Poo-Ping Palace Restaurant. This can serve as an example of why you really want to have an English-speaking person look over your company name when you’re about to set up a business in the USA.
Washing your hands, doggy-style!
Chongqing’s bum-shaped public toilet sinks. Now THAT’s a way to remember proper hygiene!
Apparently I’m correct in wanting to drink the stuff all day long.
Scientists demonstrate the best way of using caffeine. Don’t binge in the morning, just stretch out your consumption throughout the day.
Geek tries iPhone, fails to be impressed.
The iPhone is great! (for everyone else). The drawbacks are, as expected, the poor network the phones are saddled with, as well as the lack of a physical keyboard… which is pretty much what many have expected since the product was announced. Not that Apple won’t sell a boatload as soon as it becomes available, though…
That familiar high-pitched roar…
It’s Formula 1 weekend here in Montreal and I’m working from home. All day I’ve been hearing the din of Formula 1 cars taking laps a couple of miles away. Exciting!
And then they say censorship doesn’t work…
Chinese paper publishes tribute to Tinananmen Square victims because the clerk was completely unaware of the massacre. That’s pretty much the definition of irony right there…
This is what happens to you in the US when you’re not rich and famous.
Quadriplegic man sentenced serving jail term for possessing a small amount of pot dies in prison of a real medical condition. If he’d been some rich famous bitch faking illness he would have been sent home, presumably… that’s America’s two-tier justice system for ya.
Pictures of life and places in Japan as they existed 100 years ago.
Herbert Geddes’s photos of Japan taken circa 1910. The most fascinating thing for me is how many of the places in the ‘Architecture’ section I recognize from my trip last year, and that they’re still completely recognizeable. A lot of the ‘Agriculture’ pictures also show how Spartan Japanese life used to be; they seem to come from the Hakone/Mount Fuji region.
Ultimately it all makes sense, and those left alive live happily ever after.
The Armageddon Flowchart. Needs slight updating as Jerry Falwell is already having his bottom roasted in the Gehenna, but otherwise it’s pretty much spot-on…
The ride of his life, indeed!
Man’s wheelchair becomes stuck to semi’s grille, becomes front-row seat for a four-mile wild ride. I’m imagining a sort of “Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove” kind of scenario here…