When in Rome:

Bali jails Swiss tourist for insulting sacred Day of Silence

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Zgraggen said during his trial that he did not understand the extent of Nyepi restrictions and did not mean to insult the Balinese.

 

What? These guys don't know how use a meter to see if the generator is backfeeding line voltage? I'm glad they are writing a check for property damage but what if it was running medical equipment.

 

Sign her up!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...d-tackles-football-player-game-cha-rcna593612

Non-consensual dodgeball?

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/08/13...ts-charge-after-pe-dodgeball-incident-school/

 

Non-consensual dodgeball?

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/08/13...ts-charge-after-pe-dodgeball-incident-school/

Call me old fashioned ... but boys should never, ever ever ever never play rough with girls ... that's a big no-no ...

 

Call me old fashioned ... but boys should never, ever ever ever never play rough with girls ... that's a big no-no ...

Context required.

 

Context required.

 

Context required.

No contact sports between boys and girls. Running, tennis and archery are fine ... wrestling? ... one big NO ...

 

 

Licked by Lightning club.

 

Licked by Lightning club.

She needs to buy a couple of lottery tickets.

 

Fireworks for fishing? Sounds fishy to me.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/WS6a8867c9a3106bc57421cd4e.html

One person was killed and two others remain missing after an explosion occurred at a single-story courtyard in Linyi, Shandong province, on Friday afternoon.

The explosion took place at 3:38 pm in Wangqiao community, Yihe New Area, according to a statement from local authorities. A joint task force comprising public security, fire, emergency response, housing and urban-rural development departments was immediately established and dispatched to the scene for emergency rescue operations.

As of now, one person has been confirmed dead, two are missing, and the other injured individuals have been sent to hospitals for treatment and are in non-life-threatening conditions. Search and rescue operations at the site are still ongoing.

Preliminary investigations suggest that the explosion was caused by the illegal storage of explosive materials used for fishing by a tenant of the courtyard whose surname is Wang.

Some local video from a anti-CCP channel. YMMV on their biased conclusions too.

I've been (watched while others did it) blast fishing with hand grenades and TNT overseas. The whole house must have been full to do that sort of damage.

 

Visitors outfoxed by footwear thieves at provincial park in Sask.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sask...at-great-blue-heron-provincial-park-9.7316083

 

https://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/so...ncient-malays-could-fly-loses-university-post

Malaysian academic Dr Solehah Yaacob, who drew public scrutiny over claims that ancient Malays could fly and had taught the Chinese flying kung fu, is no longer associated with the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

 

https://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/so...ncient-malays-could-fly-loses-university-post

Malaysian academic Dr Solehah Yaacob, who drew public scrutiny over claims that ancient Malays could fly and had taught the Chinese flying kung fu, is no longer associated with the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM).

He should apply to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, or Oxford.

He's exactly what they look for.

 

From LinkedIn:


Gino Franceschini was half an inch too short to become a New York City firefighter in 1941. The requirement was 5'7" inches. Gino was 5'6" and a half. Most people would’ve shrugged and said “Guess it wasn’t meant to be.” Not Gino, he built his own neck stretcher. He practiced spine-stretching exercises for months. Even had a custom bed made.

And eventually, he showed up to the Civil Service Commission on a stretcher, fully relaxed, where they measured him at 5 feet 7 and one-sixteenth inches.

He passed. Got the job. Became a fireman.

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Washington homeowner hears mysterious banging, calls 911 before police find growling bobcat at top of stairs


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A Washington homeowner who heard mysterious banging inside their house called 911 to report a possible burglary, only for responding officers to discover the "cat burglar" was quite literal — a bobcat perched at the top of the stairs.

 

Filmmaker Shoots ‘The Oddersy’ Entirely on iMacs (yes iMacs)

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Norman and his crew bought a 21-inch iMac for $20 from eBay, with the Uber ride to collect it actually costing more than the webcam-equipped computer itself.

 

There's absolutely no magic or mystery here -- they guy simply makes a misleading statement by using the phrase "your drink" and "my drink" in an ambiguous way. He leads people into thinking that fluid from the cold source comes out hotter than the hot source, and, conversely, that the fluid from the hot source comes out colder than the cold source. That's not the case, as everything he does shows. The fluid from the cold source simply comes out hotter than the fluid from the hot source comes out. But so what? The limiting factor isn't the point at which the two fluids come out -- they aren't in thermal contact there. The cold fluid is in thermal contact with the hot source at the point it comes out and the hot fluid is in thermal contact with the cold source. So the limits are that the temperatures swap. Imagine just taking the fluid from the cold source and sending it through a coil of copper tube emersed in the hot liquid and doing the same with the hot liquid sending it through a coil in the cold water. The you would expect the fluid coming out of each tube to approach the temperature of the other source.

 

There's absolutely no magic or mystery here -- they guy simply makes a misleading statement by using the phrase "your drink" and "my drink" in an ambiguous way. He leads people into thinking that fluid from the cold source comes out hotter than the hot source, and, conversely, that the fluid from the hot source comes out colder than the cold source. That's not the case, as everything he does shows. The fluid from the cold source simply comes out hotter than the fluid from the hot source comes out. But so what? The limiting factor isn't the point at which the two fluids come out -- they aren't in thermal contact there. The cold fluid is in thermal contact with the hot source at the point it comes out and the hot fluid is in thermal contact with the cold source. So the limits are that the temperatures swap. Imagine just taking the fluid from the cold source and sending it through a coil of copper tube emersed in the hot liquid and doing the same with the hot liquid sending it through a coil in the cold water. The you would expect the fluid coming out of each tube to approach the temperature of the other source.

Many years ago I thought I had invented a method to efficiently distill a continuous flow of water.

It turned out I had "invented" exactly this (using latent heat from condensation to preheat the incoming cold water).

Counterflow heat exchangers are used in desalination plants and many other industries to capture what would otherwise be waste heat.