Strange and mad Soviet monument in Bulgaria, now abandoned.
“If Blofeld was a real person… he would definitely live here…”
http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/
Ruby Badland
A subaltern’s love song - by Sir John Betjeman
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn,
Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun,
What strenuous singles we played after tea,
We in the tournament - you against me!
Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy,
The speed of a swallow, the grace of a boy,
With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won,
I am weak from your loveliness, Joan Hunter Dunn
Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn,
How mad I am, sad I am, glad that you won,
The warm-handled racket is back in its press,
But my shock-headed victor, she loves me no less.
A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
Eric Whitacre composed a piece, then put the score, and a video of himself conducting thin air, on Youtube. He invited people to record their voice parts and send them in to him, then created a 2,000-strong worldwide choir from them. Gorgeous.
A book igloo - beautiful!
David Mitchell encapsulates the hysteria surrounding the fairly unremarkable fact of football games being played…
I discovered the badass honey badger a long, long time after everyone else (40+ million hits). But now I’ve named a game after him and love him to bits.
Brian Butterfield - the world's worst website?
All the worst crimes against good web design committed joyfully on one website. It’ll give you a headache if you look too long.
Grow a hamburger in a petri dish?
I try to limit the meat I eat (enviro and welfare reasons). I’m trying to work out whether if meat was grown from stem cells in a lab, I’d feel happier eating it. I think I might.
War Horse in cartoons
An illustrated review of War Horse.
“In case you’re unfamiliar with the genre, EVERY horse movie is about a plucky young person forming a special bond with an otherwise difficult and unruly horse. Because that’s the dream, for a wild creature to totally trust you and become your buddy. It’s the ultimate flattery.
It’s also the ultimate disappointment when you take riding lessons and your horse doesn’t care about you and tries to rub you off on a tree.”
Is this the car of the future? Electric, you can fit 3 in one parking space, and you get to climb out of the windscreen every day…
Japanese schoolgirls play swing - if this don’t get your feet tapping, nothing will.
A litre of light…
How to make a light bulb using bleach, water and an old soda bottle. It’s lighting up slums in the Philippines.
Alan A’Dale - Pete and Dud’s funniest sketch IMHO.
- It took me a while to get the point of atozherbs’ tumblr, but when I did, oh how I laughed. Who knew herbs could be such fun?
Virgin Media lose a potential customer. Me.
