Can you spot the two dummy houses in this photo? They look like the other houses on this upscale London street, but they’re just facade, only 5 feet wide, and the doors and windows don’t open.
Give up? They’re the two in the middle with the 18 blackened windows.
Before 1868, there were actual houses where the fake onces are now, at 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens. But the new Metropolitan Railway was coming through, the world’s first underground railway, and the locomotives needed a stretch of track that was open to the elements in order to vent the smoke and steam that would otherwise accumulate in the tunnels. So the railroad demolished the houses and built a facade that matched the other houses on the street, with similar architectural details. But if you look around back you can see the house-sized gap behind the facade, with the obsolete tracks below it.
Close up of the ‘entrance’ to 24 Leinster Gardens, complete with railings, door and plants. There’s a long tradition of wagsters sending pizza deliveries, taxi cabs and religious representatives to this address!
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Free malware with every download? Yup, there’s an app for that. Mac users downloading free screensavers and a video converter app from several popular download sites also got spyware that installs a back door, collects data, and sends encrypted information to remote servers, security company Intego said on Tuesday.
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The rises and falls in the length of skirts are said to be a good way of forecasting, based on research at eBay. Analysts at the company said the length of skirts sold on the website becomes shorter several days before the weather changes for the better, and lengthens when colder conditions are due.
This can’t be real” was my first thought. Then I checked the source: The Guatemalan government. This sinkhole appeared last sunday in a street intersection of Ciudad de Guatemala. Just looking at the photo gives me vertigo.
1991 was the year Nielsen Soundscan began tracking album sales. And, apparently, those numbers hadn’t been that low in nearly 20 years. That was, of course, until this past week, when just about 5.3 million records were sold.
The Billboard Top 10 for the last week with copies sold rounded off:
1. Justin Bieber – My World 2.0 – 60,000
2. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now – 54,000
3. The National – High Violet – 51,000
4. AC/DC – Iron Man 2 – 48,000
5. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards – 45,000
6. Carole King and James Taylor – Live at the Troubadour – 44,000
7. Usher – Raymond v. Raymond – 43,000
8. Charice – Charice – 43,000
9. Godsmack – The Oracle – 43,000
10. As I Lay Dying – Powerless Rise – 38,000
