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.

Wow. So apparently a man in Toronto managed to gather together almost 3,000 stolen bicycles. According to the article in The New York Times, Igor Kenk had been at this for quite some time, even racking up an earlier arrest, before police managed to take him down.

“The jumbled collection of bicycles suggests that Mr. Kenk is the unofficial world champion of bicycle thieves. But as he awaits trial next month on 58 charges related to theft and drug possession, the biggest mysteries of all are Mr. Kenk’s motives and his ultimate plan for the armada of steel, rubber and aluminum he amassed.”

Also of note would be the 15 pounds of marijuana and the stolen bronze sculpture that features a snake and centaur doing battle. You can read the whole article, complete with pictures of an amazing collection of bikes and a somewhat disturbing mug shot over at The New York Times.

“When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to name the journalist they most admired, Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN.”

That’s from a New York Times article on the way that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have gone from news parody to an actual force to be reckoned with and an outlet that more and more Americans are turning to for their dose of news.

“One of the program’s signature techniques — using video montages to show politicians contradicting themselves — has been widely imitated by “real” news shows.”

Read the whole story over at The New York Times.

The BBC has a pretty cool story about a group of wild dolphins that have begun to exhibit tail-walking behavior. This particular group of dolphins live off the coast of Australia, and scientists believe that the behavior is being taught to them by a wild dolphin who spent a few months recovering in a local dolphinarium, but who wasn’t trained during the time that she was there.

“In the 1980s, Billie, one of the females in the group, spent a few weeks in a local dolphinarium recovering from malnutrition and sickness, a consequence of having been trapped in a marina lock.

She received no training there, but may have seen others tail-walking.”

What blows my mind about this story is the idea that this wild dolphin watched other dolphins tail-walking during her short time in captivity and then decided to teach it to other dolphins when she was released into the wild again.

Read the whole story over at the BBC.