Archive for the ‘disasters’ Category
Written by Bill G on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in Trainwrecks, culture, disasters.
What’s going on with AIG, Russia, Gold Prices, and we’ll even try to explain credit default swaps!
You see? We’re not always worrying about naked celebrities!
Written by Alyx on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in disasters.
23/6’s McCain Girls. As invasive said, you’ll wish you could un-see that. And if you really don’t like him, check out Daily Kos’ report on why he came to be known as McNasty.
Written by OddCulture on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 in accidents, disasters, travel.
The city of Nokia, Finland (home to cell phone company Nokia) is floundering in filthy drinking water after a municipal employee mistakenly sent thousands of gallons of sewage into the water supply.
Skeida
source: Spiegel Online
Nokia has about 30,000 residents. In November 2007, a municipal employee unwittingly released thousands of gallons of sewage into the water [...]
Written by OddCulture on Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 in Florida, accidents, disasters, travel.
Not too far from the Odd Culture offices:
3 Killed in I-4 Pileup
Three people were killed and dozens injured early Wednesday in a major pileup on Interstate 4 in north central Florida, as fog and smoke from brush fires combined to make it almost impossible for motorists to see. Local authorities said the smoke was produced [...]
Written by OddCulture on Monday, December 31st, 2007 in Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Trainwrecks, accidents, bizarre, celebrities, crime, culture, disasters, funny pictures, funny video, sports.
Another Odd Year Goes By.
Lots of crap went down in 2007. Much of it disturbing - Bhutto’s assassination, the Virginia Tech massacre, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Microsoft Vista.
Some of it was funny. Or strange. Or both.
Here are the top 10 oddest stories:
10. Bad Newz: Michael Vick gets busted for dogfighting.
In July, Atlanta QB Michael Vick is [...]
Written by OddCulture on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 in 70s, Florida, Periods, TV, accidents, disasters, travel.
Source: BreitBart:
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. [...]
Written by OddCulture on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in accidents, bizarre, disasters, funny video.
American flags fell to the ground around Hillary at a press conference.
Quite an omen, isn’t it?
Written by OddCulture on Monday, November 12th, 2007 in crime, disasters.
In April 2007, oddculture.com and related sites went down. We were blamed by ServerFly.com (stay far away from them) as the “problem”. Perhaps our scripts were dragging the server down, we don’t know. But serverfly’s support was abysmal. There’s no excuse for keeping our site down for days and days while we wait and wait [...]
Written by Bill G on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in Religion, bizarre, black market, celebrities, culture, disasters, funny pictures, gangs, military, travel.
The Vice Guide to Travel
Format: DVD/Book
Release Date: 2006
(out of 4)
Founded in Canada and based in NYC, Vice Magazine has been published in various countries around the world. I took a look at the combination book/DVD entitled “The Vice Guide To Travel”, which covers various trips by the zine’s editors to dangerous places around [...]
Written by OddCulture on Friday, October 5th, 2007 in 80s, Periods, TV, Trainwrecks, bizarre, celebrities, culture, disasters, food, funny video.
Face it, marketing departments and product development divisions can be made up of real dopes sometimes. We mean, for every Apple iPod there’s an Arch Deluxe or worse, a Time Warner/AOL merger. Hey, they can’t all be winners, right? In that spirit, we present to you
5 Product and Marketing Disasters
New Coke
From Wiki:
New Coke [...]
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