Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Shopping for the Apocalypse: Costco Offers a Full Year’s Supply of Freeze Dried Survival Grub

For a mere 800 bucks (after the $200 rebate) you too can eat well as you ride out whatever natural catastrophe or full-scale societal break-down comes your way. Link. And true to the independent and self-sufficient spirit of the survivalist crowd, there’s only enough food here for one person. So make sure you’ve got enough […]

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
It Takes A Village – of Chinese Dwarves!

Walt Disney World’s got nothing on China when it comes to combining experiments in social engineering with kitschy tourist attractions; “A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall – and they […]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Wolverine Gets a Manicure

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag9ugF4FqX4[/youtube] For this mutton chopped mutant,  even the simplest of life’s pleasures can be a minor ordeal at times.

Thursday, September 24th, 2009
There’s a Dick in my McNuggets!

Word on the street has it that someone’s putting a cock-shaped chicken nugget on the block for auction at Ebay. Now, I’ve always felt that preprocessed meat nuggets present a certain kind of Rorsach test for some. And if it’s true that we humans are indeed “pattern seeking animals”,  and that this impulse includes a […]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Business of Payback

I think Brother Greg was thinking of starting a business along these lines. You should follow up on that – you had some ideas I don’t see in this Revenge/Alibi service. This does look like a law suit waiting to happen, though. Revenge by proxy: an L.A. enterprise — latimes.com Ferguson and a partner operate […]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Showcase of Unique Architecture

From instantShift, a gallery and description of some very unique architecture.  80+ Strange and Fantastic Buildings Architecture | Showcases | instantShift

Monday, September 21st, 2009
It was going to find Steve Guttenburg’s career

Apparently a MQ-9 Reaper drone’s fail-safe programming failed and it rushed through Afghanistan’s airspace on Sunday.I find it comforting that attack drones occasionally just say ‘fuck it‘ and take the day off work too.

Friday, September 18th, 2009
Pictures of Normandy 1944-Now

Historian photographer Patrick Elie finished a project where he took old photos from war-torn Normandy in 1944 and matched them with a current photo that he took of the same spot.  Since much of Normandy was re-created during the rebuilding process, there are some neat before-after shots here. Shocking Photos of Normandy from D-Day and […]

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Bananas for sex cult leader on the run

This one is too easy: Papua New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult that promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex. The alert was raised after a villager from Yamina in Morobe province walked 12 hours to the nearest town to report the cult’s activities.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Who Hates Democracy?

Here’s a good one coming out of the UK. Apparently the omnivorous lifestyle is in no danger of dying out there, maybe it’s Gordon Ramsay’s fault… A sheep reared by schoolchildren who was at the centre of a row over whether it should be sent to slaughter has been culled, a headteacher said today.A 14-member […]