Posted in Funny and weird stuff on Jun 8th, 2008
German waterpark Aqua Magis in Plettenberg is going to open a unique waterslide with a looping. It sounds pretty extreme but if you examine some of the pictures it looks pretty safe IMO, it’s far from a complete vertical loop. The slide is 12.4 meters high and has a topspeed of around 65km/h.
Some guys and [...]
Posted in Funny and weird stuff on May 20th, 2008
Hungarian college kid with a white “Microsoft = Corruption” t-shirt tries to give Steve Ballmer the egg-treatment, but fails miserably:
Posted in Funny and weird stuff, Personal Ramblings on May 19th, 2008
Last week when I bought a new boardshort from DC Shoes I was pretty suprised to find a hard object in the right pocket of my short. Turns out the boardshort features an integrated wax comb bottle opener! Pretty cool.
Also, congratulations Carmen! My girlfriend finished the Start-2-run 10 kilometer training scheme on Friday
Posted in Funny and weird stuff on May 7th, 2008
I wouldn’t like to walk on the Caminito del Rey lol:
In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway took four years; it was finished in [...]
Posted in Funny and weird stuff on Apr 28th, 2008
Looks like Steve Ballmer may have used a Mac to give a presentation on Business Leadership and Digital Innovation for Future Graduated at the university of Louvain in Belgium last week.
I can’t say for sure whether the Mac was really used by Ballmer as I wasn’t there but some folks claim it was just a [...]
Posted in Funny and weird stuff on Mar 19th, 2008
This video was shot about a month ago in Denmark. The braking mechanism of this turbine was malfunctioning and a storm caused the blades to spin so fast that that the turbine exploded. Fortunately no one got hurt.
Now I know why I don’t want a wind mill in my back yard .
