Giant Knife 16999 Wenger Swiss Army Knife - umm. So something like a Swiss officer's two-handed sword or so ...
weird - 26.7.2007 - 22.1.2010
The Collection - Leatherman - what about Leathermans in silver or gold with silver? I mean, what's a $12,000 Leatherman among friends ...
aM laboratory - lovely. Totally pointless and wonderfully wasteful of time.
TidBITS Entertainment: "If Monks Had Macs" Available for Free - one of the strangest projects from the old Mac era. Interesting just because you can see how some people used Hypercard back then (runs today on Runtime Revolution and thus cross-platform).
Plane attacker faces 40 years in prison - "the father - a respected former Nigerian minister and banker of the US embassy - is said to have communicated." - and did he also have 20 million from his former ministerial work that he urgently needed to transfer abroad? I mean, no wonder Nigerian ex-ministers and bankers are not believed with all that Nigerian spam .... (reality still delivers the best stories)
Spiders that don't like meat - the spiders, the vegetarians. Or so.
Pick up a penguin - penguins are freaks!
Insect sushi: creepy crawly cuisine - "However, he admits that not all insects make good cuisine. He also advises anyone trying his cockroach recipes not to think about what they are eating"
This Rocketship Will Crash - Finding blogs like this by chance makes the internet interesting.
Weird New Ghostshark Found; Male Has Sex Organ on Head - sounds like a headline from the Bild newspaper, but is actually just a very strange fish from an equally strange group of fish species.
"Arctic Sea" spotted off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands - the whole story is getting more and more confusing. There's definitely a movie in this!
Braunschweiger Flashmob becomes a political issue - what kind of flashmob? It wasn't one even when no one knew - flashmobs with a notice period of several days? What? Has anyone ever thought about why the part "flash" is in the word flashmob? Do lightning strikes now announce themselves a week in advance and apply for the right to strike?
Human Powered Monorail Racetrack - crazy
WPS: PostScript for the Web - crazy.
Discworld Cake - Terry Prattchett would be SO proud!
'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' - and with this headline we're heading into the weekend.
The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation - I actually only know Peter Norvig as a Lisp hacker and Google search guru.
tweenbot - some stories are just nice.
[John J Marley Letters](http://www.imherhusband.talktalk.net/letters homepage.html) - for lovers of the bizarre. Always read the answers to the letters too!
British-French Nuclear Billiards in the Atlantic - err - what? Well, I don't know, but submarines with nuclear warheads and reactor propulsion should probably not ram into each other. British understatement: "Crashing a nuclear submarine is as serious as it gets."
English Russia » Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses - nuclear. lighthouse. ouch.
The flying car - let's be honest: when I look at typical road behavior, I really don't want flying cars to be built someday ...
Train drivers jump from freight train - "Because the brakes of their freight train failed, two train drivers jumped from the moving train on Monday evening (10.11.08) in Frechen. The train only came to a stop several kilometers later when it crashed into a warehouse in Cologne." - please what?
The Picodore 64 - a Commodore 64 PDA - from a modified toy (there were two joysticks and obviously a racing game with built-in C64).
Otto the octopus wrecks havoc - Hermit crabs juggle and spit out lamps. New Olympic discipline and Otto gets the gold medal.
JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript - ok, we can make the Internet, I've seen it all now ...
Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler - well, that's pretty crazy: a caffeine inhaler. I guess when you use it, any warranty on your body is void ...
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products - no comment.
Jennifer Daniel Dot Com Was Taken - hmm. Strange. But somehow interesting.
Tetris - in sed ... (I can't think of anything else to say)
Ravelry - a knit and crochet community - yep. Knitting and crocheting. As a community. Don't ask me why I find something like this (although, I can actually knit. But it was more of a reaction against all the knitting girls in school ...)
Future - nothing but a big fun | tagesschau.de - "Anyone who predicts the future for money or makes contact with the deceased must inform their customers beforehand that their services are 'solely for entertainment purposes and have not been experimentally proven so far'." - it would be good if this also applied to the various forecasting institutes!
How do I delete my Facebook account - this is really worth reading. Deactivating does not delete - but deleting is made so difficult by FB, it's beyond ridiculous.
Mystery about Saint-Exupéry solved?: "I deeply regret having killed the esteemed author" - the brother of Ivan Rebrov shot down Saint Expéry in the Second World War. And is quite obviously still proud of his "aviation achievements" and probably still thinks war pilots are great. Hmm. Absurd world.
Harsh criticism from Liechtenstein due to tax investigations - cute, how this carnival prince talks about "democratic states". Does he even know what democracy is, as a monarch? Of course, I understand him, since his entire business model only consists of "helping moneybags to rip off the tax authorities". Annoying when this operetta state is suddenly brought into the public eye in such an unpleasant way.
I love the Internet. And my genes. - time again to link to the Rebel Market. If the future is social-gen-sharing, and everyone can deduce nonsense from pseudo-scientific collections of data garbage, if future HR managers not only get the sexual preferences and the drunken remarks from the study period willingly served from the net, but also a genetic profile with absurd pseudo-interpretation, then a new boundary of complete stupidity on the net has definitely been crossed. And since it fits so well into the whole discussion, let's just ge-owled. I mean, Stasi 2.0 is nothing compared to what is voluntarily disclosed on the Internet ...
Japan wants to fly paper plane from International Space Station to earth - "the Japan folded paper plane association"
Australia to enforce a "rating system" on web, track users - Australia has now completely gone off the deep end. Age verification for 15+ content - so could the Internet be turned into an unsupervised children's playground. I mean, okay, Australia is a continent, but it has some island mentality somewhere. But that's really completely crazy.
Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope - "According to Williams (1949), the machines generally employed a 50 kv x-ray tube operating at 3 to 8 milliamps. When you put your feet in a shoe fitting fluoroscope, you were effectively standing on top of the x-ray tube. The only “shielding” between your feet and the tube was a one mm thick aluminum filter. Some units allowed the operator to select one of three different intensities: the highest intensity for men, the middle one for women and the lowest for children."
Carnival Association with TĂśV Seal - ISO certification is just a silly carnival event.
Warner Music CEO: We Were Wrong - huh? Are they finally realizing something?
Lawyers prohibit viewing the HTML code of their website - and linking is absolutely forbidden. Very naughty, these links ...
It Only Tuesday - "Not only do Americans have most of Tuesday morning to contend with, but all of Tuesday afternoon and then Tuesday night," National Labor Relations Board spokesman David Prynn said. "If our calculations are correct, there is a chance we are in effect closer to last weekend than the one coming up."
Ozbus, London to Sydney Bus Travel - Bus route. London-Sydney.
Tin-Foil-Hats - and their effect. Or something.
The Shakespeare Programming Language - oh. shit. Someone definitely had too much time and too much beer.
BrandweekNRX: Red Cross sued over its - Red cross! - uh. Sue the Red Cross over its symbol? They've completely lost it. If they've had the sign for so long - why are they only noticing the similarity now? I mean, the Red Cross has been around for a few years too ...
MathTrek: Cracking the Cube - they can solve the Rubik's Cube in 26 moves. I needed 26 seconds back then.
Japanese Watch Maker - fascinating watches.
The Church of the Latter-Day Dude - the dude abides.