Failed-chute skydiver
From Boing Boing:
Video of failed-chute skydiver surviving 12,000 foot fall
Amazing first person helmet-mounted video of a skydiver who fell 12,000 feet with a failed chute and lived.
Category: Stuff
front seat driver with an attitude
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_germany_satnav
A 46-year-old German motorist driving along a busy road suddenly veered to the left and ended up stuck on a railway track — because his satellite navigation system told him to, police said on Sunday.
The motorist was heading into the north German city of Bremen “when the friendly voice from his satnav told him to turn left,” a spokesman said.
“He did what he was ordered to do and turned his Audi left up over the curb and onto the track of a local streetcar line. He tried to back up off the track but got completely stuck.”
i hope he washed his hands
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said Friday they were hunting a man who stole a urinal from a pub toilet.
The suspect walked into the Royal Oak pub in Southampton, on the English south coast, ordered half a pint of beer and then made several visits to the men’s toilet.
There he carefully removed a white urinal from the wall, stuffed it into a rucksack and was captured on closed circuit television walking out with the bulging sack on his back.
"Thank you…I LOVE Potatoes!"
The Corporate Scrooge Contest Results
America’s worst office Christmas parties, gifts, and bonuses.
“During my time with the company as a consumer electronic service engineer, the annual Christmas bonus given to all employees was a bag of potatoes,” he writes. Apparently a relative of the boss owned a potato farm.
http://www.slate.com/id/2155906
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Usability in the Movies — Top 10 Bloopers
The way Hollywood depicts usability could fill many a blooper reel. Here are 10 of the most egregious mistakes made by moviemakers.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html
but is it legal in Scrabble???
“Macaca” named most politically incorrect word
The word “macaca,” used by outgoing Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia to describe a Democratic activist of Indian descent who was trailing his campaign, was named the most politically incorrect word of the year on Friday by Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that studies word usage.