Village of Joy has put together a great list feauturing fifty strange building from across the planet. The one below (Nakagin Capsule Tower) reminds me of some of the buildings that appeared later in the awesome classic game “Transport Tycoon”:

D’oh the website broke. You can try the link here, but it says their bandwidth quota has been exceeded. Might possibly work next month?

I bet we all know about some of these accidents (they’re all well publicised and known), but have you ever wondered how much money these accidents cost? Funnily enough wrecked exotics (A website that’s specialty is wrecked exotic sports cars) has put together an interesting list of the top ten most costly accidents in history. Here’s an interesting one I didn’t know about (and it’s only number 7 in terms of cost).

Here we have our first billion dollar accident (and we’re only #7 on the list). This B-2 stealth bomber crashed shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on February 23, 2008. Investigators blamed distorted data in the flight control computers caused by moisture in the system. This resulted in the aircraft making a sudden nose-up move which made the B-2 stall and crash. This was 1 of only 21 ever built and was the most expensive aviation accident in history. Both pilots were able to eject to safety.

You can read the full list here, though number two and one are pretty easy to guess.

I’d honestly never heard any of these before, but I do have to say I’m impressed concerned by how violent some of them can be. Take for intstance the following, from the Algerian anthem:

We swear by the lightning that destroys, By the streams of generous blood being shed

When we spoke, none listened to us, So we have taken the noise of gunpowder as our rhythm, And the sound of machine guns as our melody

Hmm.. They take their wars very seriously. Maybe Vietnam’s is a bit more friendly. Let’s see…

Our flag, red with the blood of victory, bears the spirit of the country.

Uhh.. I think I might just reconsider international travel for the rest of my life now. Oh, these and a few others (with hilarious commentary) can be read over at cracked.

Cracked has put together yet another fascinating list, this time of urban legends which are damned creepy and happen to be true.

A young man is dropping off groceries at the house of an eccentric old lady when he notices an old photo that makes the hair on his arms stand on end. The photo’s normal enough–a young boy in his Sunday best–but something just seems off. He asks the old lady who it is. “Oh,” she replies, trying to stuff a cat in the dishwasher “isn’t that beautiful? You can hardly tell he’s dead.”

I’m deeply disturbed. Read the whole list here via cracked.

Have you ever wondered what that largest, most destructive nuclear weapon ever detonated was? That would be the Tsar Bomba (Russian Царь-бомба) developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Thankfully this thing never went into service, it was only a demonstration of the capabilities of the Soviet Union. With a payload of up to 100 megatons of TNT (although in testing halved to reduce environmental disaster) who knows what the world could have been like had the Cold War not been so “cold”. Scary to think about. Here’s a video showing footage of this devastating weapon (with commentary I believe by Tiff Needel).

I’ve seen lots of pictures of gigantic hamburgers in my time, but hardly any additional information. What luck that Ryan from Mouthpiece Sports Blog had the chance to interview somebody who managed to eat a 9KG hamburger.

…I cut pieces off of it. I started with taking the top bun off and ate the toppings off the bun, so that I could use it to dip the meat if I felt like it. Then, I started to cut wedges off of the patty and I’d eat them — that included the cheese of course. And after I got done with that, I moved on to the debris of the patty as well as the onions and lettuce and all that stuff on the bottom of the bun…

Makes me feel sick just reading about it. Clicky to check it out.