Weekend links


Nothing much fun in the newspapers this weekend, mostly horrible stuff. So I’ll share a few links I found funny this weekend, I hope you like them.

Utopia Theory

Quote from the site : “Utopia Theory is the brain child of Tom Duffy and Wes Hill. We are strange. Don’t bother trying to convince us otherwise. Every piece of art that we do is first hand drawn, then scanned. “

Link : http://www.utopiatheory.com/

fly Nicholas Hendrickx the Lomographer

The fly on the left is alive when Nicholas took this photo, he is a genious. And his patience must be incredible.

Link to his Fly set : The adventures of Mr. Fly
Link to his top 50 : Nicholas’ top 50.

kenlee
offguard Celebrities caught off guard

Its good to see that trained actors, celebrities and models can be caught off guard as well.

Link : Celebrity Funnies

fake008 Funny fakes

I found these fakes extremely funny.

Link to Mystic Hackers

nuts Funny activities

What is going on here? A whole community gone nuts?

Link : http://www.biertijd.com


Telenor in Norway sued G.W. Bush

Sat phone

While preparing invasion of Iraq The US Marine Corps had to borrow a lot of advanced equipment from Norway. Among the equipment were 25 advanced laser target systems and measure systems. This became an embarrassed incident in Norway but its mostly forgotten.

Now however a new incident has come to our attention, at the same time US Marine Corps borrowed equipment from Norway US AID as well needed to borrow advanced communication equipment from the Norwegian company Telenor. They needed to test flow of information in humanitarian operations and find areas to improve.

But US AID never reached their targets due to combat operations and transferred the Norwegian equipment to The US Army. Telenor in Norway were not asked about this transfer and this was the root of the argument.

Soldiers made 4905 calls and surfed the net 2349 times during 31 days, most of the traffic were between soldiers and families/friends. The phone bill : over a half a million dollar. Telenor sent the phone bill to The US Army but they got it back, no one wanted to pay the bill. Telenor sued The US Army but had no luck getting through.

A few days ago the two parts agreed to a secret settlement, no one want to comment the incident.

Sources :
NRK
BT
SV