Posted in Music, Weirdness, tagged Amazon Eve, music video, Rammstein, Snow White on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have no idea what the lyrics of the song mean, but I believe this is the first time I’ve seen Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs interpreted as a dominatrix fantasy:
Oh, dear. What would Uncle Walt say?
And if they had hired Eve, they wouldn’t have needed the trick photography. (Mildly [...]
Posted in animals, tagged stupid people, Finn, Bern Park, bear, Darwin Award on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Really. What is it with people at a zoo getting stupid with predators?
Man mauled after trying to have picnic with bear in Swiss zoo
A man was just moments away from death as he hung in the jaws of a bear he tried to have a picnic with in a Swiss zoo.
But in the end it [...]
Posted in Weirdness, tagged Le Van, necrophilia, Quang Nam, Vietnam on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people just have a hard time saying “goodbye:”
Vietnamese man dug up wife’s corpse ’so he could hug her’
A Vietnamese man dug up his wife’s corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, it has been reported.
The 55-year-old man from a small town in the [...]
Posted in Disasters, Food, Holidays, tagged deep-fried turkey, Disasters, fire, Thanksgiving on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, dear. Maybe these people should eat out next year:
For seven more “how not to deep-fry a turkey” videos, visit Eat Me Daily.
Posted in Weirdness, tagged castration, culling the herd, fireworks, videos on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve trying to imagine the process by which the star of this video and his friends came to think this was a good idea:
As you can imagine, I failed.
Posted in Science, tagged antimatter, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, lightning on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just to show again that Nature contains more wonders than the mind can imagine, Science News reports that the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has spotted the tell-tale signature of antimatter in terrestrial lightning:
Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system for gamma rays, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has [...]
Posted in Fantasy, Movies, tagged flowcharts, Lord of the Rings, maps, XKCD.com on November 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Via Strange Maps, a rendering of the Lord of the Rings as a flowchart of the progress of the main characters. It’s too big to show here, so a sample will have to do:
Visit XKCD.com for the full diagram. They also have flow charts for Star Wars (original trilogy, of course) and Jurassic Park.
Posted in Science, tagged astronomy, Cassini, Enceladus, photographs, project orion, Saturn, space program on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beautiful photos of Cassini’s fly-by of Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. See the giant water geysers!
And to think, had we kept up with Project Orion, we could have been there to see it in person nearly 40 years ago.
