Here are the list of winners of the just concluded 2010 Skyscraper Competition held annually by eVolo magazine. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization.

First Place 2010 Skyscraper Competition: Vertical Prison
This project examines the possibility of creating a vertical prison in the sky where inmates will have to work and live in a community that will contribute to the host city below. The prison will have agricultural fields, factories, and recyclable plants that will be operated by the offenders as a way to give back to the community. They will live “free” until they have completed their sentence and are prepared to rejoin their communities.

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Watch out for a new road sign intended to warn you of crossing drunks! The road sign picture below can be found on a Romanian town warning motorists to be aware of drunks in the road.

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What’s the strongest beer in the world? See below a list of top 5 beers with the highest alcohol by volume content in the world.

5. Samuel Adams Utopias – The beer is produced by the Boston Beer Company. It contains 27% alcohol by volume.

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Have you already seen one weird shaped vegetable? I have seen many in my grandpa’s farm before. But I was still young that time that I did not even care to take pictures. Here are few weird, unusual vegetable shapes I found online.

Potato

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Here is Caroline Welz, considered one of the two tallest models in the world. Caroline Welz stands 6′ 9″. She is also the tallest woman in Germany. Caroline is a tailor and also a part-time model. Her legs are 51 inches (130 cm) long.
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