Weird Shit Blog
Because not everything has to make sense.
New Cracked article with Maxwell Yezpitelok! 5 Internet Annoyances That Are Way Older Than The Internet!
Apparently I slept longer than I thought. My Mental Floss article actually went up Thursday. It’s no. 10 for last week!
So I slept all day and missed that my FIRST ARTICLE FOR MENTAL FLOSS IS UP! Go read it! The 7 Black Days of the Week!
The Worst Photos to Ever Come From Down Under
Australia isn’t always full of horrible fel beasts from the Second Age who won’t hesitate to make you into poop. Check out that picture, for example. A nice, idyllic farm with fresh snow all around. It looks positively lovely.
“But wait,” you say. “Something looks wrong here. There’s no snow on the trees or the roof of the barn.” Yeah, listen, about that snow? I lied. It’s not snow. It’s spiderwebs. It’s all spiderwebs.
How does something so ghastly happen outside of your nightmares? Simple: Due to flooding in Wagga Wagga, all the spiders in the area had the choice of drowning or finding a way to survive. This being Australia, the invincible monsters took the second option. They went for higher ground and made lots and lots of web houses, since that land now belongs to them. They’re even making vaguely human-shaped webs, presumably as a warning to all of us.
Australia, you gotta handle your shit, man. You’re an island. The rest of us have no problems cutting you off.
Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn (On Google Maps)
If you’ve ever wanted to really get an idea of the destruction nuclear warfare can wreak but your yellowcake uranium deal with that African warlord fell through, NUKEMAP has you covered.
It’s a map that will actually show you the damage that a nuclear weapon can cause, but without all the, y’know, horribly killing people stuff. You simply enter the size of the bomb (in kilotons) or you can choose from several bombs created throughout history. Note how the bombs we dropped on Japan actually seem kind of small, only taking up a couple of city blocks in New York, and then marvel at how humans really are just petty dicks.
And it’s a useful learning tool for discovering just how big a bomb would have to be to destroy everything (the answer is 1 petaton, or 1,000,000,000,000 kilotons).
Also fascinating is that it’s possible to create a 100 teraton bomb would wipe out all life except in Australia.
So, future apocalyptic cults who are looking for a safe haven— You’ve found your answer.
I apparently researched this, although I do not remember doing so! But who am I to doubt Michael Swaim?
The Wolf Wave is Coming for You
Seeing one wolf leaping through the air is scary enough, but dozens of them? Holy crap. But hang on, what’s with this picture? It looks like someone just went totally nuts on the Photoshop clone tool or something. Is this some sort of CGI werewolf animation test for a movie?
It’s actually an art installation in the Guggenheim Museum called “Head On”, created by a Chinese artist named Cai Guo-Qiang. He says of the piece, “The bravery of the wolves is met head on by the unyielding wall. As the leading wolves go down, many more follow with force and determination.” Feel free to project whatever group of people you want onto that.
Each of the super-realistic wolves (of which there are exactly 99) is a hand-made replica, not taxidermy. So, basically, he’s got 99 wolves and a bitch literally ain’t one (because they’re all synthetic).
Via Reddit
