IF Homer Simpson thought heaven was the episode where he was in hell
with a never-ending supply of doughnuts, then Circular Quay this morning
would have come a close second. To celebrate the release of The Simpsons
Movie on dvd, the Simpsons family oversaw the construction of the world’s
largest doughnut.
And the numbers?
It took 40 people over nine hours to build, using over 90,000 doughnuts, half
a tonne of pink icing and 30kg of sprinkles from Donut King.
The giant doughnut measures six metres and weighs a whopping 3.5 tonnes,
which is the equivalent of two rhinoceroses.
Once the giant doughnut’s media duties are complete, the doughnuts will be
donated to Oz Harvest, a Sydney-based charity that collects excess food for
organisations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children.

Still no ideas on what to get your special someone this Christmas, here are some suggestions…

Crystal-encrusted toilet bowl designed by Jemmah Wright.

21kg gold Christmas tree decorated with 240 pieces of jewelry including diamonds and pearls, made by Japanese jeweler Ginza Tanaka.

Your own personal bust made in bronze, silver, gold and other precious metal made by Wrightson & Platt.

Miracle Bra made by Victoria’s Secret and designer Martin Katz. It is adorned with 3575 black diamonds, 117 white diamonds and 34 rubies… only.

Champagne holder made of pure gold for your Christmas party?

Fragrance by Clive Christian sealed with a cap decorated with gold and diamonds.

Fuzzball table for the guys? This is made in Austria and covered with 150,000 crystals

Think this is a fragrance decorated with 6500 Swarovski crystals.

One for the tech geeks, golden headphones with 59 diamonds on each side.

Laptop designed by Aynao Kimera made in 24-carat gold and decorated with 12,000 crystals.

Another one for the geeks, a diamond-encrusted mouse? 59 diamonds in all.

An exclusive Teddy bear released on the 125-year anniversary of the birth of the famous producer of the bear campaign. This bear is made in golden fleece of lurex, sapphire eyes and golden nose and mouth. Be careful what your kids do with it

Swimsuit for $92,000 made by Japanese designer and jeweler Ginza Tanaka. It took more than a month to extract the finest gold threads and to join them together to make this swimsuit that is probably never gonna get wet.



How about a bra made with 630g of pure gold, 7.5-carats of diamonds and taking more than 2000 hours of work by a Chinese jeweler? $108,000.

Another bra for $160,000.


Linen lingerie made of gold for $260,000. It contains 950g of pure gold and was created by a Chinese jeweler that is not for sale but display only. Of course, with the right price, anything can be bought.


This bra is a whooping $1,890,000! It is made of gold and diamonds and made by a Korean company.


Fantasy Bra by Victoria’s Secret worth $6.5M and comes included with 2000 diamonds and 800-carats.

Another version of the Fastasy Bra by VS costing $12.5M made of white gold, 2900 small diamonds (101-carats) and 22 rubies.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of white gold, diamonds and 2900 diamonds weighing a total of 70-carats.

Fantasy Bra for $10M made of diamonds, sapphires and other precious stones weighing a total of 500-carats.

Fantasy Bra - $4.5M.

Fantasy Bra - $15M made of rubies and diamonds.

Lacy gold bra made by Chinese designer Zhou Ningxin with a total of 458 grams of gold.

The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe, and more recently, in the world. The festival is held annually in August in Budapest, Hungary and takes place on Óbudai-sziget (”Old-Buda Island”), a landscaped island on the Danube, thus Sziget stands for Island. Currently it boasts more than 1000 performances each year.

The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile, gap-filling 1993 student event to become one of the definitive European rock festivals by the late 1990s, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, including the Anglosphere and France (11 000 French visitors in 2007). Attendancy rates surpassed the 250 000 mark in 1997 and the 350 000 mark in 2001.
Following the end of the communist era 1989, there were no longer organized camps for musicians to meet up and play, and hence a music festival was proposed as a way to bridge this gap. The festival was started in 1993, originally called Diáksziget (Students’ Island)

Sziget Festival is notable in that it contains acts from many different genres. 2006 saw, among others, a blues stage, a jazz tent, a world music stage, alongside the main stage with more typical popular rock acts.





In 2008, Sziget Festival was from the 11th to the 18th of August. The festival, instead of 7+1 days as in 2007, was 5+2 days long, with a “zero day” where the audience can watch one big concert (Iron Maiden) and a special “minus one day” called “Hungarian Song Day” where several classic Hungarian bands (including LGT, Beatrice and others) play gigs during the day.


Being located on an island, some festival goers have tried to enter by swimming across the Danube or by paddling across in an inflatable raft. The organizers very much discourage these attempts claiming that it has never worked and that, due to the tricky nature of the fast-flowing Danube river.
This first event was organized by enthusiastic music fans in their spare time and ran well over budget, taking until 1997 to repay the losses. From 1996 to 2001 it was sponsored by Pepsi and renamed Pepsi Sziget. It has been called Sziget Festival (”island festival”) since 2002

As well as Iron Maiden, R.E.M., Babyshambles, Sex Pistols, Jamiroquai, Anti-Flag, Flogging Molly, Alanis Morissette, The Killers, The Kooks, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, Pendulum and many other were also confirmed, the day of their performance is available at the Sziget website. The length of the festival was reduced so that the residents living in the neighborhoods nearby would have less trouble because of the noise. The organizers plan to take further steps to reduce noise: the metal stage will be open until 11 pm only and noise filtering walls will be built near the noisiest stages.

A comprehensive survey was done and published on the risk taking behavior and mood of Sziget visitors (2007) by the National Institute for Health Promotion (OEI). The survey revealed amongst others that the last sexual encounter of 9.4% of its participants was unprotected



The festival is popular with west Europeans. Around 50% of visitors come from outside Hungary, with the largest group coming from Germany. Many also come from the UK, France, Italy and The Netherlands