This all weather coat can be stuffed with newspaper for extra warmth or used as a pillow or a backpack in warmer times.

Designed by Lida Baday, 3,000 will be made and distributed to the homeless across Canada and the US in March 2008. picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

These incredible photographs look more like a scene from the end of the world than a winter sunrise.

The dramatic pictures were taken in north west Greenland by British Arctic photographers Bryan and Cherry Alexander. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Tilt-shift video by Erik West for Codebreaker featuring Kathy Diamond.
"None of the snow in this piece is simulated. I went out and show on the snowiest days of winter. The last scenes in the video were shot during a blizzard." picked by Bornbad 9 months ago

The Florida Highway Patrol says an 18-year-old Winter Park man was killed after riding in a shopping cart while holding onto a moving sport utility vehicle. picked by mutil8or 2 years ago

A Winter Garden man told investigators he was trying to protect his sister when he forced her into the trunk of his car in Daytona Beach and headed for home down Interstate 4, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.
*Flori-Duh* picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Winter is coming, time to make those decorations for the tree. Don't endanger yourself with sharp scissors, (ouch!)make snowflakes the virtual way!

I just made this one in the post image. picked by waggamandave 2 years ago

Traditional snow globes house relaxing winter scenes of Evergreen trees, snow-capped houses and horse drawn carriages. However, these snow globes show something quite different picked by deepcleanfun 1 year ago

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- The storms that have lashed Oregon's scenic coast this winter have dredged up an unusual array of secrets: old shipwrecks, historic cannons, ghost forests -- even strangely shaped iron deposits. picked by TchEngRox 2 years ago

It defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but the legendary Russian winter is facing a formidable new challenge from the Mayor of Moscow, who wants to stop it from snowing.
Yuri Luzhkov has said that snow should be banished from Moscow in winter to save money and improve life in the city. picked by kakana 3 months ago

While British divers invented underwaterhockey to spend the winter months their continental nemesis - Germany - found diving at winter temperatures equally unpleasant resulting in the invention of underwater rugby. Simply exercising to maintain your physical fitness for only a few months of actual diving a year gets boring eventually, a problem solved creatively by inventing an underwater ball gam... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

During a Portland Winter Hawks hockey game fans threw over twenty thousand stuffed animals onto the ice after their team's first goal picked by bigtonyboy 2 years ago

Bats afflicted with a mysterious and deadly disorder might be able to make it through winter with the help of heated boxes placed in hibernation caves, a pair of researchers say. The boxes being tested this winter are not intended to cure "white-nose syndrome", could help stricken bats preserve enough precious energy to survive hibernation season.
Update to this story of last year picked by bingo 9 months ago

Poor guy. I'm surprised I haven't done it myself. Gotta watch the video till the end, it's only 45 seconds. picked by myrthachang 2 years ago

ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) -- Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? On a winter break trip with his family to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the 11-year-old southwestern Michigan boy noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era. picked by prish 2 years ago

What promised to be a magical day out for many families turned out to be a disappointing muddy field with sheds in it. picked by pocksucket 12 months ago

Before the Wyandotte-Melvindale game Friday night, a flyer was circulated that purported to quote Adams using the 'N' word. The flyer, which claimed Adams made the remarks at a coaches clinic in Battle Creek last winter, stated in part: "I will take my big Polish kids over your fast (expletive) any day.... "What are you going to do when my BIG Polish kid runs right over your little... read full post picked by cecilberman 1 month ago

When Jill Bell noticed a dent on the hood of her car two winters ago, she thought it would be appropriate to paint a Band-Aid on the scrape.

After the painted bandage survived the ice and snow of winter, Bell decided that she wanted to repaint her car entirely - in nail polish. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Digital painting in Photoshop picked by kairo 2 years ago

Mrs Neely of the Tortoise Sanctuary, had to set up the fridges because of the particularly mild winter. Her tortoises hibernate for up to three months between December and March.

They are in danger of waking early if it heats up - and then do not have enough body weight to keep themselves warm and not enough energy to eat or drink. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Hell, the small Norwegian village, that is. Oh, and temperatures in winter reach -20°C... picked by TheStep 2 years ago