Sand animation is the art of storytelling through continuously created and recreated images in sand, and there may be no one better at it than Kseniya Simonova. In the video above, she steals the show on Ukraine’s equivalent of the America’s Got Talent TV show, and has the judges and audience in tears as […]
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ukrainian artist bends sand to her storytelling will
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: art · beautiful · curio · europe · history · holy crap · images · movies/tv/video · neato · russia · sad · war
iran confiscates nobel prize
November 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This summer, the Iranian government brutally suppressed citizen unrest following an election that incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad won in a landslide. The consensus — on the left, on the right, and everywhere in between — is that the election was rigged.
Five months later, the anti-Ahmedinejad protests have become more muted — probably due in […]
Tags: do something · election · holy crap · iran · law and order · middle east · news · politics · sad · scary
the biggest blabbermouths in congress
August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
How brilliant is this interactive little site?
Well, it can tell you that Washington, D.C.’s lone legislator used a meager 35,679 words in 2008 — enough for a long-ish novella. In comparison, California’s 57 representatives spoke exactly 1,346,968 words — equivalent to 33 regular full-length novels, or about two and a half times the length […]
Tags: americas · crazy · design · government · holy crap · language · neato · sad · usa
afghanistan quarantines its only pig (also, everyone calm the hell down)
May 8th, 2009 · No Comments
So the posting here has been a little slow for the last week or so — mainly because the rest of my life has been anything but. I’ve got reams of work to plow through and don’t even really have time to be posting right now, but this story was exactly the kind of […]
Tags: asia · crazy · curio · darn tootin' · dumb · fauna · holy crap · india · irony · medicine · news · opinion · religion · sad · usa
reality show contestants compete to keep their real-life jobs
April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
It’s a sign of time times — the economy’s in the toilet, America lost 694,000 jobs in March, and a three-bedroom bungalow in Detroit will set you back a cool $500. The natural response to all this? A reality show, of course.
And no, Donald Trump isn’t in it.
Proving yet again that America will […]
Tags: americas · dumb · media · movies/tv/video · pop culture · sad · usa
the father of reggae you’ve never heard of
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
If Joe Higgs’s “There’s a Reward” doesn’t send shivers up your spine, you don’t have one.
Widely regarded as the father of reggae, Higgs grew up in Kingston’s famous Trenchtown ghetto and was a major influence on a generation of reggae musicians, including some guy named Bob Marley. He died of cancer in December 1999 […]
Tags: americas · beautiful · history · music · obit · sad
looks like the vegetarians were right…
March 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Much as I hate to admit it.
A new study involving half a million people has found that eating just 4 ounces of red meat or cold cuts each day makes middle-aged and elderly folks 30% more likely to die within a decade. Daily doses of poultry and fish actually decrease your chances of death […]
Tags: food · holy crap · medicine · news · sad
“unbowed and unafraid”: reporter writes own obituary just before assassination
January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
From the inspirational self-authored obituary of Lasantha Wickramatunge, editor-in-chief of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader newspaper, written shortly before he was shot and killed on his way to work:
It is well known that I was on two occasions brutally assaulted, while on another my house was sprayed with machine-gun fire. Despite the government’s sanctimonious assurances, there […]
Tags: asia · censorship · do something · government · journalism · law and order · media · news · obit · sad · scary
happy birthday elvis, and other neat-o tidbits
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Born on January 8, 1935, Elvis Presley would have been 74 years old today. Other notable events on this day:
1835: For the only time in U.S. history, the national debt is exactly zero dollars. Today’s debt is just over $10.6 trillion, or about $35,000 for every man, woman and child in the country.
1867: […]
Tags: curio · drugs · finance · government · history · money · music · obit · sad · stats · torture
the finest songstress you’ve never heard of
January 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Eva Cassidy was born in Maryland in 1963 and worked the Washington, D.C. club circuit in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Her takes on classics like “People Get Ready” (above) and “Fields of Gold” blew away audiences and put her on the local map, and her one-of-a-kind voice led to work with Chuck […]
