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Look, Mum, No Hands! Tokyoflash’s Fun But Confusing Timepieces

Have you ever noticed what a bad wrap wolves have received in folklore? In the Three Little Pigs, the poor asthmatic wolf huffed and puffed his way into a cauldron wolf soup, which The Guardian has cleared up as an insurance scam by the pigs themselves. In Little Red Riding Hood the poor old wolf was so hungry he had to [...]
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Smalltime Crowdfunding Crooks: Tracing a Kickstarter fraudster to other crowdfunding scams

Technology : Pando Daily (18 hours ago)

Last week three filmmakers producing a documentary on crowdfunding noticed something fishy. They had come across a project, called Kobe Red, promising to provide a line of flavored beef jerky made from organic, beer-massaged beef fr... Read Post

Vortex Cannon Proves: Three Little Pigs Were Right

Odd : mental_floss (3 years ago)

This BBC video from Bang Goes the Theory demonstrates that sufficiently powerful huffing and puffing will indeed blow your (poorly constructed) house down. Of course, you do need a massive cannon to do it. But pigs are basically min... Read Post

Wolfdozer Hands-On Preview

Mobile / Mobile Apps : Slide To Play (11 months ago)

If the Big Bad Wolf had a license to operate heavy machinery, the story of the Three Little Pigs might have gone very differently. Instead of huffing and puffing, a properly trained wolf could just throw his bulldozer into overdrive... Read Post


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