What is eaten in one week around the world

I first saw these pho­tos early in 2008. They are from a book called “Hun­gry Planet” by Pete Men­zel. You can find out more about his photo essays on his web­site and through this arti­cle from NPR’s Michele Norris.

Ger­many: The Melander fam­ily of Bargte­heide
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07

United States: The Revis fam­ily of North Car­olina
Food expen­di­ture for one week $341.98

Italy: The Manzo fam­ily of Sicily
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11

Mex­ico : The Casales fam­ily of Cuer­navaca
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 1,862.78 Mex­i­can Pesos or $189.09

Poland : The Sobczyn­scy fam­ily of Konstancin-Jeziorna
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 582.48 Zlo­tys or $151.27

Egypt : The Ahmed fam­ily of Cairo
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 387.85 Egypt­ian Pounds or $68.53

Ecuador : The Ayme fam­ily of Tingo
Food expen­di­ture for one week: $31.55

Bhutan : The Nam­gay fam­ily of Shingkhey Vil­lage
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 224.93 ngul­trum or $5.03

Chad : The Aboubakar fam­ily of Brei­d­jing Camp
Food expen­di­ture for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Transform your hoodie into a computer sleeve

Yes, no need for pricy Crum­pler com­puter sleeves, your hoodie does the job and even sup­ports your street credibility!

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Prague. Praha. Prag.

Prag. Praha. Prague.

In the light of recent events

In the light of recent events / aus aktuellem Anlass

Alligator style

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World War II — by Urban Dictionary

“Some of the World War II guys in ‘Call of Duty’ have, like, for­eign accents… what’s up with that?”

For all of you lazy ass stu­dents: Here is a brief review of  World War II by the Urban Dic­tio­nary. For more detailed infor­ma­tion go ask your 9^th grade his­tory teacher.

Ger­many invades Czecho­slo­va­kia.
Britain & France tell them to stop that bull­shit.
Ger­many invades Poland.
(Rus­sia also invades Poland from the other side: every­body for­gets this.)
Britain & France declare war. This is the ‘offi­cial’ kick-off.
Italy, Bul­garia, Hun­gary, & Roma­nia all join the Ger­man side. (Every­body for­gets the last three.)
Axis forces go through Europe like vin­daloo through a colostomy.
Nazis exter­mi­nate Jews, gays, gyp­sies, & the dis­abled. (every­body remem­bers the jews but for­gets the rest.)
UK holds out.
Rus­sia & the USA don’t do shit.
Entire divi­sions of Dan­ish, Bel­gian, Dutch, Nor­we­gian, French & Ser­bian vol­un­teers join the Axis armies & SS. (every­body for­gets this & to lis­ten to them now, they were all in the fuck­ing resis­tance, which must have been MASSIVE.)
Axis forces invade Rus­sia. Sud­denly the Rus­sians don’t think it’s funny any more.
Japan joins the Axis & bombs Pearl Har­bor.
Sud­denly the US doesn’t think it’s funny any more.
The USA tools up the world, ’cause it’s got more fac­to­ries than every­body else put together, & they’re out of bomber range.
Axis runs out of steam in Rus­sia, cause Russia’s enor­mous & bloody freez­ing.
Allies invade on D-Day… 5 land­ings: 2 British, 2 Amer­i­can, 1 Cana­dian. (every­body for­gets the Cana­di­ans.)
Hitler ends up smoul­der­ing in a ditch. Rus­sians find the body & con­firm he only had one ball. Seri­ously.
The US decides invad­ing stuff is a pain in the ass and invents the atom bomb instead. Drops two buck­ets ‘o sun­shine on Japan.
Rus­sians steal half of Europe.
UK’s spent almost every penny it had.
US starts telling every­body how it was all about them, & 64 years later is still doing so.

Magnet Accident

Here some geek stuff: Mag­net­nerds

The so called Neodymium Mag­nets are cur­rently the strongest type of per­ma­nent mag­net avail­able in the world. That this is not always just plain fun expe­ri­enced a Dutch guy at his own’s fig­ure. Two of those mag­nets col­lided over a disc­tance of 20 inches (50 cm) and smashed his finger!

That Sun­day night I placed on of them a bit in line with one of the oth­ers but still within a safety dis­tance (I thought) !!!  When I rotated the mag­net the other raised it self upwards due to the same poles. I know that I thought (ooops … take care) and before I knew it the one that raised itself upwards turned around and within a split sec­ond the two mag­nets col­lided to each other with the top-part of my fin­ger between them. Due to the bru­tal force my fin­ger was splashed and pushed out between the mag­nets leav­ing skin and my com­plete nail between the two mag­nets. The col­li­sion was so strong that on the car­pet I found only some drops of blood spread around the magnets.

Read the whole story! (Warn­ing: graphic and objec­tion­able content)

Obama LSD Blotter

Now, this is true Hope & Change:

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