We’ve all heard the stories about the man that mailed himself to his destination instead of buying a plane ticket because it was cheaper. Well even though a lot of these are urban myths, it turns out there are actually a couple of documented cases of people parceling themselves up and sending themselves through the [...]
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People that mail themselves
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
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OpenCola
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
The name is probably exactly what you think it is. The world’s first open source soft drink. How you may ask can a coke be open source? I was wondering the same thing so I checked out their very own opencola wikipedia article. Turns out it’s quite simple. OpenCola is an open source drink because [...]
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Punkeydoodles Corners
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve seen some odd town names in the past (mostly rude ones) but
Punkeydoodles Corners is about as weird as them come. Not only is Punkeydoodles Corners a weird town name, it also has a history of the sign post being stolen, which I am not really that surprised about. I would probably steal it myself [...]
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Pickled Dragon
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
When I saw the title of this wiki article it really grabbed my attention. Apparently it was supposed to have been created by the Germans in the 19th century. The pickled dragon in a jar was given to the British natural history museum and was supposed to fool them into believing it was [...]
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Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Who would have thought that a simple funny T-Shirt could stir up so much controversy? That’s exactly what the T-Shirt with the slogan Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them did. So much so that it actually sparked national debated and caused the t-shirts to be removed from shops. Of course as [...]
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Guy Goma - The BBC Tech Interview Mistake
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
This mistake by the BBC news was a classic but it’s non the less impressive to see that Guy Goma got his own wikipedia page. It looks like Guy got his 15 mintues and then some more. The mistake started when Guy went to the BBC for a job interview (it was originally [...]
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Toliets in Japan
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
What better way to start off this blog than a post about the toilets in Japan. Yep, welcome to the wierd world of wiki’s. Hard to believe that people have created a wiki page about the toilets in Japan (and quite a long page at that) but it’s true. If you read [...]
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