They juggle bottles, pour exotic drinks and sometimes dance on the bar. Meet Asia’s top bartenders who are competing at the Asia “flairtending” championships at the Venetian hotel in Macau.
The winner was 18 Hsu Po-sheng from Taiwan, who practiced up to 8 hours a day. For the competition he dressed up in a Spiderman outfit. [...]

American flags fell to the ground around Hillary at a press conference.

Quite an omen, isn’t it?

Don’t know if this is is actually the country of Iran, but, anyway:
From BoingBoing:
Looking at the details of Jeegar.com stats report, there is no doubt in my mind that what the young Iranian wants is not necessarily an open, transparent government. They need to have fun like all other people in their age group in [...]

Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
Story found on Gizmodo and Wired:
A robot cannon began wildly and autonomously firing its huge gun in South Africa last Friday, killing 9 soldiers and wounding 14. The Oerlikon GDF-005 antiaircraft gun suddenly began uncontrollably shooting as it swung back and forth, spraying hundreds of high-explosive 35mm cannon shells all [...]

Found in the archives — four uber-cheese 1990s training videos for Microsoft products.
Fattanic: Titanic meets the FAT32 file system.

Three more after the jump…

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 [...]

Since, unlike me, most of you are not cool enough to be part of Late Night Shots, I will provide you with a few of the best links from their newsletter.
Bo Jackson Tecmo Bowl Touchdown Run:

Some really hot chick from France or Germany or something:

Old lady gets punched in the face:

OK, that’s all you get.

This was sent to me by a coworker. I love how a few seconds after she throws up, she’s right back to the hosting gig like nothing happened! According to a translator, this is what went down:
Yes, Hello?
- Hello.
Hello, what’s your name?
- Niclas.
Hi Niclas, what’s your answer?
- tölp (English: boor)
*BARF!*
Whooo, OK! I just have to [...]

Tecktonik dance craze takes Paris by storm:

Girls Like Tecktonik
A new urban dance phenomenon has taken hold in Paris and is quickly spreading to the rest of France through Internet videos and word-of-mouth. Tecktonik, a mix of hip hop and techno dance, was the talk of this yearÂ’s Paris Techno Parade, the annual dance music street [...]

A Crater and Questions
On Saturday night, a fiery object fell from the sky in Carangas, located in the Puno province of Peru. Stunned residents said they tracked it to a fresh hole in the earth that was more than 60 feet wide, 15 feet deep, filled with boiling water and steaming with noxious fumes, according [...]