Via From The Old, Iceland's highest mountain, which also happens to be a volcano, is showing increasing seismic activity in the last few days. Could this be Iceland's revenge revisited? Bárðarbunga is a powerful stratovolcano in Iceland and is located under the ice...
Multi-Lingual Blogging Day
Tere Õhtust! Kui te ei tea, täna on "Multi Lingual Blogging Day" ja "European Day of Languages" ka. Praegu, Wasp proovib Eesti Keele õppida aga seda ei ole kerge. Siiski, see on minu väike kirjand Eesti Keeles. Ma soovin et seda meeldib teile. Head aega. _ Good...
Unfortunate advertising placement.
Wandering around YouTube, I unearthed the following little gem displaying some unfortunately placed adverts ranging from the highly amusing to hilariously inappropriate. Do enjoy! _
Rock Stars – Then and Now
NBC New York has a very entertaining photo gallery with 100 "then and now" photos of famous rockstars. Some have aged very well whereas others look like a run down Soviet era appartment block in the process of demolition. One that caught my eye from the selection was...
High speed vehicle dismantling
Via Small Dead Animals, an impressive demonstration of vehicle dismantling and re-assembly by the Canadian Army. OK, they may have cheated a little on the lack of bolts holding the thing together but it does drive again after they have finished. _ The local unwashed...
Governments spying on their citizens.
A couple of days ago I read an article on the BBC News website about Google releasing their new style Transparency Report which gives details of Government requests for user data as well as the number of Google hosted information items (video, search etc) that were...
Speculate to Accumulate
An interesting little insight into the world of high speed stock trading over at ZeroHedge where an advantage of milliseconds over your competitors is the difference between profit and loss. What do you do if you want to gain a proper edge? Easy, you build your own...
Police seek lettuce headed man.
From the department of wtf comes this piece from the BBC : Police have admitted having technical issues after releasing an e-fit of a burglary suspect which looks like a man wearing a lettuce. Officers released the image after a distraction burglary in which £60 was...
Search Engine Terms
Whilst browsing Waspsnest stats (as you do when terminally bored) I discovered an interesting section which summarises the search engine terms people have used to arrive at the blog. So, without further ado, the top 5 Waspsnest search terms for your delectation : In...
Military Fireworks
I noticed the photograph below in the news last week in an article about the re-enactment of the Inchon Landing during the Korean War. I would really like to know what kind of blasts those are. They seem to be detonating in one plane and also appear to be spreading...