World’s Strangest

Editor’s Note: Reader Andrea recently asked if we could cover the history of traffic lights. Here’s what we had in the archives. –Jason We’re still stumped on that whole chicken vs. egg question, but there’s one thing we do know for sure—traffic congestion predates the automobile. Long before the invention of the internal combustion engine, horses [...]

YouTube link. This is a true color movie, not a “colorized” one. This wonderful film was made in 1927 by Claude Friese-Greene. Colour film from the 1920s is exceptionally rare, and this is a very powerful example… The Cenotaph sequence from around 3:37 to 3:54 is very poignant. This was filmed only nine years after the end [...]

The US division of the Boy Scouts turns 100 today. The movement began in Britain under the leadership of General Robert Baden-Powell. An American publisher, William Boyce, met a Boy Scout in London and was so impressed that he decided to bring scouting to the United States. It grew rapidly during World War I and [...]

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. The Silliest Chase of All Time You know we here at DRB love a good chase in a movie, but this… this… is as atrocious as it’s royally silly. It’s also captivating in a weird way and has to be seen to be believed – taken from “Alluda Majaka” (1995), [...]

What’s a girl to do for fun after the Grammys and all of the post-Grammy parties are over? Well, if you’re Ke$ha, you round up a limo, a group of friends, some sheets and some spray paint and you go deface the Hollywood sign (maybe. We’ll get to that in a second). Even though the [...]

We may not be at the top of the food chain, exactly, but we at least have our inanimate food conquered. Bread, veggies, milk – these things don’t pose a threat to our existence. At least, not usually. On at least a couple of occasions, some faulty (or just old) construction has resulted in freak [...]

(YouTube Link) Some very creative work with cardboard, glue and other random items went into this fun little video. It’s simply another chapter in London DJ Jake Williams’ book of funk, and the song is a sampling of Yaz/Yazoo’s “Midnight.” via Bifurcated Rivets

Beer production goes back thousands of years, and its been an important part of human culture ever since. How much do you know about the history and production of beer? At a London brewery in 1814, a vat containing more than 100,000 gallons of ale exploded, sending the beer rushing down the street through poor residential [...]

Stonehenge and other historic monuments in the UK are now available on Google Street View as a result of a joint venture between Google and the National Trust: The pictures were taken late last summer using the ‘Google trike’ – a three wheeled bike with a Street View camera mounted on it, suited to collecting images [...]

This winter has been unusually cold in Britain. In response, three Holiday Inn hotels there are offeering to provide guests with bed-warmers. Human bed-warmers. If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain’s London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between [...]