This entry definitely needs some citations to cover the what, why, how, and where because allegedly it claims that it's a park in Korea. I'm skeptical because I know my people don't roll like that. Japanese maybe. But not Koreans. If it is truly a park in Korea then I'm kinda mad right now that when I was there a few years back we weren't taken to see this place.
Either way, click after the jump for NSFW photos of these park sculptures.
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This is a good photo essay on the offices and people at Twitter, an online service I've been proselytizing about lately. It's a bit self-referential fluff job for a product that still has a limited audience, but I still found it an interesting read especially with the accompanying fantastic photos.
The number of Twitter users has grown in the past year, and during events that spark a lot of twittering--such as technology conferences--popular users are constantly posting "tweets" to thousands of people. This puts strain on the underlying message-routing architecture, which, the Twitter founders admit, wasn't built to do such heavy lifting."
It's kind of shocking that their architecture isn't very scalable. One would think that nowadays this would be a priority, particularly for a service like Twitter unless they set the bar for concurrent usage to be very, very, very low. They need to address its lack of scalability immediately to ensure the future growth and success of Twitter.
Read more here.
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Don't ask me about the route that led me to this fact (Damn you, Wikipedia!). Did you know that his-then wife Christie Brinkley painted the cover for Billy Joel's River of Dreams album?
Random I know. This whole entry is random. Your mom is random.
The Daily Mail seems convinced that the man in the photo above is Banksy, a "former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham."
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Update: This. is. on. every. website. and. blog. in. the. entire. Internets.
Me: What are you up to today? BC: Might bike down to Coney Island with Jeff later this afternoon... Can you borrow a bike from anyone?
Me: That sounds fun, but I have no bike tho.
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra. I'm never likely to go there.
- Billy Connolly
A heartwarming comic strip tale of a bee's attempt to help someone prepare for the spelling bee ends horribly. Truly horribly. [Thanks Clay]
This website dynamically mapped the spread of Wal-Mart across America using a green dot for each location starting in the early 60s with a couple stores in the Midwest. It starts slow but like a virus quickly and seemingly exponentially gathers steam. It's strangely beautiful and mesmerizing to watch. Like your mom. Oh snap.
I think my headline is pretty self-explanatory. In this local news broadcast segment a woman's boyfriend and his accomplice attempted to kidnap her to Mexico. What makes this story bizarre is that the accomplice and the guy's friend has NO NOSE and in the photo they show he really has no nose. Crazy, crazy white people.
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[Thanks....Paul]
This multi-security cam video of a failed theft of a convenience store is more hilarious than all the Oceans 11 movies added up, especially the very last scene. Watch the entire video as it gets more and more comical. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWn5pQRdzMk]
As my friend pointed out, the only thing that would have made this funnier is if he just had to pull the door to open it.
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Chairman Mao got booted from the 10 yuan (roughly $1.50) note and has been replaced with the Olympic stadium.
MAOH SNAP!
A Boeing 727 passenger jet has been sitting at a Vietnamese airport tarmac for the past six months and after a few months of investigating authorities can't locate the owner of it.
The aircraft flew several times after arriving at the airfield, transporting passengers from Siem Reap (Cambodia) to Hanoi and vice versa, but since then has been left idle at the airfield. Neither the crew nor owner can be found.Though the aircraft has a Cambodian flag on its fuselage, nobody has any information about an airline named Air Dream in Cambodia.
I'm sure someone can make a reference here to Lost. I can't because I've never seen a single episode of that show. I just know an airplane was involved in its "origin" story. You know what else? This 727 is "lost." In Vietnam. Which is where Lost is filmed. Actually it's filmed in Hawaii, I think. Which is closer to Vietnam than New York City.
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BARELY RELATEDLY
Check out what happened to the nose of this recent Northwest Airlines plane on a flight from the Motor City to Tampa. It looks "a bit like a beer cup smashed in after a football game."
Duh. I'm filing this story under "Things I Already Knew."
- The environment, burning enough fuel to power a car for a year in just one hour.
- Public safety: Even though private planes incur the same air-traffic control costs as commercial airliners, commercial planes pay for 95 percent of FAA air-traffic control costs in $2,015 in taxes per flight, while just accounting for 73 percent of air control capacity. Private planes only pay $236 per flight in taxes.
- Tax revenues: Private plane buyers can take a larger deduction their first year owning a new jet.
- The war on terror: The Department of Homeland Security IDs private planes as a particular risk.
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When I was in elementary school, I used to draw epic battles on the margins of my assignments and homework. The drawings often depicted hovering Apache helicopters firing their missiles at a massive Godzilla-Transformer hybrid rising out of the ocean while simultaneously stomping on attack submarines and slapping away battle cruisers. And oh yea, UFOs, always UFOs, and their death rays. This was the world I would lose myself in and try to illustrate. However, the eyes of the neutral observer probably just saw a lot of stick figures and overall messiness. But in my head, my drawings looked something like this. In other words, BAD ASS.
I've been over the graphic t-shirt phase of my life now for a couple years I think, but man, I saw this and immediately thought "I WANT THIS."
I would like to wear it most especially around the neighborhood I work which seems to be mecca for tourists, thanks to the double decker tour buses and their ticket selling minions, as well as the presence of Macy's, H&M, and Old Navy.
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