Forbidden Palace or Google Censorship
The newly built four-stories high palace in the suburbs of Moscow was wiped out from the face of the Earth… Well, not the actual Earth but Google Earth. Apparently, the forbidden palace owner and Russian natural gas and oil monopoly Gazprom CEO Aleksey Miller has enough power and money to convince Google to censor one of their most successful products.
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Buggy Skies
Windows error message is floating in the air on a dark misty night. What’s wrong with the sky?
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Wreked Tesla Roadster
Last week we have lost one of the rarest cars on our planet yet - all electric Tesla Roadster. Fortunately, we have 699 (and counting) more. So not a big deal for an electric cars industry but huge disappointment for one unlucky Danish Tesla owner.
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Pagan Baseball Bat
Baseball bats are illegal in Russia, as they are considered to be a ‘cold weapon’. So the Russian craftsmen are carving Slavic pagan gods on the bats to keep the police eyes away. It makes bat not the bat but the religious symbol. Of course, you can’t play baseball with such bat, but nobody cares, because nobody play baseball in Russia anyway. Baseball bats are just considered to be a ‘cold weapon’ there.
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Most WTF Harry Potter tattoos
The fans of JK Rowling’s story about magician boy (duh, am I learn it right?) are young (mostly) and crazy. What a greate combination for a good source of WTF.
These are simply ridiculous but the further the better:
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Magic Tap Fountains
Yes. I spelled the title right. You probably saw one of these fountains like floating in the midair water taps cut off the pipe. Did you know that such magic tap fountain (whichever one of them) is not unique? There are three such awesome fountains on our planet. Here you can see all three magic taps:
This is most popular one - The Magic Tap Fountain of Aqualand Bahia de Cadiz in Spain. The two more:
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Somalian Blogging
Who are they? What do they do there? What grabbed their attention and made them get their cameras out?
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Foam River
Yesterday, somebody spilled some foaming agent into the tiny river in the center of Moscow, Russia. Even such a small amount of surfactant (the one commonly used by the fire brigades) was enough to cover almost all the river with thick white foam. Autumn winds teared foam away and in a several minutes the banks of the river was covered with large chunks of foam. More photos below:
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Olli Erkkila Forkless Bike
Olli Erkkilä is a young but prominent designer from Finland. His Forkless bike is a graduation project he made for the Institute of Design of Lahti, Finland.
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Pedal Powered Laptop
Somebody found a way how to bring OLPCs (One Laptop Per Child - a project of equipping schools in developing countries with affordable Linux-based laptops) to the rural areas of Afghanistan where electricity is still a luxury.
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