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Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. This lovely Louis Vuitton piglet must be one of his cutest projects. In case LV lawyers are looking to sue the artist for copyright infringement they'll have to fly to China, where Wim (who is a vegetarian) has a pig art farm.
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Restaurant owner Jean-Marc Speziale is so pissed off with the general prejudice that Languedoc-Rousillon wines are lousy plonk that he decided to hit back. He now labels some of his wines (which are actually very drinkable) Vin de Merde, or Shit Wine in proper English. He claims not to do it for the money, but […]

Just by singing in English, precocious French duo the Do (pronounced "doe") have sparked a cultural shift in their homeland. Their playful, genre-hopping debut album A Mouthful topped French charts in January, as did their first single On My Shoulders (see video below). But unlike most hit bands in French history, their entire album, bar […]

French singer Yelle (a feminised acronym of YEL, "You enjoy life" - wiki) is a French singer from Brittany. Here she is in her latest clip, Ce Jeu (this game).

Oh, and did I mention the nip slip at 2:07?

Step 1: be a politician in Colombia
Step 2: ignore all warnings, and venture into rebel country
Step 3: get captured
Step 4: spend 2,321 days in the jungle
Step 5: get released and kissed by Sarkozy
Ingrid Betancourt gets Women's World Awards 2008

The French are getting sloppier by the day. As if multiple uranium leaks, and the theft of 28 kg of Semtex (which still hasn't been found) aren't enough, the French customs authorities found out this week that happy smokers got away with 200-300 kilos of cannabis resin. The stuff was stored in an unguarded customs […]

This is what happened if you lived in sin in France in 1844:

It's along pictorial story without a happy end:

View the full story on Neatorama

A couple of weeks ago I showed Nick Sarkozy photoshopped as an ape (via Celebrity Apes):

Turns out it wasn't photoshopped at all:

Photo: Gerard Cerles AFP
Source (20 Minutes)

Spanish site km77.com publishes the first pictures of the new version of Renault's highly successful Mégane. The photos have been acquired illegally; Renault wasn't planning on making the car public until next week. Too late now! (Click pic for more detailed images)

(One reader commented that there were not five but nine French cars on the list, so here's an updated version of this post.)
Readers of the British Daily Telegraph picked the 100 ugliest cars of all time. Five Nine French voitures made it to the list. The ugliest of those is the Citroën Ami (#33):

Considered slightly […]

Claire Chazal is the French veteran news anchor who presents Le Journal during the weekends. Yesterday she appeared in a transparent fuchsia shirt, which showed too clearly that she was wearing a white bra.

One news clip later Chazal was back. Problem solved!

Watch the video | Source (in French)

I must admit I had never heard of trout pouts, but thanks to the Daily Mail I know better now. Or worse, Trout pout alert: French actress Emmanuelle Beart's over-the-top lip

Left: Beart getting lippy. Right: the 2001 full pout, no trout version
"While the actress has always been blessed with full pouting lips, it seemed as […]

When a plumber was asked to clear the blocked drains of an apartment building he was surprised to find the cause of the bouchon: 60,000 euros in 50-euro notes, each ripped into two or four pieces, and flushed through the toilet. The owner was quickly found: a depressed man, living in the building with his […]

French picador Jacques Monnier went all the way to Bilbao in Spain to show off his heroic control of horse and spear. The animal that doesn't wear protection probably died later that hour. (Click for bigger)

Nobody knows why, but the Françaises haven't done a great job at the Beijing Olympics.
Out of the 39 medals only 7 ended up around female necks, including just one gold medal. It's a French phenomenon: among the top-10 medal winning countries, over 40% of victories went to girls. It's also new: in 2004, at […]