10 Coolest Finds of the Week #11
Pages from an Amazing Chinese Revolutionary Textbook Written in English (Asia Obscura) NYC Comedian Gives Out Free Cab Rides to New Yorkers for 14 Hours (Mark Malkoff) Stag Beetles Locked in Mortal Combat (Environmental Graffiti) China Inaugurates Gold Dispensing Machine (Reuters) World’s Youngest Professional Mountain Climber (Huffington Post) Devoted Piranha Parents Attack Beachgoers in Brazil […]
Russian Couple Build Their Own Fairy Tale Castle
A retired couple from the suburbs of Artyom, Russia have worked for 16 years transforming an ordinary house into a fairy tale castle, using only junk materials found on the street and at a local landfill. They might be pensioners, but Alexey and Valentina Krivov don’t consider themselves too old for fairy tales. They didn’t […]
The Mysterious Magus of Java and His Amazing Power of Chi
John Chang, also known as the Magus of Java or the Electric Eel man is a mysterious Indonesian healer who reportely possesses an incredible power called nei kung. Mr. Chang was first presented to the world in an award-winning documentary called The Ring of Fire, by brothers Lawrence and Lorne Blair. He requested his identity be protected […]
Monsieur Pingouin – The Man Who Thinks He’s a Penguin
79-year-old Alfred David has come to be known as “Monsieur Pingouin” by the people of Brussels because he almost always walks around in his big penguin suit and even “talks” like one. People who see Mr. Penguin for the first time and don’t know his story might think he’s on his way to a costume […]