Archive for June, 2008

Spinscraper

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Dubai is planning to build an 80-storey, wind-turbine-powered, Rubik’s cube-style spinning skyscraper, with a 70-storey version planned for Moscow.
(Make sure to watch the concept video too, it looks well swanky.)

Sports fans?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

According to the sign below, how many different things are you going to hell for? For reference, a score of less than 10 could be construed as indicating a distinct lack of ambition…
(Furthermore, most of the list is standard bible-basher boilerplate, but the inclusion of “sports fans” seems like it has an interesting back-story.)
Via: here.

Stupidity

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Compare and contrast:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Hip Replacement: Deeply stupid, and not the good kind of stupid that the other Indy films were.
Iron Man: Deeply stupid, but completely magnificent. (Also has Suicidal Tendencies on the soundtrack, which is always a good thing.)