A little refreshing randomness from around the globe
It’s a weapon of war that’s turned over a new leaf.
Tankballing is paintball, but with tanks. The paint pellets: 40mm. The site: a former WWII bombing range in Leicestershire, England. The weapon of choice: a retrofitted 17-ton war machine. Two hours will cost you as much as a few tanks of gas. Spectators are welcome.
The […]
They may be the most stylish carpenters in the world.
They are Journeymen - Gesellen. Since the 13th century, these young German tradesmen have gone ‘auf der Walz,‘ or taken to the road with little more than a walking stick and their tools. Then, as now, they always were their trademark, tailored Kluft: bellbottom pants, double-breasted […]
The Serpent Mother is apocalyptic, and beautiful.
Her metal skeleton stretches 168′ long, and she breathes fire. Her entire being is shot through with propane, which erupts into flame at forty-one distinct spots along her spine. The flames are controlled by audience participants. So is the hydraulic head, and jaws.
It was first seen at Burning Man. […]
The Republic of Molossia has a population of four.
It is presently in a state of perpetual martial law, courtesy of the ‘foreign menace over the border.’ This border encompasses all of fourteen and a half acres, most of which can be found just outside Dayton, Nevada. There resides President Kevin Baugh, his wife, two children, […]
It’s like the world’s largest jungle gym.
The City Museum in St. Louis has been pieced together with scraps of the past, all culled from within city limits. Fire engines, school buses, and aircraft fuselages are fused to the outside of an old shoe factory. Wrought iron slinkies, four feet wide, stretch from castle turret […]
Geeks do a lot of things: compile code, watch cartoons, and occasionally become billionaires by inventing, say, YouTube. They also read webcomics with near fanatical dedication, to the point that some authors have been able to quit their day job through reader donations alone.
The comic XKCD is a flagship of geek humor. Formerly a robot […]
If you ever want to watch TV with a baboon, go to college.
Moorpark College is the Harvard of exotic animal trainers. For two years, its students endure endless work days, far more science courses than most of them expected, and epic amounts of poo. But these diehard animal people endure those years with grace and […]
Every year in New York City, a five-foot penguin walks the streets.
He is actually half-penguin, half-chicken: “Chengwin.” And for whatever reason, this oversized Sesame Street hallucination has become an annual fixture in the streets of downtown Gotham. He always arrives with a cheering hipster mob, oftentimes with a live band in tow, to battle his […]
Parkour cannot be stopped. That, in fact, is the entire point: parkour is the French martial art of escape, of surmounting every obstacle in your path in the case of an emergency. It is also known as l’art du déplacement, ‘the art of displacement.’
Get from Point A to Point B as quickly and as effortlessly […]
