Category Archives: Random Stuff

Random thoughts, topics, and factoids you’ll be happy you read.

Chinese people now wearing a face bikini to protect faces form sun

The people of China are not known for their fashion forward sense, and the Face-Kini is as good an example as any.

Chinese people now wearing a face bikini to protect faces form sun

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In China, it’s the height of the tourist season for Qingdao’s famed beaches. But while many of the town’s visitors want to enjoy the sand and water, they’re not so wild about sunbathing. So they often resort to a local tradition: the face-kini, a sort of light cloth version of a ski mask.  More on this story…

It’s giving me daymares. I’ll stick to more traditional forms of sun protection.

Crazy news from this past week

Toddler Fight Club

Daycare Workers Arrested For Holding Toddler Fight Club

  • The first rule of Toddler Fight Club is you don’t coo about Toddler Fight Club. Story here.
  • Your tax dollars at work. Despite having no horses, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department employs a farrier (horseshoer). It’s a union job the city pays $29,245 in salary and about $27,000 in benefits for. Sound off!
  • Things are not always what they seem. Two people thought they were doing the right thing when they leaped out of their vehicle and rushed to the defense of what appeared to be a man assaulting a woman. Nope. Not what was happening. Read on…
  • The Aerofex hover vehicle recalls the futuristic look of Star Wars speeder bikes. Technology is getting freaky! Read more.

The Aerofex hover vehicle recalls the futuristic look of Star Wars speeder bikes.

Want to fake kill Osama bin Laden?

Bin Laden killed repeatedly in Twin Cities suburb game

Bin Laden killed repeatedly in Twin Cities suburb game

In St. Paul, Minnesota, a former Navy Seal, Larry Yatch, is offering people who fantasize about killing other people a chance to participate in a reenactment of the Seal raid that executed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani compound last year.

This isn’t a real military operation. It’s a high-end role-playing game. People pay $325 to re-enact the bin Laden raid. Although the mission is fake, Yatch, Sealed Mindset’s president, is a real Navy SEALs vet. He opened the 10,000-square-foot studio with his wife Anne in April. So far, 137 people have signed up to pretend to kill a man wearing a white robe and a fake beard.

They should try to capture him alive, unless he starts shooting back. “If he presents a lethal threat, take him out,” Yatch instructed. “I don’t want to have to write a letter to any of your parents, okay?”

The company offers 73 defense classes each month and “live scenario trainings” designed to mimic actual threats. Yatch has set up fake kidnappings, fake carjackings, and even a fake shooting by a disgruntled employee.

Read story from MPR.

Check out this Navy Seal stuff.
Books about Seals and Bin Laden.

Tight Rope Walking Between Two Moving Trucks Approaching a Tunnel

Volvo Trucks - The Ballerina Stunt

World record-holding highliner Faith Dickey battles the wind and vibrations of the road to walk the line between two speeding trucks. Will she make it before the trucks reach the tunnel and snap the rope? I honestly cannot believe what I just watched here.

The stunt was set up to show the precise handling of the new Volvo FH. Filmed on an unopened highway in Croatia in cooperation with Hollywood stunt director Peter Pedrero (James Bond, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean.)

Back-to-school essentials

If you went where I went, this is a back-to-school essential. Good luck America.

Back-to-school
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Click here for real back-to-school supplies.

10 Notorious Internet Hoaxes

10 Notorious Internet Hoaxes
Before you get fired up at McDonald’s and start sharing this with your friends and family, check your sources. This sign has been shopped and is a hoax. Internet pranksters rely on people like your gullible Mom or crazy uncle to spread this stuff.

Here is another example. It seems like every week on the Internet is Shark Week, with a steady stream of insane shark-attack stories or shark-sighting videos leading the viral news. But when this image made the rounds in June, people really went nuts. It was supposedly taken in a flooded shopping center in Kuwait where a shark tank had collapsed. Pretty scary, right? But of course, it was not real. The photo was legitimately of a flooded shopping center (in Toronto), but the sharks were added in for effect.

shark in mall

not real.

Here is a link to other classic internet hoaxes. Which ones have you fallen for? In the future, check Snopes first to see if the story has legs.

Thanks for sending Junior.
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‘American Horror Story’ Season 2 Update

AMERICAN-HORROR-STORY Lange

American Horror Story season 2 is still a couple months away from premiering, but the series creator Ryan Murphy revealed exactly where the second season of FX’s horror anthology will take place.

A recent article on Screen Rant reported the second season will move across the country to an institution for the criminally insane set on the East Coast in the 1960s. Jessica Lange will be running the institution, though no additional information about her character has been revealed.

As the body count from the first season began to rise, we all wondered exactly how American Horror Story season 2 would pick up. The creator has revealed that a new setting and cast would be introduced in the series’ second season – but it’s unclear whether the stars from last season would still be playing their same characters.

I am excited to see what they do next. American Horror Story season 2 will premiere October 2012.

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Earth, Jupiter and Venus as seen from Mars

From the surface of the red planet Mars, recent observations provide a view of the Earth, Jupiter and Venus (top down) in the sky. Stunning.

Earth, Jupiter and Venus as seen from Mars

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Spider Found Living In Woman’s Ear Canal

HOLY HELL! One of my nightmares has just occurred in real life. A woman in China complained of an itchy ear and was hoping doctors could treat her. When doctors took a look inside, they found a spider had crawled into her ear while she slept.

An X-ray photo of the woman’s ear was posted to Reddit by user Psycho0222 and is displayed below.

Spider Found Living In Woman's Ear Canal

Source: Reddit Psycho0222

Sleep tight!

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Famous album covers recreated with socks

Cool new site here features famous album covers that have been recreated using socks. Visit http://thesockcovers.tumblr.com/ for more.

Famous album covers recreated with socks