Imgur: Spoiler alert
Dutch photographer Max Siedentopf goes out at night, and decorates cars chosen at random with cardboard fenders and spoilers. He then takes photographs of them. There was a time when Max would be led away quietly for appropriate treatment. Now he’s a hit on the internet. Max tells Vice magazine: “I thought I’d do people a favour by giving them a custom-made supercar.” See just how grateful you’d be for Max’s attention on tinyurl.com/PimpThatCar.
Change.org: Dollarydoos and don’ts
Here’s an idea that’s so far out of the box that the idea and the box can now only communicate by radio telescope. Australian Thomas Probst wants to revive his country’s economy by changing the name of the Australian dollar to the Dollarydoo (a joke originally made on The Simpsons).
“This will make millions of people around the world want to get their hands on some Australian currency due to the real life Simpsons reference,” says Mr Probst, “driving up the value of the Australian currency.” Nearly 10,000 people have backed his petition on change.org (tinyurl.com/dollarydoo). Why doesn’t George Osborne have ideas like that?
YouTube: Carmageddon
The next time you’re stuck in traffic, think yourself lucky you’re not in China, where they have the only traffic jams that are visible from space (or is that the Great Wall?). Now a YouTube video shows just how bad they are as a helicopter swoops over a Beijing snarl-up, and just keeps swooping as cars stretch out to the horizon. Tinyurl.com/TrafficInChina shows how traffic stretched across more than 40 lanes – have a look, it’s difficult to make an accurate count – must suddenly try to funnel into a road that’s more like 15 lanes. The resulting chaos, which has a certain eerie beauty, has been viewed more than 5.3m times.
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YouTube: Stop taking the hiss
It could happen to anybody. You are filming a squirming, slithering pit of rattlesnakes when you drop your valuable GoPro camera right on top of the snakes. The snakes are understandably a bit put out. What do you do? Here’s a tip from YouTuber Michael Delaney – always carry a handy golf club. Not to be misss-ed at tinyurl.com/PitofSnakes.
YouTube: Oi ref, the train driver’s offside
Here’s something you don’t see at Old Trafford. There’s a tussle in midfield, an attack begins to build, then suddenly the fans can’t see any more because there’s a steam train in the way. This is apparently a regular occurrence at TJ Tatran Cierny Balog, an amateur side in Slovakia. All aboard at tinyurl.com/TrainOnPitch.