Adverts aren’t usually much to get excited about; often they’re an irritating nuisance. A lot of the time you don’t even realise you’re absorbing what they’re trying to tell you; they just bite away at your attention like so many fleas. Occasionally, though, an ad is smart enough to give you a different perspective on things – like this giant floor sticker in a Jakarta shopping centre, which seems to pose the question: who are the real parasites are in the bigger picture?
Continue reading...12. March 2009
Here's something to try out the next time you want to have some fun in the sun - water skidding. Yes, we do mean skidding, not skiing. It's like walking on water, except that you're moving much faster and traveling on your behind. If you can't imagine what this might look like, check out this Youtube video of a man wearing nothing but his Speedos zip down a water slide and skid across a pool for several metres!
Continue reading...10. March 2009
The latest craze in Russia is ice bungee jumping – in a group! Here’s what you do. Take your 20 closest friends, find a nice railway bridge over a frozen river, attach yourself with a rope to the bridge (don’t forget this step), line up and jump as the train approaches. Make sure to be on your way out before the cops come. See some more crazy pictures of this new outdoor sport…
Continue reading...6. March 2009
Pictures like these hark back to an era when rail transport was the dominant mode of long-distance transport – yet like all technological innovations of their time, locomotives were prone to human and mechanical error. Major derailments and other accidents occurred with alarming frequency during the Industrial Revolution just as they do now – steam seemingly no more a safeguard against mishap than electric power.
Continue reading...4. March 2009
What sounds like the beginning of a joke and looks like a photoshopped image is actually a smuggling attempt. The story goes like this: a Bedouin resident of the Negev desert is thinking of ways to maximise his income…
Continue reading...26. February 2009
Ever wondered what the Victorian era, in all its gloom and grime of the industrial revolution, would have felt like? Or wished to meet Dickensian characters like that wicked schoolmaster or the clever shoeshine boy? Well, you can, at Dickens World in the UK. Find out what other bizarre theme parks make one look forward to coming back to even the gloomiest of economies…
Continue reading...24. February 2009
Many people know the Tree of Life, which is part of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Florida. However, at the other end of the world, in India, where few people have heard about it and even fewer will ever visit this tree, its image has been used for an email hoax for months. Find out how…
Continue reading...23. February 2009
It has been about a week since Valentine's Day, and the internet has been deluged with stories of what people did that day ever since. Amazingly, one of them was actually worth reading about. It occurred in India, where rapid modernization and liberalization has put traditionalists on the defensive.
Continue reading...11. February 2009
As hunter-gatherers the vast majority of us have totally lost our instincts. And no, foraging for food in supermarkets doesn’t count. Anglers may claim to be more in touch with their innate survival skills, but with all the gear you can get, it’s not hands-on like back when spearfishing was a luxury. But the bird featured here is fully in touch with its natural instincts, and shows an ingenuity that puts most of us to shame. After all, we’re too busy dumbly watching footage of the little fellow!
Continue reading...11. February 2009
An attempted robbery and car theft in Nigeria has led to the citizen’s arrest of a goat by one of the country’s vigilante groups. The vigilante group in the Anifowose Ipata/Oloje areas of the state capital chased two armed robbery suspects and thought they were close to capturing them after thwarting their attempts to steal a Mazda car as a getaway vehicle.
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13. March 2009
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