All posts with 'Culture' tag
Pakistanis In Space
Kenny Irwin on Flickr has extreamely fascinating photostream. In his artworks the golden age of Pakistan space program depicted (it should start someday in a five hundred years from now). Pakistanis space truckers with Allah in their hearts meet the Star Wars…
Read More..>>Language Usage Statistics From Wikipedia
There are a lot of different statistics on world language usage published already. Some of them using pretty much data from the very official sources and some of them are just extrapolations. People like to know that their native language is used by millions other people on the Earth or vice versa - rare language […]
Read More..>>Faces of Africa
You has a hundred people but the food enough only for ten of them. What should you do?
Ask for food for 90 people.
Ask for a gun and 90 cartridges.
Giant Van Gogh in Goodland, Kansas
There is a small town in Kansas - Goodland - surrounded by sunflowers fields and cut apart by I-70 highway. It is a typical Kansas town with one giant difference. It has Van Gogh. Though just a reproduction but the huge one.
A 24 by 32 foot reproduction of Van Gogh’s “3 Sunflowers In A Vase” […]
Read More..>>Stockholm Subway
“The Stockholm Subway is sometimes called a long art exhibition.” (c) vargklo
Näckrosen (”The Water Lily”) subway station in Stockholm. Made like water lily pond on the roof and walls.
Read More..>>Zimbabwe Inflation
10 million Zimbabwean dollars and the grocery market prices in Harare. Photos by Bishop Asare / EFE and Reuters respectively.
Being under the Mugabe’s regime for over a twenty years Zimbabwe (a not so small and pretty populated African country situated to the north of South Africa) experienced the most crazy inflation in XXI century word. […]
What’s causing traffic jams
This is time lapse webcam looking at the heavy loaded traffic roundabout in the center of Romanian capital city of Bucharest. Some bright minded guy on the SUV wanted to save a couple of seconds trying to overtake the stream driving by the tram line. Bad luck! He has lost a couple of hours and […]
Read More..>>iPod, iPhone unlocking service
As popularity of the recent Apple products such as iPod and iPhone grows in some third-world countries a lot of small businesses offer unlocking services for the ‘gray’ imported devices. Since no official mobile phone companies have iPhone on their shelves this is the only way to get one there.
Photo by NL
Read More..>>No more magic mushrooms in Amsterdam
Boing Boing linking to BBC’s story about magic mushrooms ban in the Netherlands. Sad news.
The Netherlands used to be the only country in the world where government haven’t abused people with the stupid precepts on what they should do and what they shouldn’t with their own lives and with their own bodies. The Netherlands […]
Dumbledore is gay? SFW
So Dumbledore is gay. I’d say So f***ing what? Who really cares?
JK Rowling could do with her characters anything she wants. She is the author so she have author’s right. Dumbledore exists only in her imagination (and later in the imaginations of her books readers). She could kill him, thrill him, kiss him with another […]