“This may be the end of this thing…”
Two news helicopters met in a deadly midair collision today while covering a police chase on live television (video, tragic but not graphic).
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Big Wheel Keeps on Turning
Ferris wheels making a comeback. Wheels across the world, past, present, and future, big and small. Graphic comparing various wheels. The London Eye. The Singapore Flyer. A triple Ferris Wheel that closed 10 years ago. And George Washington Gale Ferris’s 1893 wheel that started it all.
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I Spy…
Glad we’re now safe to ride the bus like we do anyway. No need to spend that money making the gas guzzlers more fuel effective, lets just slap cameras in each bus!
Codiac Transit in Moncton will be adding video cameras to some of its buses this fall as part of a plan to increase safety and security for both employees and riders.
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The odd, the unusual, the unbelievable
Fighter jets, overturned tractor trailers, WW II bombers, cars parked on walls, and more of The Strangest Sights in Google Earth
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The Things They Carried
Do you prefer to travel light or be prepared for anything? The Flickr pools for what’s in your bag? and The Items We Carry reveal all. More prevalent than I would have expected: Burt’s Bees, multitools, carabiner keychains.
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Drunks… in… SPAAAAACE!
NASA has a rule requiring that astronauts go at least 12 hours between “bottle and throttle.” Reports say not everyone followed it, and they went up anyway.
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Lord of War
Busting the Merchant of War. "The Bush administration finally nails a notorious supplier to terrorists, after he spent 30 years hiding in plain sight."
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PURE EXCITEMENT!
As Image Comics prepares to resurrect Golden Age comics under the rubric of public domain, it may be worth revisiting heroes of yore, like Stardust (by Hank Fletcher), Fantomah and Titan. Even more can be found through the Pure Excitement reprint webzine, (unfortunately burdened with clumsy navigation– modify the final segment for all 36 issues).
Of course, a fair number of them do show up on the Stupid Comics page, like Fantomah versus the Weird Gorillas, alongside more modern mockeries of books like Man or Astroman and Superman meets the Quik Bunny.
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OH! DANGO! JAM
OH! DANGO! JAM Incredible little Japanese game, Tamagotchi + Pokemon + awesome music = great happy fun time. Z is attack, X is magic, C is defend, and spacebar is special move. Don’t forget to save often using end -> data regist.
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ASL Videos
American Sign Language Flash Video Dictionary is a high quality, free dictionary with a huge number of signs. It includes specialized dictionaries of religious signs, conversational phrases, and ASL for babies. Unfortunately it’s not possible to link to specific signs, but if you look inside you’ll find words from "Abbreviate" to "Zoom" and phrases such as "I cannot fasten my belt," "has he been neutered?" "I already took a bath," "are you married?" and "I need a better firewall."
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It fits like a second (sex) skin.
It puts the lotion in the basket. [nsfw] You know how in The Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer they’re trying to catch is skinning women because he wants to make a suit out of real girls? If this product was around, perhaps we could have saved the lives of a lot of fictional victims.
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Rubber Souled – Bill Cosby Sings The Beatles
The author of the excellent 60s/70s soul music blog Funky 16 Corners has put together an awesome compilation album available for free download, called Rubber Souled, featuring soul covers of Beatles classics; the results are intriguing, from Stevie Wonder’s funked out version of We Can Work It Out to a nightmare inducing Bill Cosby cover of Sgt Peppers.
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Pac-Man plush hat
This handsome Pac-Man plush hat is available in adult and child sizes for $29.99.
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Red rover, red rover: NASA’s explorer ‘bots caught in big dust storm
A blurb just issued from NASA reads, “A severe dust storm is underway on Mars, causing an energy crisis for NASA’s Mars rovers. Dust in the atmosphere over Opportunity has blocked 99 percent of direct sunlight, leaving only the limited diffuse sky light to power the rover.” Here’s more, and still more.
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Scary pix from a ventriloquism museum
A Flickr user visited Kentucky’s Ventriloquism Museum and documented the results in this chilling photoset — these dummies all seem poised to take on independent life and begin pronouncing oracular doom.
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BBC: W’s grandpappy planned fascist coup of USA
A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler.
(The) document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen.
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.
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Kiiiiiii for any occasion, or just for fun!
Kiiiiiii for any occasion, or just for fun! Kiiiiiii, that’s K & 7i’s, is a Japanese girl duo whose sound has been described as "Noise Pop" and "Experimental Fun Music." They’ve made a couple of bizarre music videos, played concerts in Japan and America over the last seven years, and now have an album and a live DVD. Listen to more on their myspace page, grab an .mp3 and read the history, and try to download 5 .mp3s from their site.
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World history, the big story
Macrohistory. Prehistory to yesterday.
This site describes humanity from prehistory to the 21st century – stories about ideas and events. Maps. Timelines index. Country profiles.
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Metal thieves
Because of booming economies in China, India and elsewhere the price of metals, such as copper and aluminum, have reached all time highs. Empty beer kegs for example can be sold for up to $27. Washington DC is experiencing a crime wave of metal thieves who are stripping everything from lamp posts, gutters, catalytic converters and bleacher seats.
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Switch Plates
When you reach for a light switch in North America, what you encounter is probably pretty boring. No doubt you know you could spice it up a little. Maybe you don’t know just how many choices you have. The range of styles available is huge. There are some that may not have much of a market. There are others you probably wouldn’t put up in the office.
RobDurdle.com 
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