Potholes – anyone in South Africa will immediately know that it is cheaper for the monkeypality municipality to put up a sign board warning about potholes in the road than actually fix them! I took the above photo while traveling back from holiday last year. We laughed when we saw it and then immediately screamed […]
If you found my post on Detroit becoming a modern day ghost town you may enjoy todays post. I stumbled across a website called Theme Park Insider. There a reader, Ryan Traylor, posted some photos he took recently of the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans Theme park, which closed after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, […]
Who really profits from the lotteries? $53 billion in tickets were sold in 2006. Half of the revenue was paid out as winnings, and 35% of the tickets went to the state government where the tickets are sold while the rest went to administration and commission costs. However, every year $500 million in tickets are […]
They are known as the “Fukushima 50”; the workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station who are working tirelessly to prevent a nuclear meltdown at the plant. This all after the impact the earthquakes as well as tsunami’s have had on the nuclear plant and more specifically Japan earlier this month. These “Fukushima 50” are […]
I doubt there are many children in this world that don’t know what LEGO is or have not played with it before. I was fortunate to have an ice-cream container full of LEGO. I used to build spaceships and cars with rocket boosters and used to race them around the bedroom carpet. Hours would pass […]
According to Wikipedia, Pi is is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any Euclidean plane circle’s circumference to its diameter; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159265 in the usual decimal notation. Many formulae from […]