Instead of sitting in the watering hole and contracting horrifying diseases, Greg du Toit should have considered a remote control car. The brothers Burrard-Lucas created their “Beetle Cam” by rigging up a camera to a remote control car. They then took it to Africa to capture close up shots of animals, while staying out of the way of both harm and disease.

The camera was attacked by lions, but ultimately retrieved. Absent shots from inside a lion’s mouth, perhaps the most amusing shot is this one of a lion’s paws, presumably shot just prior to the device receiving its horrific mauling.

In addition to the first-person narrative linked above, you can read more about the entire project on the Burrard-Lucas’s blog.

Chad Ettmueller was hungry. He was hungry enough that the “Wicked” sandwich from Which Wich wasn’t enough, despite its five meats and three cheeses. So he ordered twice the meat, bringing his sandwich to a Dagwoodian ten servings of meat and three layers of cheese.

That was where the trouble started, because when he went to take his first bite, his jaw unhinged like a goddamned snake. Unlike a snake, however, he was unable to snap it back into place, despite punching himself in the face several times.

Ettmueller ultimately had to go to the hospital to have his jaw surgically manipulated back into place. Now mostly recovered, he’s good-natured about the whole thing, and has no plans to sue.

Like many people, Garrett Murray is stuck using Photoshop, and stuck with its frequent crashes. Unlike many people, Garrett takes the time to write long complaints in Adobe’s Crash Reporter, and they’re hilarious.

Luckily, I had just saved. I’ve been pretty lucky about that with Photoshop in the past – I’m an over-saver. I save all the time. Probably got into the habit because of applications with terrible stability patterns. You know, like your application. Photoshop. Also, Microsoft Word. Remember that junk? I’m sure you do. You probably refer to that as the “Adobe Photoshop of Word Processing” and laugh and laugh and count your money.

For decades, India and Bangladesh have bickered over who owns the small island of South Talpatti in the Bay of Bengal.Now, however, that dispute has been resolved.

New Moore Island [also known as South Talpatti] in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta. Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said.

“What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming,” said Hazra.

Thanks a lot, climate change.

If you were so inclined, the US Treasury would happily accept your donation to help pay down our nation’s debt.

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A More Worthy Cause

At the time of this writing, this site’s sidebar features a box detailing a run I’m doing in support of the Run To Home Base. Perhaps you’d like to join me in supporting a more worthy cause?

Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace is a great show of short historical tales. In the past, he’s talked about everything from the creation of the Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Fair to attempts to use bat bombs in World War II. The stories are always both fascinating and brief, and it’s well-worth subscribing to the podcast.

This quote comes from the most recent episode, on Donald Hornig babysitting the first atomic bomb before it was tested.

And while he wondered…about how the office pool would turn out, the one where physicists placed bets on the outcome of the test, ranging from “total dud” to “an explosion that would ignite all of the nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere, destroying all life on the planet”.

Good luck collecting on that.