For 13 February 2008, again our beautiful and very huge collection of Amazing, Funny, Weird, some Insane, Bizarre or Cruel and some Serious Issues for

On Wednesday our beautiful new postings for the boring times in the office, to restart the vitality of your brain…;) Yes here is our Linkbox24 again. Today with a big collection of new links, with some beautiful clips…a few news issues, of which I hope you’ll appreciate them too… ;)

Space shuttle back-flips
Shuttle Atlantis has performed a giant back-flip to give NASA a close look at its thermal shield. This footage is at high speed…

Sex and the socket
Sex And The Socket by Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco "Sex And The Socket" is a story about a lamp that is in search for the right light-bulb. In her search, she meets 3 lightbulbs. She narrates her experience with each one of them in a sexual metaphor. At the end, she falls in love with a CFL-light-bulb…

Sigmund
Senseless violence on the streets these day and either in the therapeutic practice, terrible but somehow, good manners will help us to accept it…(???)

Rubik’s cube solving robot
I thought this one was pretty amazing. Some guy built a machine that can solve a rubiks cube…

Stupid presenter pushed a woman into glass pyramid on stage
A famous Dutch TV presenter Paul de Leeuw, pushed a woman in the back and into a glass pyramid on stage. Probably on purpose to make a kind of stupid prank, but it’s only a terrible mishap… She had some wounds on her hand but this push could have been terrible wrong. Surprising for me is the laughing afterwards about this by Paul de Leeuw and either by people the audience…pushing someone into glass…what’s the fun???

Campaign takeout - an inconvenient feud...
An inconvenient feud… Democratic insiders agree that Al Gore is the ultimate prize among uncommitted super delegates, and Clintonistas well understand a Barack Obama endorsement by Bill Clinton's veep would be a huge blow to Hillary. They're hoping Gore will stay on the sidelines, but shudder over reports Obama has been courting Prince Albert for months. They also believe that Gore must be sorely tempted to stick it to the Clintons, whom he blames in large part for his defeat in 2000. "The level of animus between them is unbelievable," a well-placed Hillary partisan confided. A prominent Democratic strategist with close ties to both camps echoes: "The Clintons and the Gores can't stand each other." Did you knew that? ;)

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Otter vs. puffer fish
Sometimes a defeat can really be a victory. This otter is trying to make an afternoon snack out of a puffer fish. But this puffer fish gulps water until it resembles a beach ball and refuses to deflate itself. But this puffer fish is really saving two lives. It has a poisonous gallbladder and if the otter were to actually to eat the fish, they would both die.
Check out these other interesting Animal Fights…

Stand-up comedian Al Murray - Pub Landlord
Al Murray Pub Landlord (Part I) Al Murray discusses beautiful British names and more at the Secret Policeman's Ball…

Criss Rock - how not to...
How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked…Criss Rock and his 7 pointers how not to get your ass kicked by the police…

Retired teacher's confession- he couldn't read or write...
Retired Teacher Reveals He Was Illiterate Until Age 48In 1961, Corcoran graduated with a bachelor's degree in education, while still illiterate he contends. He then went on to become a teacher during a teacher shortage. "When I graduated from the university, the school district in El Paso, where I went to school, gave almost all the college education graduates a job," said Corcoran. For 17 years Corcoran taught high school for the Oceanside School District. Relying on teacher's assistants for help and oral lesson plans, he said he did a great job at teaching his students. "What I did was I created an oral and visual environment. There wasn't the written word in there. I always had two or three teacher's assistants in each class to do board work or read the bulletin," said Corcoran. In retrospect, Corcoran said, his deceit took him a long time to accept. "As a teacher it really made me sick to think that I was a teacher who couldn't read. It is embarrassing for me, and it's embarrassing for this nation and it's embarrassing for schools that we're failing to teach our children how to read, write and spell!" While still teaching, Corcoran dabbled in real estate. He was granted a leave of absence, eventually becoming a successful real estate developer…

Raccoon runs into bonfire
A raccoon is chasing a smaller animal around a bonfire when suddenly the little guy gives up and jumps into the fire but that doesn't stop the raccoon from catching him. Unfortunately, for the raccoon he didn't completely think out his plan…

Surfing duck
This duck wanted to get in on the surfing action as well!

The numbers add up to John McCain
The numbers add up to John McCain… In the wake of John McCain's Tsunami Tuesday victories and Mitt Romney's consequent withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes, a reality has emerged that conservatives must accept: John McCain will be the Republican Party's nominee…

Hedgehog eating a carrot
This happy hedgehog has a mouthful munching on that carrot. He's a cute little guy, but I thought all hedgehogs were blue - Sonic doesn't approve…

Throwing children
It may look bad, but I bet if you were a five-year old kid, you'd think it was awesome…

Erick Egeraat - architectures and master-planning
Erick van Egeraat graduated from the Technical University of Delft Department of Architecture with honourable mention in 1984 and was the co-founder of Mecanoo – the renowned avant-garde architects. In 1995, he established (EEA) Erick van Egeraat associated architects. After more than 10 years of successful practice EEA now has offices in London, Moscow, Prague, Budapest and Rotterdam and employs more than 140 permanent professionals. Erick van Egeraat is the recipient of numerous awards and citations most recently including the ‘Rietveldprijs 2007’, the ‘RIBA Award 2007eeaaees’ for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, the Dutch ‘School Building Award 2006’ for the Metzo College Doetinchem, the ‘For Budapest Award 2006’ for the ‘design of architectural masterpieces in Budapest’, the ‘Life in Architecture Award 2005’ for the best building in Warsaw and the ‘Copenhagen Award’ for the ‘Best City Picture’ in 2004. He is also the recipient of the IAA Professorship of the International Academy of Architecture in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Honorary Membership of the Bund Deutscher Architekten…

Mario theme on an 11 string guitar
This guy has learned how to play the Mario Brothers Theme on an 11 string guitar. That’s a guy with some pretty serious tapping skills…

Idiot nearly breaks his neck riding a dirtbike
That was an awesome landing. And by awesome I mean it was the worst ever…

Mini muscles
Mini-muscleman: Meet the world's smallest bodybuilder…

More amazing facts
Alright, I didn’t check every single one of these facts but all the ones I did seemed to check out. Let me know if any of these are untrue…

Sticking your hand in a crocs mouth is a bad idea
Unfortunately he doesn't get his arm bitten off. It would've been interesting to see if the croc spits or swallows…

http://www.break.com/index/break-dancing-moron.html
Some moron in a fat suit attempts some break dancing in his kitchen. It does not end well…

Cocaine shoes...
Shoes hid $500,000 of cocaine a French woman has been arrested after drugs worth $500,000 were found in three pairs of shoes at Brisbane International Airport.
Australian Customs today said the woman was stopped when she arrived from Hong Kong on Sunday. Miriam Klett, 21, was charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border controlled drug after police said she tried to smuggle heroin and cocaine into the country.
Officers became suspicious of the slip-on shoes after searching the woman's baggage and drilled into one of them, revealing cocaine. A customs spokesperson said the shoes contained a total of about 1kg of cocaine and 850 grams of heroin with a potential street value of $500,000…

The problem with carrier pigeons
A giant pigeon attack would make my day so much more interesting…

Caracal vs. bird
The Caracal is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat. The Caracal is labeled as a small cat, but is amongst the heaviest of all small cats, as well as the fastest. The Caracal is well-known for its skill with hunting birds; the Caracal is able to snatch a bird in flight, sometimes more than one at a time. A Caracal can jump and climb exceptionally well, which enables it to catch hyraxes better than probably any other carnivore…

Boxer reduced the city with 1 pedophile
Street justice: boxer kills pedophile who raped his son…A former boxer who admits killing an alleged pedophile in St. Petersburg may have murder charges against him reduced by prosecutors…I guess most of the fathers will understand his response…as a primitive act of justice…

Welcome home
This poor kid comes home from a long day at work only to have his brother nail him with an exercise ball just as he opens the door…

Teacher showed accidently porn to his pupils...
Teacher suspended for showing porn film to pupils. A teacher has been suspended for accidentally showing pornography to pupils during a lesson. The male teacher used his own personal computer to show an educational film but the pornographic movie flashed up instead. The class of 11 and 12-year-olds saw "graphic sexual images" from film in the teacher's private collection. Families of the shocked children say they only saw a few seconds before the teacher realised his mistake - and pulled the plug on his laptop. The teacher used his own computer when the DVD player in the classroom failed to work when the children were due to watch the schools film. Education chiefs confirmed the teacher was sent home as an investigation was launched at Sandfields Comprehensive in Port Talbot, South Wales. Families of the pupils, both girls and boys, were "shocked and upset". "My grandson is very distressed by what he saw," said one grandparent, who did not want to be named. "The police have now got to speak to the pupils. It's a traumatic experience for a youngster to go through." He said pupils were exposed to the shocking scenes for only a few seconds before the computer was turned off. Police have launched an investigation into the incident after a complaint was made…good they got him!

A motorbike car...
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Íts raining potato chips
It’s Raining Potato Chips! Ever wonder how they make potato chips? This is totally cool…

1 m in marijuana growing in Sydney home and garden
How does this garden grow? Very high, with $1m in marijuana. As gardens go, this is not what the occupant of this Liverpool house wanted to see - a million dollars worth of marijuana plants stacked neatly on his front lawn by police. Following an anonymous tip-off, Liverpool police raided the house in Medley Avenue at 8am, arresting a 39-year-old man and discovering large marijuana plants growing in every room of the house. "The people that live in the street have taken great interest in, of course," Inspector Paul Kitley from Liverpool police said of the cannabis plants stacked neatly in rows on the front lawn of the drug house.
The bust - 355 plants in total which police value at $1 million - was one of the biggest Inspector Kitley had seen in such a built-up area, he said. "The whole house, every room, was just chock-a-block full of plants," he said…

Brick hits thief in the face
A thief trying to break into a store picks up a large brick and tosses it at a window but it ricochets off and nails the dude in the face…

Kid does Macarena on electric tower
He was a pretty bad dancer, so no wonder he got booed off the stage and fell a long ways down…

Dog chases laser attached to collar
This guy has attached a laser to his wiener dog's collar and lets the hilarity and confusion ensue…

Christian right extremists???
Christian extremists are preaching a war against tolerance to target and persecute all Muslims, including the 6 million who live in the U.S. Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out at Christian colleges -- a few days ago they were at the Air Force Academy -- to spew racist filth about Islam on behalf of groups such as Focus on the Family. It is a clever tactic. Curly, Larry and Mo, who all say they are born-again Christians, engage in hate speech and assure us it comes from personal experience. They tell their audiences that the only way to deal with one-fifth of the world's population is by converting or eradicating all Muslims. Their cant is broadcast regularly on Fox News, including the Bill O'Reilly and Neil Cavuto shows, as well as on numerous Christian radio and television programs. Shoebat, who has written a book called Why We Want to Kill You, promises in his lectures to explain the numerous similarities between radical Muslims and the Nazis, how "Muslim terrorists" invaded America 30 years ago and how "perseverance, recruitment and hate" have fueled attacks by Muslims. These men are frauds, but this is not the point. They are part of a dark and frightening war by the Christian right against tolerance that, in the moment of another catastrophic terrorist attack on American soil, would make it acceptable to target and persecute all Muslims, including the some 6 million Muslims who live in the United States. These men stoke these irrational fears…

Drifter nails bystander
A Indonesian driver drifts at a high speed and side sweeps an innocent bystander tossing him about 40 feet…

Three bitches brutally attack a girl in front of a crowd
Whatever she did, she definitely won't do it again. Mostly because she may be hospitalized for the foreseeable future…

Saddam wannabe
Someone get these kids a Wii or something so they stop almost hanging themselves playing Saddam…

Turkish family walks on all fours
“The Family That Walks on All Fours” re-aired recently on PBS as part of the prestigious science series, NOVA. The film first aired in the UK last March and has sold to over 30 countries, securing BBC Worldwide the biggest-ever sale for a single documentary…