Category: Funny and weird stuff

  • These guys thought of everything

    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

  • Scared of heights?

    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…

  • Ballmer uses a Mac?

    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…

  • Video: Exploding wind turbine

    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 .

  • Gizmodo editor gets banned from CES

    Lots of members of the press try to have some fun at CES but some people go a bit too far. Gizmodo apparently crossed the line last week when they shut down dozens of LCD displays with some kind of universal remote: CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers…