This is How We Roll in India

Chillin' on the highway, New Dehli.

The reaction of the guys in the car is just about as funny.

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stray bullets

Green pools and upscale decay in California (via); Ralph Steadman answers your questions; Frank Deford suggests that Water-Thirsty Golf Courses Need to Go Green; and Dutch statisticians have established that Friday the 13th is actually safer than an average Friday.

Lagniappe: SecretTweet: anonymous Twitter posting; The Speed Trap Exchange (via); William S. Burroughs - The Cut Ups (ht); Watch a 500,000 volt electrical arc

Parkour Granny

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Man walks away from IED blast

This is surreal.



I don't think the guys in the truck were so fortunate.

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Transatlantic Tunnel complete? Telectroscope next?

do you believe in the telectroscope? reports:

I received a mysterious phone call at 7:00 a.m this morning from Paul St George.

He sounded tired, but elated. He urged me to come down to Tower Bridge to bear witness to the completion of the tunnel...

Tomorrow he will prepare the ground for the Telectroscope and he has agreed to answer any questions that people may wish to pose him about his project.

Anyone in the area, be there at one p.m. and have at it.

I'm not sold on this, just yet.

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Sand Fountain in Saudi Arabia

I have not been able to find any more information about this. Nothing in the news, nothing on the web except further iterations of what you'll find here.

From Kasimir1982:

Sand Fountain apparead in Al Ahsaa City, in Saudi Arabia. Reported from an Islamic Site.
Here is the author's comment I am JUST reporting : (English translation will follow)
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]فجأة تخرج نافورة من الرمل وصل إرتفاعها إلى 9 أمتار ،
وذلك في مدينة الأحساء شرق السعودية ...
على الفور هرعت فرق جيلوجية ومجموعة من علماء شركة أرامكو لمعاينة الحدث الغريب ...
وإلى الآن لم يصلوا إلى تفسير للحدث ...
غير أنهم أجمعوا على نظرية مفترضة وهي أن هذه أثقال في الأرض ولا بد من خروجها وفوران الرمل هو بداية لخروج هذه الأثقال ....
قال الله تعالى:-
(( واخرجت الارض اثقالها )) ...
أحد خبراء أرامكو توقع أن تكون هذه بداية لخروج معادن جديدة من نواة الأرض السحيقة...
والتي ستغير مسار البشرية ..
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Suddently, a 9-meter fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia.
Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !
But they agreed on a theory (...) that these are -what so called- burdens of the Earth.
Allah said in the Quran : "And the earth throws up her burdens (from within)" 99.2
Some scientists said this phenomenon will lead to apparency of new materials, which will change the humanity way of life ...
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p.s. my buddy Chris points out that anyone who has read Declare by Tim Powers, might have an idea what this is!

100 year-old Transatlantic tunnel nears completion

tiscali.co.uk:

Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more that a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.

If this is for real, this is astonishing news. The Telectroscope sounds cool enough, but I want to go into the tunnel!

Apparently, Paul St. George, using maps and drawings passed down through his family, is completing the tunnel from London to New York that his great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George started, but never finished, over a century ago. Once the tunnel is completed they say they will install the Telectroscopes. Mr. St George refuses to disclose the exact locations in London and New York where they will be situated, but rumor has it that they are near the Tower Bridge in London and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.

You can read their press release here.

There's a weblog covering the story, with quite a bit of detail.

Here's a brief interview with Paul St. George:



and another:



the Telectroscope?



video source

I don't know. I want to believe. We'll have to keep an eye on this story.

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Tornado Flips and Tosses Cars

One upside to ubiquitous surveillance is amazing footage.



A security camera at the S-and-M Equipment Company caught the tornado crashing through a parking lot. It only takes a few seconds.. But the twister tosses vehicles in all directions. Luckily.. No one was in any of these vehicles when the storm came through the town of Leighton, Alabama. And the good news for these vehicle owners is they shouldn't have any trouble convincing their insurance company of what happened. (vid)



hat tip

Igor Falecki - 5 year old drummer rocks it

Igor's YouTube page

Couldn't you just order them to stand up straight?

Daily Mail:

Officers of the People Paramilitary Police preparing for the Olympics are drilled on the parade ground with pins in their collars and crosses on their backs to ensure perfect posture.

via UniqueDaily.com

Boy survives 25,000 volt shock

Daily Mail:

A teenager was blown 25ft off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by a 25,000-volt electric shock.

Sam (Cunningham) was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots.


Later on that night his eyes were glowing and metal objects moved toward him...

via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Safety Tip #47: Why it's important to properly vent a tank car before emptying it

You Tube
via Cynical-C Blog

Bruce Lee Screen Test

One of a kind.

via suwaowa.log
(great blog)

Sunday Excursions: Sunday Papers

Sunday funnies:














From neatist on ImageShack
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(John) Calvin and (Thomas) Hobbes
From ~spacecoyote on deviantART
Buy a print!
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We know you read the funnies first. Now for some news:

They haul rhinos, auto parts, and luxury goods in jumbo jets that date to the Nixon administration. Meet the "freight dogs" — renegade airmen who keep the global economy aloft.

via linkfilter.net






(Photo: Lu Guozhong/Xinhua Photo/WpN)
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Chinese Spy ‘Slept’ In U.S. for 2 Decades

And now he's going to be in a different kind of "sleeper cell" for another couple of decades.

via the day they tried to kill me
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Teleportation, time travel and aliens - a vision of tomorrow today

Professor Michio Kaku has ruled out time travel for at least a few millennia, but believes invisibility cloaks and telepathy could be possible this century.

via Reality Carnival Unleashed
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A DIY tip from Felonius Ramblings:

Go Green or Go Home: Wipe Your Ass w/ 1 Piece of Toilet Paper

I don't think this is what Sheryl Crow had in mind.
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Finally, from the "I'd wager your Sunday paper doesn't have video" page:

UT friendly, The Presurfer, posted this incredible video.

El Caminito del Rey is a walkway pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Alora in Spain. It's in really bad shape and many have died walking it. Even though local authorities have closed off access, people still sneak in and give it a go.

I had a strong visceral reaction watching this video, but I have height issues.


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Have a great Sunday and come back fresh and ready for more Uncertain Times.

The Amazing Rubber Woman

This is almost disturbing.



No, it is disturbing.

Rubber woman make you take your junk home in a paper bag.

YouTube page
JH scores again

Dog walks on two legs

It's not really my style to post doggy/kitty kinda stuff, but this one is exceptional.

Meet Faith, who was born without two front paws.

All I can do is applaud.

from Fun Hight
via Random Good Stuff

Extreme Street Soccer: Is it real? (vid)

What do you think? Some say it's fake, some swear it's real. Either way, it's amazing.

Here's The Making Of...



I'm going to have to go with real. They probably had to do a shitload of takes.

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