Monday, 15 December 2008
1930's parkour, and the old-timey weirdness motherlode
Think that free-running was invented in the '90s by a group of French blokes? Think again. Doing the rounds on the internet is some archive footage from the 1930s, showing that people were leaping off buildings and running up walls decades ago:
Gnarly.
The footage comes from an even more excellent source - a 1977 film called Gizmo!, compiled from archive footage, showing all the crazy things that people got up to in the olden days. Luckily for us, the whole thing's available on Google Video, and it's thoroughly excellent - if you've got 79 minutes spare, and have a high tolerance for really badly dubbed black-and-white newsreel, you could do a lot worse than watching it.
Hey! Who throws shoes at Bush? Did you see that? After he ducked the first shoe he even smiled.
We have an incoming 
NORAD – the North American military organisation that provides early warning of incoming missile attacks – have launched their annual website that tracks Santa's progress around the world. They haven’t shot him out of the sky yet, which is good.Restaurants here..
arabian food with..
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