Talk about a long haul. 99 days out on the ocean, alone in a custom rowboat. Personally, I think I would have lost my mind somewhere along the way. This is an impressive feat.

Read the whole story over at The San Francisco Chronicle.

There is no blood or graphic violence in this point of view video of a base jump gone wrong in Norway, but the screaming is enough to make you shudder at least a little bit. Plus, you are seeing footage shot from the jumper’s head-cam and it’s enough to put you into his shoes for a couple of seconds to vicariously experience the chill of a parachute failing to open.

FYI, the jumper is fine, he broke his leg, but nothing major.

Check it out over at the BBC.

According to the BBC, a group of women in Australia have set the world record for “the number of high-heeled sprinters in a race.” 265 women raced through the streets of Sydney in three-inch heels.

And yes, of course, there is video footage. Check it out over at the BBC.

The SunSentinal has a series of very odd pictures of themed restaurants from around the world. Included are; a sandwich shop in Lebanon that features a burger holding a hand-gun, a sushi place in Japan with an autopsy theme and a restaurant in Ukraine shaped like a giant coffin.

Definitely worth a gander. Head over to the SunSentinal to check the pics out.

Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident that occurred in England; luckily for all the Internet voyeurs out there, it was caught on tape. This is an impressive piece of footage.

According to the BBC an elderly man crashed his car into a supermarket.

What struck me as odd, was the quote from the store’s manager saying that there was only a young girl in the store and that she was “at the counter end of the shop,” which doesn’t make a lot of sense, since you can clearly see the young girl getting quite a surprise. You move that kid a foot or so and this would have been a tragedy.

Watch this spectacular video over at the BBC. Unfortunately the video footage of the crash has been removed from the BBC, I don’t know why, but it is no longer there.

So apparently the International Space Station is now playing host to a computer virus, brought on board by an astronaut’s laptop.

According to the BBC, NASA said that this is not the first time that a computer virus had traveled into space. Unfortunately there was no word in the article about whether or not the virus behaves differently in a zero-gravity environment.

Read the whole story over at the BBC.

Well, at least they were good enough to admit that point in the article itself. Still, I found myself oddly compelled to read the entire article about how German scientists used images from Google Earth to determine that cows seem to orient themselves in a north-south direction, just like a compass needle.

From the article . . .

“Studying photographs of 8,510 cattle in 308 herds from around the world, zoologists Sabine Begall and Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen and their colleagues found that two out of every three animals in the pictures were oriented in a direction roughly pointing to magnetic north.

The resolution of the images was not sufficient to tell which ends of the cows were pointing north, however.”

Honestly I don’t think it matters, but it certainly is interesting. Next time you find yourself at a loss for how to start up some small-talk style chatter with someone, just ask them if they knew that cows apparently have a magnetic sense.

Read the whole article over at The Los Angeles Times.

Bikini clad models wearing gorilla masks in a bar? Almost sounds like the pitch for a horrible B-movie, but instead it’s a life-drawing exercise which is drawing crowds.

The Los Angeles Times brings us this rather odd tale of bohemian entrepreneurship and art-scene run rampant. It would seem that the whole endeavor is actually quite popular. From the article . . .

“People bring all their supplies, and they’re ready to draw. They arrive at 3, and they don’t leave until the last ape leaves,”

You can read the whole article, complete with video and gorilla masked photos over at The Los Angeles Times.