The Heart Attack Grill, in Phoenix, Arizona, is the most outrageous, politically-incorrect burger joint on this planet – and proudly and deliciously so. There is nothing but burgers – named after bypass surgeries, according to their prodigious sizes and stupendous caloric content - real fries, and “heavy” soft drinks. The waitresses are unashamedly sexy, dress in naughty nurses costumes and carry out mock “checks” on their “patients” before, during and after they’ve eaten, in order to see if they’re up to it. But it’s all done and taken in good humour and whole families enjoy frequenting it.
The creator and owner of this temple of excess is a doctor and a former nutritionist at that, who some 4 years ago simply gave up on trying to make people stick to this or that diet and decided to give them as good a time as can be had on the burger front, even if it may be a short one for some. 

This unofficial Israeli group specializes in not taking anything too serious. Ever thriving on creativity, the group was formed a few years back, and has been active ever since in organizing humorous events, parties, and other “puzzling” occasions - from an annual Water War taking place during the hot Tel Aviv summer, to other events such as a demonstration against passion fruit. Passers-by react with anything from confusion to delight. The majority is quite entertained.

Joost Bakker is without a doubt one of Melbourne’s most resourceful men, creating incredible industrial flower displays, furniture, installation art and other mind-blowing pieces from detritus he finds out and about in his daily travels. Conceiving a building made from straw bales - one of the world’s biggest and most problematic waste products - set into a 100% recyclable steel framework (uncoiled and cut on site), he has created a ‘Greenhouse’ that whilst serving as a platform for Spring to Summer entertaining (day-time café morphing into a night-time venue) also serves to instruct a city on how simple and straightforward sustainability practice can be if each individual gives a thought to the life-cycle of the things they consume.  Highlights include: floors of deconstructed shipping crates, a rooftop garden that grows some of the products served from the kitchen, a feature wall of wild strawberries planted in old plastic palettes, tables fabricated from redundant fire hydrants, chairs of re-structured street signs and shade-cloths woven from tiles discarded by the Melbourne Cricket Club.

To make its brand known, the ING-bank decided to open café’s as a commercial space. The inside of the café is accentuated with a wide band of orange-colored rubber sheets, which extend from the floors up the walls to the ceiling. The first orange area has a service counter. The staffs who serve espresso are all ING Direct employees well versed in their financial products and capable of thoroughly answering questions from customers who come in to drink coffee and become interested in the products advertised in the brochures.

Carrot-mob is a Web 2.0-empowered, open community that promotes social responsibility in a simple, clever fun way. Initiated in California they invite company’s of all kinds – though the most illustrative examples come from retail shops – to behave more social responsible and environmental friendly. The process is guided by the Carrot-mob coaches. If things have worked out fine as a rewards – the carrot – www.carrotmob.org invited all their members to go shopping and eating at the now more responsible and environmentally same and sane place.

Picture 2000 people, mostly in their 30s, seated outdoors listening to a DJ play an eclectic mix. Most are drinking beer or wine they carried in, and some have full-scale picnics. After sundown, the music fades and the real action begins on the giant screen as the classic (at least old) movie starts up. What’s special about that? Consider the venue: Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Eternal home to such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Rudolph Valentino, and Cecil B. De Mille. The movies are programmed by the founder, and generally favor offbeat cult classics. Shampoo and The Birds were recent screenings.

The Urbanspoon iPhone application let you shake your iPhone and gets a random restaurant recommendation for you in proximity of your location. Urbanspoon is iPhone’s free application that uses a gps-chip and gyro-sensors to let you experience a sense of surprise by a random choice.

M1nt® is the first club in China Mainland, that is owned by 500 chosen shareholders who are at the same time elite members. Aside from this there will be room for another 2000 fee-paying members. M1nt® has so far launched exclusive venues in London, Cannes and Hong Kong. Now it is time for flagship, Shanghai. While M1nt® is on the very edge of extravagance it has proven to be a very fresh and successful concept. Partying and earning money do go hand in hand for the extremely rich.

As Melbourne groans under the influx of over 1,000 new residents each week, the city residents are finding ingenious ways to utilise space in high-density residential areas. In 2007, Rooftop Cinema and Bar has been one of the shining examples of how this can be done. Here a previously un-utilised roofop right in the heart of the city has been turned into a cinema screening art-house films and classics through summer. The feel is one of escape, plush synthetic grass covers the main area and the 200 deckchairs look like they might have been shipped in from the French Riviera. The lawn is now even being used for yoga a few mornings a week and from 9AM until 3 AM people make it up seven flights of stairs to get some perspective and escape the crowded city below.

The government of New York is working on free public toilets for about 14 years and there still isn’t one. There is a place and a time for everything is what Charmin, a toilet paper-bran, must have thought when they opened a toilet paper-themed public bathroom in the middle of Times Square with 20 stalls that are more like personal powder rooms. The decorations, music and (over-happy dancing) staff helps to evolve taking a leak into a special experience.

The Pond is a short-term pop-up bar that has been purpose-built to burn bright & die young in Melbourne – it has a lifespan of only 12 weeks and after closing in Australia’s coolest city it will be transported to Sydney for another limited period of time. The Pond is funded by an Australian low-carb and preservative free beer called Pure Blonde (the name of the venue is made by selecting some of the letters from Pure Blonde). An ugly and derelict urban space has been transformed into an eco-friendly drinking eutopia, including recycled plant pots that were swapped for pots (glasses) of beer, certified plantation pine furniture and it even has an entry courtyard featuring six massive silver birch trees found lying under-utilised on an old golfing estate. The product selection at the bar also reflects the message of purity – only white beverages are available and it all closes at 10PM so that people don’t wake up cursing Pure Blonde for a big night out!