Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Antelope crashes into cyclist during race


Mountain-biker Evan van der Spuy, 17, was hit by a red hartebeest buck during a race at Albert Falls Dam in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The incident was filmed by his South African team mate, Travis Walker, who can be heard warning Van der Spuy to 'watch the buck'. Van der Spuy received hospital treatment but did not suffer serious injury.



Friday, September 16, 2011

Friday Tune



Trampled by Turtles - Wait So Long
[HT Infectious Greed]

Friday Media

Two guys climb a crane, high above La Defense, Paris. Nuts:



Cliff jumping in Europe [full screen it]:




MTB downhill 2011 (long but excellent) [full screen it]:

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Danny MacAskill. . . . Again


Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye.


Friday, September 2, 2011

Steve Jobs Quote

Steve Jobs quote:
When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Friday Tune

Copyright bullshiitake prevented me from embedding the youtube vid - so here's the link. . .

Red House Painters - Priest Alley Song

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

India - How Big ?

Previously I've posted on the sheer size of Africa and also the size of USA states' economies in relation to other countries. This time it's India turn (ripped from The Economist). Have a play with the interactive map.

As The Economist writes:

If Uttar Pradesh were to declare independence, it would be the world’s fifth most populous country (as the map below shows, it has about the same number of residents as Brazil). Yet its economy would only be the size of Qatar, a tiny oil-rich state of fewer than 2m people. That makes it poor on a per person basis. Despite India’s two decades of rapid growth, Uttar Pradesh’s GDP per head is close to that of Kenya. The map below presents country equivalents for India’s states and territories in terms of GDP, GDP per person (in PPP terms) and population.


Monday, June 13, 2011