Archive for May, 2007
Friday: Engrish.com
Friday, May 11th, 2007Some might think that making fun of someone’s poor English skills is mean, childish and unfair.
And they would be right.
So I present to you Engrish.com, a collection of “humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design”.
Video Wednesday: High Voltage Cable Inspection
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007So they fly this inspector out on a chopper and he then climbs onto live(!) power lines and proceeds to crawl across them, presumably inspecting the cables for damage.
(The owners of the video don’t want to allow embedding it, so you will have to click through.)
Here Without You Acoustic
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Jwin is a interweb music star. You have been holding back on us…
Mystery revealed: Poppy quarter led to U.S. spy warnings
Monday, May 7th, 2007Dear US sooper sekirt contractors, yes other currencies do look different then yours.
WASHINGTON — An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department’s false espionage warning earlier this year, The Associated Press has learned.
The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
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