Every Wednesday you will find links and top-line summaries to current events around the globe. Venezuela Buys Powerful Missiles With Russian Loan [Reuters] – Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2 billion to purchase tanks and advanced anti-aircraft missiles in deals that show Moscow’s commitment to working closely with Washington-foe, President Hugo Chavez – [...]

                                  La Mian is a type of handmade or hand-pulled Chinese noodle. Through a process of stretching and twisting wheat flour, noodle makers can hand pull hundreds, even thousands of beautiful long thin noodles for a variety of dishes. [...]

                            “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure” – English proverb Gabriel Dishaw lives by these words. Taking found objects from old discarded computers and machines, he reassembles various parts to create fantastic sculptures and works of art. In this series, Gabriel [...]

    Certainly one of the more disgusting species I’ve come across, the Cymothoa exigua or Tongue eating louse (louse being singular form of ‘lice’) is a parasitic crustacean that typically grows to 3 or 4 cm in length (1 in – 1.6 in). The parasite attaches itself at the base of a fish’s tongue [...]

Welcome to the Friday Shirk Report where you will find 20 images, 10 articles and 5 videos from the previous week of sifting. Enjoy! 20 IMAGES – Oh Hai! – Hi-res heckler @ Obama speech – Ingenuity will save humanity – Three times the fail – What evil lurks… – The Best Review of Will [...]