BBC News - 04/07/2008
Control Room: “South Wales Police, what’s your emergency?”
Caller: “It’s not really. I just need to inform you that across the mountain there’s a bright stationary object.”
Control room: “Right.”
Caller: “If you’ve got a couple of minutes perhaps you could find out what it is? It’s been there at least half an hour and [...]
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.)
Stop-frame animation taken to ridiculous lengths.
I have no excuse for this, other than multi-layer parallax scrolling being the first “oh wow, new and shiny” bit of computer game tech I remember as a young ‘un.
So, with that in mind, go to this site and start resizing your browser window.
(And try to ignore the fact that it’s impossible to work out [...]
BBC News - 11/01/2008
A pair of twins who were adopted by separate families as babies got married without knowing they were brother and sister, a peer told the House of Lords.
A court annulled the British couple’s union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord Alton said.
The peer - who heard of the case from a [...]
Dear Internet,
Please tell me, is this a spoof or not?
I honestly can’t tell any more. I think the web has finally broken my credulity gene.
Hema’s online catalogue frontpage is a marvellous Heath Robinson-y affair.
(Well, it might be rubbish if all you want is to check a price of something quickly, but Hema is so ubiquitous in the Netherlands that I doubt it makes much difference to their profit margins.)
Are you feeling overly happy right now? Slightly too optimistic about the general state of the human race? Then you’ll want to go and read “The 100 greatest quotes from fundamentalist Christian chat rooms”
You’ll laugh:
“I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in [...]
PR Newswire - 10/01/2008
An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency’s deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the [...]
Under normal circumstances, I never make New Years resolutions, but this time I’m going to make an exception: In 2008, if I happen to meet Jackie Ballard, I will punch her in the face. Possibly repeatedly.
The Times Online - 23/12/2007
DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf [...]
I can’t quite decide whether this Vancouver house with a garage-door window is trashy or completely magnificent. Either way, have a photo.
Regular readers will know that I am generally a fan of the Boozahol. Furthermore, I wholeheartedly endorse the use of bacon wherever and whenever possible.
The Las Vegas Double Down Strip’s signature drink: the Bacon Martini, however, may be going a step too far…
Behind the bar, where the typical bartender macerates pineapple slices in vodka or [...]
A very fine set of instructions for creating your very own corn starch-encrusted vodka-filled sweeties. Perfect for those calm, restrained family gathering in the upcoming festive period.
BBC News - 15/11/2007
A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat.
Nicholas Gaubert has described how the incident happened in July 2005, just a week before the fatal shooting of Brazilian man [...]
Associated Press - 19/10/2007
The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody — anybody — to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be dying out.
The donor’s anonymity, said curator Kees Moeliker, is guaranteed.
”We have over 300,000 species represented in our collection,” he said. ”Even though most of [...]