Mad Cow? It's a Riot!

Today's picture is from and in honor of the brand new blog from the folks at Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, the best thing to happen to radio since the doctor said to Mrs. Marconi, "Si tratta di un ragazzo!" 

The actual story here is a protest by European dairy farmers over falling milk prices. One shudders to think what might have happened to those police if they had not had riot shields! As the caption at the Wait Wait blog points out, what if one of them had been lactose intolerant?

(Photo credit: Georges Gobet / AFP/Getty)

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Google Street View Reveals LOTR Battle Location

 Who knew? Looks like the location of the Battle of Helms Deep has been captured by the roving Google Street View cameras. (Click pic for full-size view.) Turns out it was at 8 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh, PA. Now we know the secret behind the Steelers awesome defensive line back in the day: Orcs.

(HT for link to @WhatChrisLikes)

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How to Be Outstanding in Your Class

Knowing that the tight job market would soon be flooded with thousands of recent graduates, Denise did everything she could think of to be outstanding among her peers.

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Hell: Fire and Brimstone? No. It Will Be This in Your Face for All Eternity

Horror movies? Sort of creepy.

Being stalked by a Walmart greeter? Creepier.

But creepy never got truly creepy until this.

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Tajik Jimmy: The New Susan Boyle?

Move over Susan Boyle. "Tajik Jimmy" didn't need Simon Cowle's approval to become Internet famous.

Baimurat Allaberiyev, a diminutive native of Tajikistan who has herded sheep, picked cotton and toiled in construction, hardly looks like Russia's latest musical sensation.

But Allaberiyev has remarkable talent sets him apart from the millions of Central Asians who come to Russia to escape crushing poverty at home.

A musical prodigy, he can perform Bollywood show-stoppers as a one-man band, equipped with nothing but an uncanny falsetto and a metal bucket.

That -- and the miraculous star-making powers of the Internet -- have turned this 37-year-old into a cult celebrity here.

Allaberiyev won fame after shaky videos shot with mobile phones surfaced on the Internet that showed him performing songs like "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja" from the 1983 Bollywood classic "Disco Dancer".

Set against grim backdrops like a construction site or a storeroom full of boxes, the videos became a viral sensation. They have now been viewed more than 400,000 times on YouTube, the movie-sharing website.

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Amish Roller Derby

Go ahead. Laugh at the silly, Luddite Amish and their technology-despising ways. She's ahead of you!

Life may be sad enough in Lancaster County, PA, but when the Amish are cooler than you are...well, it just got a little sadder.

(Thanks to my friend Brian Allain, who took the picture. It appeared on his blog Ramblings and Such in the post "More Living with the Amish." Bryan lives in Amish Paradise but not this one: )

Flight School

Crap! Failed parallel parking AGAIN! Gotta get my jumbo jet license before the prom so I can pick up Krystal in style...

Rainbow Warrior

First post...and already I'm paying homage to peopleofwalmart.com. This perhaps displays why the words "rainbow" and "pride" don't really belong together.