? Try a yurt-based vacation.

Vacations in a Yurt link

Dog Sled Tours and sleep in a yurt.

Yurt Park in Washington State.

Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park’s Yurt City

Chocolate cake in the shape of The Smithsonian Institution
Castle building.

A replica of the Juliette Gordon Low birthplace made entirely out of Girl Scout cookies was built last year by the staff at Thomas & Hutton Engineering Services and was entered in the Girl Scout Cookie Challenge.

For a recent class project, Thornton Academy students created cookies in the shapes of the various buildings on TA’s campus. In addition to the Main Building, Linnell Gym and Charles Thornton Building, there’s the Industrial Arts building, the Locke Emery building, Headmaster’s House and more. The cookies are detailed in sweet icing to bring out the finer points of each building, like windows and bricks.

Do you want to make your own building-shaped pastries and cookies? Order a Empire State Building Cookie Cutter.

This cookie cutter (approx. 2¼ x 7¼”) is made from strips of copper that are 1-1/8″ thick after the top edge has been folded over. Each cutter is formed by hand and soldered together for a permanent old-fashion hold. Want the Flat Iron Building, the Chrysler Building or something by Frank Lloyd Wright? Order a custom-shaped cookie cutter from Cooper Gifts too.

Replica of the White House done entirely in Gingerbread.

Design your own virtual Gingerbread House

Gingerbread House webpage, recipes and patterns

Photos of a gingerbread house modeled after a fantasy amusument park and the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria

Longaberger Company home office building shaped like one of their handmade baskets, with employees gathered outside. What started out as a dream by Dave Longaberger, Founder of The Longaberger Company, has been built into a giant basket to house the corporate offices of the company.

Here’s the company website, which is kitschy, but not at all in the same way that the corporate offices are.

Here’s a list of the World’s Largest Things