Gadling's got a quick guide to reading the Cyrillic alphabet in a few minutes. I know how to say bar (бар) and vodka (Bо́ДKA) in Cyrillic. Just need to know beer.
Boston.com's Big Picture comes up trumps again with its photos of Earth Hour. You can click on each photo of the famous landmarks to 'turn off the lights'.
There has been a monthly competition running for a while on this blog where you can win some free paintballing tickets for use within the UK. This month's competition runs out tomorrow so if you want to win some tickets read more here.
An article about a study of the decline of odd/funny British names in the UK.
A study found the number of people with the name Cock shrank to 785 last year from 3,211 in 1881, those called Balls fell to 1,299 from 2,904 and the number of Deaths were reduced to 605 from 1,133.
People named Smellie decreased by 70 percent, Dafts by 51 percent, Gotobeds by 42 percent, Shufflebottoms by 40 percent, and Cockshotts by 34 percent, said Richard Webber, visiting professor of geography at King's College, London.
Photos of the Earth taken from 30,000m (19 miles). They were taken by a group of students who strapped a camera to a weather probe they constructed themselves.
Containing five beef patties, five slices of cheese, nearly a cup of chilli, corn chips, salsa and an 8-inch sesame-seed bun, the 4lb, $20 burger server at Comstock Park, Mich. weighs in at 4,800 calories! Those manly enough to eat it all in one sitting get a free t-shirt! Link
NBC BayArea has a piece on a uniquely shaped cathedral in San Francisco that produces a shadow that resembles a boob.
As drivers enter San Francisco via the Octavia Street off-ramp, and they crest the small hill at Haight street, if their trip is timed just right and the sun is out, they will be greeted by one of the funniest landmarks this city has to offer: the two o'clock titty.
Because of the unique design of St. Mary Cathedral, and the positioning of it geographically, a distinct shadow that resembles a woman's breast is cast both in the morning and in the afternoon on the West and East sides of the church, respectively.
Anyone for a nice, refreshing placenta drink? It's made with real horse placenta.
According to the manufacturer's website, the drink 'contains 30,000 mg of 100% undiluted horse-origin placenta and promotes cellular metabolism from deep within to produce a firm, moist complexion.'
Apparently it has a fresh flavour that's easy to drink. I'll have to take their word on that. Buy yours here! [Thanks Reggie035s]
Techradar.com has posted some original sketches and screenshots showing how Windows 7 may have looked. According to Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, there were over 400 sketches for the desktop experience alone.
The "great" Blue Hole on Lighthouse Reef Atoll is a popular diving spot off the coast of Belize. Visible in a flyover, the hole is about 1,000 feet in diameter and 412 feet deep. The late Jacques Cousteau and a filming crew explored the underwater cave whose roof collapsed about 10,000 years ago.
This half inch long sea spider is an amazing form of life. It has no lungs or gills, transmitting gasses directly through it's slender exoskeleton. The digestive tract extends down it's legs and is clearly visible here as snaky, colored tubes inside the transparent exoskeleton.
You may have noticed that there is a competition running on the side of the site to win free Paintball tickets. The competition will be running every month until the end of May. The competition is easy to enter and you can find out more details here.
A small bat was spotted hitching a lift on the space shuttle that launched on Sunday.
NASA had hoped the bat would fly away before the spacecraft's Sunday evening liftoff, but photos from the launch show the bat holding on for dear life.
A Philippines plane with 80 passengers aboard was seconds away from
a crash when a man teaching his girlfriend to drive sped across the
runway as the aircraft landed, newspapers reported on Monday.
The Cebu Pacific plane touched down in an airport in the central Philippines but had to take off again when the pilot saw the couples' van crossing the run.
The "instructor" has been detained for questioning. [via]
I'm going to start learning learning some basic Welsh (I've got the books and CD ready) and am curious as to how many people who read my site can speak Welsh. If you can speak Welsh, feel free to leave your email/Twitter ID so that I can pester you whilst learning.
TorrentFreak has an interview with Mininova and some behind the scenes photos of their office in the Netherlands. I always imagined big torrent sites being run by a bunch of guys in their bedrooms but Mininova is a tax paying company with revenues of over $1m.