Kids do Haka Dance in Canyonlands

After the high school Haka Dance post and the Pepsi Canyonlands post, who knew I would come across this YouTube video of kids doing the Haka Dance in Utah’s Canyonlands:

 
Everything in the world is merging into one.

Rapidsea vocabulary exercise: ‘hoon’ and ‘pinniped’

First up, this article from Australia popped up yesterday: “Police on trail of beach hoons.”  I had no idea what a “hoon” was, but the context provided only a few hints.  Well, after a quick Google definition search extensive research to firm up the definition, “hoon” ends up meaning “a loud, obnoxious person.”  Anyway, the [...]

Male prostitution on the beaches of Africa

We have all heard about the sex tourism aimed at men in places like Bangkok, but little is said about the women, mostly from rich countries, who are also traveling in search of male prostitutes.  The trends of finding these men on the beach has grown significantly.  Reuters posted this image today by Joseph Okanga:

The [...]

Society’s love of butterflies currently valued at $40,800

Butterflies and their peaceful meadow imagery powers have been all over the place this week (wait until you see the butterfly with the ball and chain that’s in the scan queue).  According to CNN, someone placed a winning online bid of $40,800 to name a butterfly the Minerva owl butterfly or Opsiphanes blythekitzmillerae, which is [...]

Oops ~ surfer unravels the mystery of the universe

Okay, just head on over to the article.  Here you go: "Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything" at Telegraph.co.uk.  Hey, Einstein started as a patent officer, so why not?

The S word ‘Swash’ ~ save water by stinking up a storm and spreading slime ~ gee, thanks Tide

Reduce, reuse, recycle, rewear?  So, there’s a new branded word out that will certainly be more influential than "padvertising."  The word is "Swash," and it’s a gift from Proctor & Gamble and their Tide brand, which is the Rapidsea detergent of choice (because the word "diurnal" instantly comes to your mind when doing laundry).  Well, [...]

Google wants Facebook to meet their Maka

Apparently Google has code named their Facebookesque social networking site "Maka-Maka."  If you look it up on the Hawaiian Dictionary Library site as "makamaka," you find out the word basically means "friend."  Of course, others in the comment section at this Techcrunch post point out what it could mean in other languages too.  This [...]

How the rich are supposed to act vs. how they actually do act ~ a lesson from Reddit links

You will often see large numbers of get rich expeditiously programs, such as multi-level marketing companies, touting their plans in tropical locations.  Many of them will show flashy pictures of exotic places and activities to entice new recruits.  Yet, you don’t often hear about business people who are super rich and how they spend their [...]

Facebook ~ Untangling organic agglomerations of technological chaos or just helping people hook up?

Facebook, when it was first started, was an exclusive club walled off from people who did not go to “elite” schools. Then as it started expanding, it was interesting to see which schools were slowly being considered as elite enough to get in. Before you knew it students who shared the same names wrote each [...]

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