Something All Must Witness To Believe
For those of you itching to see Puddles the Clown combine The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” with Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” this is for you.
Enjoy. Or hate. It’s a free country.
Well, relatively, anyway.
For the second year in a row, Emirates is the world’s most profitable airline in the 2025-26 reporting period.
The airline has reported record-breaking financial results, despite a disruptive and challenging 12th month of its financial year, including:
🏆 Record profit before tax (PBT) of US$ 6.2 billion (AED 22.8 billion), up 7% from last year, and a PBT margin of 17.4%
✈️ Record revenue of US$ 35.7 billion (AED 130.9 billion), an increase of 2% over last year
💵 Highest-ever level of cash assets at US$ 15 billion (AED 54.9 billion), 10% higher compared to 31 March 2025
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Before YouTube existed, one 27-second clip broke the early Internet and email servers.
In 1996, Vinny Licciardi - a real employee at tech company Loronix - sat at his office cubicle, lost his temper, slapped his monitor, smashed his keyboard like a baseball bat, and KICKED the computer across the floor.
The video spread by email as "badday.mpg" in 1997, hitting over 2 million views in days, becoming one of the FIRST viral videos in history.
I got this 100s of time sent to me in 1997, it was my slowest email download each time, taking ~18 minutes on dialup!
But I did laugh each time.
AOL, EarthLink and other ISPs banned the attachment by name. So folks just changed the name.
No one ever credited or knew who first shared it.
And no one cared especially Vinny.
Times changed and sharing, well it is going out of fashion…
Brian Cox reveals that every tiny dot is a galaxy hosting 100 billion stars. That thin line at the top? A billion light-year span. Even at the speed of light, it would take a billion years just to cross that sliver. We are part of a cosmic ocean containing 30 sextillion stars, and yet, this is only the part we can see.
The room went completely silent as the scale settled in. It is one thing to hear the numbers, but seeing that map makes you realize we are drifting in a vast, beautiful ocean of light. This is the observable universe, a tiny fraction of a much larger reality. Pure cosmic awe is the only appropriate response to our place among the stars. It makes every earthly struggle feel both infinitely small and our existence infinitely precious.
Source: Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey (Live Tour)
The Garden Route has officially been ranked the world’s best road trip
Scoring 90.6/100, it beat iconic routes like Route 66 and the Amalfi Coast. A big win for South African tourism!:
https://t.co/ajGAba99Yx