Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind's love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It's very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it's about to fall apart. Read More >>
Your feet in a front of a sunset. Your feet sprawled on a grassy knoll. Your feet surrounded by cats. Whatever the situation, Instagram's about giving your friends and admirers a chance to peer through sepia-coloured glasses at the fun and exciting life of your feet. But photographer Joe McNally may have just taken the Instagram-foot-shot to end all foot shots. Read More >>
Featured comment by Prozac:
"Maybe he was in a safety harness wearing a parachute and an oxygen tank, accompanied by trained personnel and was hugging a pillar while his wife and ..." More »
Here's a factoid that will blow your mind: the Burj Khalifa—the tallest building in the world—is so tall that you can watch the sunset from the base of the building, get into an elevator right to the top, and watch the sunset all over again. Read More >>
Forget about the 1-kilometre-high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that. This is it, the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be fifty metres higher, have 189 floors and looks like a beautifully shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap. Read More >>
As if being the tallest building in the world isn't already impressive enough, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai put on one of the most amazing fireworks displays I've ever seen to ring in the new year. Read More >>
Featured comment by rustybullet:
"Nice - but London's was 1 hundred billion times better! Too much?
The millennium wheel always looks nice with the sort of spiral effect they do" More »
When I saw the Burj Khalifa in real life I was truly stunned. Indeed, tallest skyscraper in the world defies belief. Today I learned something that also defies belief: all the poop produced there has to be removed by trucks. Read More >>
Featured comment by eadingas:
"If the line of trucks is so long, can't they just connect all trucks together with hoses, thus producing a makeshift sewage system? :)" More »
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