Blog Posts by Jordan Chittley

  • Photo of Titanic-sinking iceberg to be sold at auction

    If you want to own a piece of one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history, but don't want to get in a tiny submarine with James Cameron, we have a solution.

    A rare black and white photo of the iceberg that is believed to have taken down the Titanic is being sold by an auction house. They estimate it'll sell for more than $8,000.

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    The 9.75 x 8 photo of the iceberg was photographed by the captain of the Leyland Line steamer S.S. Etonian, two days before the more than 1,500 Titanic passengers and crew lost their lives in the open Atlantic. The caption on the 100-year-old image indicates the exact position of the iceberg.

    While this could be any massive piece of ice, RR Auction writes on their website the berg looks very similar to sketches drawn by Titanic crew. There are no surviving photos of the berg taken from the Titanic's deck. The iceberg in the photograph was spotted about two to three days travel

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  • Ottawa teens make cardboard tank to get drive-thru food

    Wendy's and Harvey's staff like the idea, but the boys didn't get such a great reception at McDonald's

    Anyone who has tried to walk through a drive-thru knows you have to be in a vehicle for them to serve you. But even though four teens from Ottawa don't have driver's licenses, they aren't letting that stop them from getting drive-thru food. The teens created a tank out of cardboard and pushed it through the windows. And it worked - most of the time.

    "Obviously, I know you can't go through on foot but we thought, first of all, that this was a vehicle enough to go through a drive-thru and second of all, that they would appreciate the time that we put into it," said Paul Buzuloiu to the Ottawa Citizen.

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    The total cost of the tank was about $50, which included spending money on wood, nails and paint. The cardboard they got for free from Ikea boxes and the wheels were from an old desk chair. It took the

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  • Lone home stands in middle of road after farmer refuses to move

    The Chinese village demolished the rest of the houses and paved a wide motorway, but didn't divert it around a house

    Luo Baogen, a duck farmer, and his wife refuse to move even if their house will cause headaches for drivers because it is smack-dab in the middle of a brand new Chinese road.

    The five-storey structure looks strange rising from the freshly laid black asphalt, without houses on either side. On the upside, they do have the nicest house on the street.

    The rest of the neighbourhood was demolished to make way for a road heading to a new train station on the outskirts of Wenling in Zhejiang province, but the Lous didn't take the government's offer.

    The owner had just spent about $95,000 to complete the house so when the government approached him with the standard offer of $35,000, he refused. The offer currently stands at $41,000, but Lou isn't moving out.

    "We want a new house on a two-unit lot with simple interior decoration," he told local reporters.

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  • The best of this year’s Black Friday fights at U.S. Walmart stores

    The new Thanksgiving tradition: Give thanks, then try to kill each other at a mall

    U.S. Thanksgiving weekend has to have a few things — lots of food, a parade with massive floats, football, a dog show and some amazing deals.

    So after the first four things are complete, it's time to go see how cheap a flat-screen TV can be. Unfortunately, the best deals go those who are there first and are most aggressive, and this sometimes leads to altercations. So in case you weren't brave enough to drive across the border to hit a Walmart for bargains, a number of YouTube users have filmed what you missed out on. Here's a selection of some of the best videos of what Gawker describes as "Walmart shoppers tearing at store displays like lions shredding an antelope."

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    Here we see Walmart shoppers push and shove for Xbox games that all seem to be in a giant box:

    In this video, which is actually two videos, they violently push

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  • Must-see videos of the week – Nov. 23

    From  people camping for a week to get the best Black Friday shopping deals to a horse walking into a Toronto hotel, we've seen some great videos this week. Here are some of our favourites:

    1. Tiger cubs nursed by dog

    Now here is something you definitely don't see every day, but proves how different kinds of animals can get along. Three orphaned tiger cubs in Russia are getting their milk from an unusual place — a white Swiss Shepherd dog. The cubs were abandoned by their birth mother and Oktyabrsky zoo staff searched for a surrogate tiger mother, but filled the spot with the dog, the the Telegraph reports. The cubs initially hissed at the dog, which looks a lot like the one from the movie The NeverEnding Story, but the mother was patient until the cubs started eating. We also learn from this video that tiger cubs make one of the most annoying sounds in the world. Even more annoying than the sound Lloyd Christmas made in the movie Dumb and Dumber.

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  • Scottish castle can be had for less than an average condo in Toronto

    The 500-year-old Lordscairnie Castle is for sale, but it's not exactly move-in ready

    The price of housing may be dropping slightly across Canada, but it probably won't drop enough for anyone to own their own castle.

    However, for only $350,000 you can now purchase your very own castle in Scotland. And if you're lucky, people will have to refer to you as king or queen. To put things in perspective, the average price of a downtown Toronto condo earlier this year was about $360,000, according to statistics from the Toronto Real Estate Board.

    But when things sound too good to be true they usually are — and that seems to be the case here. If you are thinking of living in it, it may be a bit drafty.

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    Real Estate agents are looking for a buyer for Lordscairnie Castle in Moonzie, Fife, Scotland. It was build around 1495 by Alexander Lindsay, 7th Earl of Crawford, who at the time was the most powerful nobleman in Scotland. It stands five

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  • Utah friends build and jump into ‘world’s biggest pile of leaves’

    These guys in Utah pretty much live out all of my leaf-loving fantasies and make the fall piles I used to rake together look like ant hills.

    First, the three friends rented a truck and drove around Logan, Utah, to find every leaf they could.

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    Then they built what they describe as the world's biggest pile of leaves to have some fun ... the pile is so big they can jump into it from the roof of a two-storey house.

    The video description says the pile is five metres high, 18 metres around and contains more than 1,000 garbage bags full of leaves. Jokingly they say that they got every leaf in Utah, but the number is probably about 10 million — assuming there are 10,000 leaves in each bag.

    Now that's a lot of leaves!

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  • Prince William (Reuters)When pictures showing Prince William as a regular person were posted on the royal couple's new website, they appeared to just show him at work.

    But in the background was sensitive information including usernames and passwords on computer screens that could have lead to a major security breach.

    "A number of photographs of Flight Lieutenant Wales were taken whilst on duty working as a helicopter search and rescue pilot," said a defence spokesman in a statement. "Due to an administrative oversight, these photographs were not properly cleared at RAF Valley. The passwords and user names shown have now been reset as a precaution and we are satisfied the images do no contravene security regulations."

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    The images were taken by a Ministry of Defence photographer and were quickly taken down from the couple's official site, but not before they appeared on news websites, such as the Guardian.

    The images were part of a royal PR initiative to show him

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  • Man creates world's most boring video saying world’s longest word

    The English word has 189,819 letters and takes more than 3.5 hours to pronounce

    This video is so boring it makes waiting in line at to renew your driver's license seem exciting.

    The longest word in the English language is 189,819 letters long and takes more than 3.5 hours to say.

    The word, which is too long for us to write out because you would be scrolling forever, is the chemical name for titin. Also known as connectin, it is the largest known polypeptide in the human body and is important in the contraction of striated muscle tissue.

    The full word can be seen here.

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    Geekologie suggests having a contest with your friends to see who can watch the video the longest without bashing their head on their desk.

    I made it nine minutes before skipping ahead to see if the video is all the same. After about three minutes it all starts to sound the same and from what we can tell the guy doesn't even get up to go to the bathroom or

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  • The CNN host was critical of Weiss' 'dull' tweets as he accuses her of not following the news

    Foodie Pamela Weiss learned the hard way that Anderson Cooper is not the person to mess with on Twitter.

    The CNN reporter was once again in a war zone covering the Israel-Gaza situation from the ground. While it may seem like full-time work to duck rockets and do live hits, Cooper still had time to fire back at a Twitter critic.

    Cooper was in Gaza City live tweeting what is happening, including when rockets are fired from either Gaza or Israel and how the Israel Defense Force dropped leaflets warning people in Gaza to stay away from Hamas. He also had time to tweet about who will co-host his daytime talk show, which has been cancelled.

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    In one tweet he wrote about rockets being fired from a media centre in Gaza that was hit by IDF missiles earlier in the day and Weiss didn't really like that.

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