If you don’t live in India or follow the Bollywood (or Hindi) movie scene, the name Rajinikanth probably doesn’t ring a bell. But much like Ron Burgundy, this 60 year-old actor is kind of a big deal. After leaving his job as a Bangalore bus conductor in 1973, Rajinikanth (whose real name is Shivaji Gaekwad) [...]
Apparently this surreal “wildlife” video has been uploaded onto YouTube for a couple of years now, and was the main topic of discussion on several different websites when it first came out. Yet somehow today was the first time I had ever seen, or heard anything about it. The description attached claims this is actual [...]
To commemorate the life of an Italian explorer who inadvertently discovered the Americas (he believed he had found India) and brought slavery, war, and destruction to the inhabitants of the “New World”, let’s take a look at some other stuff that’s not important: I don’t want to sound like one of those “back in my day” jerk offs, but it seems [...]
I’m happy to say that my favorite outlet for Russian current events (MosNews) has apparently paid their web host enough Rubles to get their site back up. From what I can tell, they haven’t had enough time to add any new stories since their hiatus, but luckily there are plenty of stories from the recent past to fill the void. Here are [...]
