A driver is being investigated by police after bragging on Twitter about knocking a cyclist off his bike. The Daily Mail in Britain reports that Emma Way, 20, boasted about her collision with a rider in Norwich. Writing under the name @emmaway20, she tweeted: “Definitely knocked a cyclist off his …
In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, a robotic insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped …
Five ancient copper coins and a map with an “X” might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history. Australian soldier, Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the Wessel Islands in WW2 to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches. While …
I love this guy. He should be back on Earth by now…what a trip!
So, I’ve never posted anything from a US talk show before, but this is pretty much the best thing I’ve seen this month. The context is: the Jay Leno Show has set up a prank where a news anchor presents a “live” feed from a petrol pump, with very funny …
Finally someone has used their deep pockets to fund a Batman Tumbler Replica, and this thing is one hell of a machine to say the least. The customizers at Team Galag invested a cool $1.6 million into making our dream their reality. The Tumbler is of course life size, and …
Cold, readily available drinks at music festivals are nothing short of paradise. Alternately, the prospect of having to queue tirelessly for food and drink while absenting yourself from the music is infuriating. So imagine a world where you never had to leave the stage – at the click of the …
More awesome than you think.
Turns out Tilda Swinton and David Bowie are not the same person after all…
To the discontent of many of Australia’s residents, a white power festival will be held for the Neo-Nazi population in a secret location in Queensland’s Gold Coast this May. The Annual Hammerhead Festival will be held on the 4th of May, by the Southern Cross Hammerskins – a Australian branch …
OK, so this could be a Tunesday submission but it’s also an insane little short film made by Sergey Valyaev for a Russian indie-punk band called Biting Elbows.
Oh dear god…at least there’s no autotune.
I am enjoying this gloomy new track from NCATBS.
Coca-Cola Amatil has won the right to dismantle a Northern Territory recycling scheme, but not before it got nasty and called in the po-po. Source
PHILADELPHIA: A court case over a fight that cost a man his eye has ended in a mistrial after he lost his prosthetic eye while giving evidence. One punch cost John Huttick his left eye during a fight with the alleged assailant, Matthew Brunelli, outside a pub in Philadelphia in …
Disney confirmed that it will make a number of spinoff films to sit alongside its previously announced sequel trilogy. Ain’t It Cool News reported earlier in the week that the first standalone project will centre on Jedi master Yoda, and Entertainment Weekly now claims to have the inside track on …
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww[/video] This is the first ever Xavier Rudd track I’ve actually liked.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBsypHzF3U[/video] Ok, I admit that I enjoyed this a teeny bit.
There is still an aura of mysticism that remains around that fateful ship and new photos to be published in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic magazine provide for the first time a sense of what the wreck looks like today. These new photographs, shot using state-of-the-art technology by …
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake, the biggest in the country for 15 years, rattled the far north of South Australia yesterday. Panicked residents of a small Australian outback town fled from their homes during the quake. Ernabella Anangu School deputy principal Tony Nicholls said the town’s 600 residents rushed out onto …