On June 4, southern Chile’s Puyehue volcano erupted for the first time in 50 years. It’s been spewing giant ash clouds ever since. Enough ash, it seems, to make the Nahuel Huapi Lake in neighbouring Argentina an unrecognizable, soot-covered abyss, as you’ll see in the above video of one diver’s attempt to sift through it all. [via The Telegraph]
Technology has blessed us with landline phones that look like footballs and Mickey Mouse ears for decades. So why do all of our mobile phones look basically, in the grand scheme of things, the same? Here are seven good reasons.
A guy with a window seat and a mobile phone captured some impressive video footage of Arizona’s Wallow wildfire.
There’s nothing worse than being interrupted by an annoying mobile phone user while trying to enjoy a movie. That’s why the Alamo Drafthouse, an eat-and-drink theatre in Austin, Texas, recently booted a young woman for texting during a movie (and despite several warnings to knock it off).
A Spanish pilot friend of mine sends me this stunning video of a low pass flyby in Argentina. I just can’t believe the mad man who was flying this jet got it so close to the ground.
It’s a long weekend (in the US). (Yeah!) What better way to kick it off than to watch some poor souls attempting to cope with terrible names from cruel, cruel parents? Good thing there’s Dick Weiner’s Name Changery, which provides the perfect remedy!
When a loud motorcycle woke up Mark Nesdoly’s young daughter, he decided he had enough. Instead of taking a baseball bat to the offending Harley, Nesdoly used his engineering skills to design the Noise Snare, a video detection system for loud vehicles.
