Twenty two years before 9/11, Pakistan International Airlines ran this ad in the French publication Le Point:
New York via Pakistan International. One of the companies offering scheduled flights to New York. Departure from Orly Sud, offering best flights to the cities in provinces. A new proof of PIA’s efficacy.
PIA is an international company expanding business successfully: 3,000,000 passengers this year, a departure every 6 minutes.
Success thoroughly built on customers’ satisfaction. For having an excellent flight to New York or 60 other metropolises in the world travel via PIA.
Posted by Alex in Sports on September 14, 2006 at 1:30 pm
After squandering $400 million he won as a heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson is reduced to doing "training camp" for tourists in (where else) Las Vegas.
The former "baddest man on the planet" has rolled his freak show into town and pitched his tent at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino.
Every lunchtime for two hours outside reception, "Tyson’s Training Camp" sees Iron Mike haul his lumbering body around a ring for the edification of American tourists clad in Hawaiian shirts.
What is it? Spiral Cellar is a watertight, pre-cast cylindrical system that can be sunk into any groundfloor room in the house. It was first developed in 1978 by George Harnois to allow wine lovers to have a large wine storage in homes without proper cellars.
Alex Gadsden designed this eco-friendly pedal-powered washing machine. Too bad you’d need to wash your shirt after pedaling to wash your dirty shirts. Link – via Sci-Fi Tech.
Posted by Alex in Film on September 14, 2006 at 1:22 pm
From the website:
Things got a bit too realistic on the set of CSI: New York on Tuesday, where an actual mummified body was discovered inside the building where production was underway.
Though downtown Los Angeles was subbing for the streets of New York, the corpse was real, a source close to the show tells PEOPLE, adding that the remains were found on the 5th floor of the building – only two floors below the actors and film crew.
The body, the source says, "was discovered by a building engineer who checked on the tenant because he had not paid rent for the month."
In a document called Hyouryuukishuu ("Tales of Castaways") printed in the late Edo period (1603 – 1868) in Japan, there is a story of Japanese sailors who found a wrecked ship with a mysterious appearance:
According to the document, this vessel washed ashore at Harashagahama in Hitachi-no-kuni (present-day Ibaraki prefecture). The body of the ship, described as 3.3 meters tall and 5.4 meters wide, had been built from red sandalwood and iron and was fitted with windows of glass or crystal. The mysterious characters of an unknown alphabet were found inscribed inside the vessel.
Edo-period UFO scrollAboard the drifting vessel was a finely dressed young woman with a pale face and red eyebrows and hair. She was estimated to be between 18 and 20 years old. Because she spoke an unfamiliar tongue, those that encountered her were unable to determine from whence she came. In her arms she clutched a plain wooden box that appeared to be of great value to her, as she would allow nobody to approach it.
Did some ancient Japanese sailors find a UFO? Pink Tentacle has the story: Link
Toyota (yes, the carmaker) has developed a robot that can jump just like a human:
The one-meter (3.3-foot) leg has a joint on its toe letting it jump as high as four centimeters (1.6 inches) by bending and stretching its toe and another knee-like joint, Japan’s top automaker said Wednesday.
"This is a basic technology that can be applied to a two-legged robot in future," said a Toyota Motor Corp. spokeswoman.
The Internet has got everything, including an online condiment packet museum with over 900 ketchup, mustard, relish, and other condiment packets in their collection!
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