Just found this while poking around on Naver. This would be from the “Pig Contest,” at Guanshan Village in Shantou City, found in China’s Guangdong province. More photos here.

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I’ll I can say about this is it’s good this guy didn’t run into a lion on the loose. You know how it goes when tigers and lions fight. Tigers get turned into steaks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP1ToHQVTgc

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When I first glanced at this I thought a snake had been found with a foot in it’s stomach. I got up, made some coffee, and pondered that a little — even going so far as to imagine writing a post with a joke about Yao Ming and how they’d finally amputated his oft injured [...]

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Via Korea Beat.
A fossil were discovered in Hwaseong, which is in Gyeonggi province, and not far from Incheon. Apparently a city employee stumbled upon one while preparing for a boat show and yacht competition.
I know what you’re all thinking — wasn’t Triceratops a Korean band from the mid-90s? Well, no. Actually, that band had an [...]

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I know the title is a little over the top. I don’t normally get to report on things like this. I just saw this on the TV news and was curious about the photos — but if you don’t like explicit, gory pics of dead tigers you might not want to look here or here. 
Apparently what [...]

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Japanese scientists have developed a new method for identifying Mad Cow disease by measuring the brain waves produced in response to audio stimuli. The cows developed the typical symptoms of Mad Cow (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) 24 months after being infected, however the researchers found that the cows had a delayed reaction to sound just 22 [...]

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Ted Walker, who’s working on some new photos for a Team USA WBC 2009 piece I’m doing, has a new site that’s pretty funny and not remotely related to baseball. It’s called THATguy, and is a humor/photoshop site in the vein of I can has cheezburger, which he links to.
If you haven’t seen “I can [...]

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There’s one last Jacques Rogge joke in here somewhere, but I think it’s time we put the Olympics to bed until we’ve got flying cars or homeopathic plastic surgery  or whatever awaits us in 2016. I want to kick off the  second year of East Windup Chronicle in style, with a hard hitting report on [...]

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